Storm in the Night
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Online Units and Resources for Storm in the Night
Literature resources for younger children
A large number of FIAR resource for specific books as well as general resources that can be used with any literature. Includes Elements of a Story Bookmark, World Traveler Passport, Classic Story Timeline, President Chart & President Disks and more. Scroll down for the links to the downloads. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader. (Y,M)
Activities
From TeacherViews.com (Y)
Lapbook Example
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Study Stacks
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Clouds
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Go-alongs about Quilts
American folk art - Students will explore folk art in the United States by studying self-taught artists and their art forms, including quilting, painting, weathervanes
and windmills, and environments sculpted from found objects ("junk"). (Y)
Native American Activities - From LessonPlanspage.com activites for creating Native American Dioramas, homes and quilts. 3rd grade (Y)
Thematic unit on quilts - Basically a list of good resources for a quilting unit. (Y)
Go-alongs about Light
Amelia Earhart - From Surfnetkids.com (Y,M)
Amelia Earhart Game - Famous Kansas Aviator (Y, M, O, T)
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight - From the Virtual Exploration Society (Y,M)
Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer - Online Resources (Y, M, O, T)
Amelia Mary Earhart - Famous Pioneers in Iowa's
Transportation History (Y, M, O, T)
Anatomy of a Hot-Air Balloon - From the Plano Balloon Festival: About Balloons. (Y, M, O, T)
Aviation Unit Study - Fom easyfunschool.com - You can bring in high-interest, hands-on projects for science and art, biographies of famous flyers and inventors, history with studies of evolution of the airplane, and lots more!
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Build your own Flashlight - Energy Education - Helping kids learn about energy (Y,M)
Community Helper The Pilot - Amelia Earhart - From First-school.ws (Y)
FAA Aviation Education Kids Pages - Kids Corner is a fun page for all. It includes activities such as coloring books, word puzzles, and experiments. (Y, M, O, T)
FAA Aviation Education Resource Library - Includes listings of Aviation schools for your future pilot! (Y, M, O, T)
FlashlightNext Sci - From PBS Kids.com (Y)
Flight Lesson Plans/Flight Thematic Units - From the Teacher'sGuide.com (Y,M)
History of Hot-Air Ballooning - It is now more than two hundred years since the first balloon took to the skies. The Montgolfier brothers, two paper makers from the southern French town of Annonay, were intrigued by the way smoke rises above a fire. They decided to capture its lifting powers with small paper and cotton balloons and, while they were mistaken in their faith in the smoke itself (or 'Phlogiston' as it was referred to at the time), they succeeded in creating the world's first hot-air balloon. (Y, M, O, T)
How Hot Air Balloons Work - From How Stuff Works. (Y, M, O, T)
Jline Paper Airplanes - Several paper airplane models as well as tips and a newsletter. (Y, M, O, T)
Legendary Lighthouses - from PBS, learn how lighthouses work (Y, M)
Lift Off - This site is an online quiz about lift in plane flight. (Y)
Light and Shadow Units - A to Z Teacher Stuff (Y)
Light and shadows - Review children's existing understanding of light and dark by helping them to draw a concept map linking their ideas about light, using terms eg light, dark, night, day, light source, seeing, shiny, Sun, Earth, lighting up, sunshine. Discuss children's ideas with them. Grade 3 (Y)
Lighthouse Explorer Database - The database includes information about 1558 lighthouses from all over the world including photographs, history, directions, and contact information. By clicking on the name of the lighthouse, you are presented with more information, including the height, (Y, M, O, T)
Lighthouse page - Assorted links to websites about lighthouses including lesson plans and many facts (Y, M, O)
Lighthouses, A Photographic Journey - Lighthouses are listed alphabetically, or by body of water, or in order of a travel journey taken by the photographers. (Y, M, O)
Meet A Pioneer Pilot - Amelia Earhart - From Teacher.scholastic.com - Early Years
Learning to Fly, Women in Aviation, The WASPs, WW II Experiences, The Ninety-Nines, Remembering Amelia Earhart (Y,M)
More Paper Airplanes - From Surfing the New with Kids; contains time tested models, one that held the Guinness Book record for time aloft (18.8 seconds), an origami kamikaze water flyer, even a paper airplane hangar (Y, M, O, T)
NASA Human Space Flight - Find space station news, realtime data, unusual issues, and a virtual tour of the international space station (Y, M, O, T)
Pictures From Light - Explores bending light; due to the risks of A) starting a fire and B) damaging their eyes, students should be supervised for these activities. (Y,M)
See the Light - Through ThinkQuest a web site devoted to teaching people about light (Y, M, O, T)
Shine On - Why you can't see stars during the day; a Magic School Bus worksheet. (Y)
The Final Hours:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight - From Forneymuseum.com (Y, M, O, T)
Time Warp Trio Lesson Plans - Look down the page for the link to this PDF lesson plan to go with the books. (Y)
Wright Brothers' First Flight - Students of all ages will be able to examine how our world has changed as a result of the Wright Brothers' first powered flight on December 17, 1903. What possibilities will they be able to imagine for the next one hundred years of flight? (Y, M, O, T)
Go-alongs about Senses
American Foundation for the Blind: Helen Keller - Deaf and blind from infancy, Helen Keller played a leading role in most of the significant political, social, and cultural movements of the 20th century. Throughout her lifetime (1880-1968) she worked unceasingly to improve the lives of people who were blind and deaf. (Y, M, O, T)
Audition (Hearing) - Neuroscience for kids (Y)
Come to your senses - Use an online Mr. Potato Head to learn about the senses. (Y,M)
Decibel Levels - From CoolMath4Kids.com (Y, M, O, T)
Ear Anatomy - From Enchanted Learning. (Y)
Eggs filled with sound - Plastic eggs will be filled with various objects and children will need to use their sense of hearing to figure out what is inside. Preschool, K, 1-2 (Y)
HELEN KELLER - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Helen Keller - From Surfing the Net with Kids (Y,M)
Helen Keller Biography - From The Braille Bug (Y,M)
Helen Keller Birthplace - Ivy Green is the birthplace of Helen Keller. "The map shows you around Tuscumbia, Alabama and the local area... There is something spiritually uplifting about touching the actual well-pump where Anne Sullivan reached into the dark silent world of young Helen Keller's mind and opened the window of communication." (Y, M, O, T)
Helen Keller Kids Museum Online - An interactive virtual experience from the American Foundation for the Blind (Y,M)
Helen Keller Unit Study - From Garden of Praise (Y,M)
Let Us Have Faith by Helen Keller - From MyHero.com (Y,M)
Our 5 senses - Hands on activities for teaching the 5 senses (Y)
Senses - from BrainPop (Y,M)
Senses, The Five - Kindergarten Unit (Y)
Sight (Vision) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers vision lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Smell (Olfaction) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Olfaction lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Stick out your tongue and say "aah" - from Kids' Health, lots of info about the tongue and taste (Y,M)
Taste (Gustation) - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers gustation lesson plans for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Teaching children about the five senses - from the Illinois Extension office, lessons for teaching the senses (Y)
The Incredible Human Body: The Five Senses - Designed for a group, but contains good questions to spark discussion. Lessons fore different age levels. (Y, M, O, T)
The Life of Helen Keller - About the life of Helen Keller, the deafblind woman who became a role model for millions of people (Y, M, O, T)
The Senses Working Together - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12 (Y, M, O, T)
Touch Experiments - From Neuroscience for Kids, offers Touch Experiments for grades K-12. (Y, M, O, T)
Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: The Life of Helen Keller - This lesson will teach students a little about the life of this great woman as well as how to appreciate those who face disabilities similar to what Helen faced. (Y)
We need all five senses - uses experiments to show our need for the senses (Y)
Go-alongs about Weather
EasyFunSchool Weather Unit - Activity, ideas, resources, and many links to weather websites (Y, M, O, T)
Making paper Snowflake - (Y)
Snow Flakes - hexagonal symmetry - (Y, M, O, T)
Weather watch - in-depth teaching resources from Scholastic.com (Y, M, O, T)
Weather Wiz Kids® - Hi everybody! I’m Meteorologist Crystal Wicker . I'm a television meteorologist for the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. I designed this website especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather. It’s also a wonderful educational website for teachers and parents that gives them the right tools they need to explain the different types of weather to children. (Y)