Lesson 3: Thematic Springboards Part I: Subject Unit Study Ideas
3-8 Resources
Bibliography
***Note: all books and reading assignments are optional and are provided as additional information for the student.
Bendt, Valerie. How to Create Your Own Unit Study. Common Sense Press, 1997.
Bjork, Christina. Linnea in Monet's Garden. R & S Books, 1987
Burton, Virginia Lee. Katy and the Big Snow. Houghton Mifflin Company
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Snow-Storm." http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emers...
Scholastic. Every Teacher's Thematic Booklist
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Long Winter , Little House series.
Wilson, Leslie Linda. "Character Building: the Crown of Your Curriculum" Suite101.com Christian Home Education topic. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/chri...
World Almanac. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2003.
World Almanac. The World Almanac for Kids 2003.
Links
Besides the links below, many of the other resources listed in this section have web URLs as well.
Online Libraries:
University of Virginia E-Text Library
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
American Poems Online Library
http://www.americanpoems.com
Additional Resources Mentioned:
Colonial Williamsburg
http://www.history.org/
The Bible search engine
http://crosswalk.com/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
http://www.nasa.gov/
Hubble Space Telescope http://hubblesite.org
Lagrange points
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_mm/ob_techorb...
The Wonder Number Game
http://www.wondernumber.net/
American Girl Resources
http://www.americangirl.com/
Factmonster's countries of the world almanac
http://www.factmonster.com/countries.html
United Nations
http://www.un.org/
Public Broadcasting Station (PBS)
http://pbs.com
search for Reading Rainbow and other educational subjects.
Home & Garden Television
http://hgtv.com
HGTV programs on arts and crafts including Gardens of the World which visited Monet's fabled gardens.
Barnes and Noble
http://BarnesandNoble.com
or
http://bn.com
Jenny's Gundam Wing Website
http://www.0system.com
