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Book List

Short List – Staff Picks

Across the Curriculum

Alabama Neighbors

Big Screen

Canoeing

Compass Skills

Connections

Creepy Crawlies

Down To Earth

Feathers in Focus

Food For Thought

Forest Critters

High Adventure

Invention Convention

Map Masters

Native Americans and the Earth

Night Hike

Orienteering

Pond and Stream Studies

Refuge

Rock Query

Sense of Place

Sensory Awareness

Songs, Sparks and Stories

Team Adventure/ Team Challenge

Trail of Discovery

Woods Walk/ Value of a Tree

Big Screen

Book

Type

Access

Author

Summary

Concepts

Additional Info

Coyote Places the Stars

PB

M

Harriet Peck Taylor

This re-telling of the Wasco Indian story explains how coyote created constellations by placing the stars in the sky.

Constellations, Native stories

The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System

PB

E

Joanna Cole

Ms. Fizzle takes her school bus full of students on a tour of the Solar system.  They visit the moon and several planets.

Solar System, moon, planets

Also available in Spanish

The Magic School Bus Sees the Stars

PB

M

Joanna Cole

Also available in Spanish

The Magic School Bus Chapter Book #04 Space Explorers

CB

M

Eva Moore

The class takes a trip to mars on the school bus and uses a rock collecting robot.

Planets, Solar System

The Magic School Bus Fact Finder: Space and the Planets

CNF

M

Kris Hirsch-mann

This reference book provides lots of facts about space

Solar system, Milky Way, orbits, seasons

Keepers of the Night

AG

M at univer-sity libraries

Joseph Bruchac and Michael Caduto

Eight Native American stories are coupled with activities focusing on stargazing, nighttime weather, nocturnal animals, sensory awareness games and campfire activities.

Nocturnal animlas, stargazing

   

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