Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Dewey Decimal System
This lesson introduces the Dewey Decimal System of numbering used for arranging nonfiction books on the shelves of an elementary school library.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Pets: Stuffed Animal Day
This lesson requires students to bring a stuffed animal to school. During the lesson, students will create a class graph and individually author their own nonfiction pet books after conducting research.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Owls
During this instructional activity, students will visit Internet sites to research facts about owls and food chains. They will use this information to complete a picture of an owl food chain, dissect owl pellets, and write a class book...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Stem Literacy
Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...
EL Education
El Education: E Is for Egypt
This book was written and illustrated by sixth grade students at High Tech High Middle School in San Diego, California. As part of a three-month study of Ancient Egypt, students researched topics to feature in this children's alphabet...
EL Education
El Education: Give Bees a Chance
This book was created by 6th grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School as part of a learning expedition on bees and beekeeping. They investigated the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) - a local and national threat to bees,...
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to Insects in Western Massachusetts
This field guide was created by 2nd graders in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was part of a two-month Learning Expedition that included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research, reading from books and...
EL Education
El Education: Access Portland: Resource for Immigrants & Refugees
This resource guide was created by students in Portland, Maine, in an "attempt to make the resources of Portland, ME more easily accessible to new refugees and immigrants." Students met with representatives from local organizations and...
EL Education
El Education: Geology for Kids
4th grade students from the Swift River Elementary School in New Salem, Massachusetts, created this field guide to local geology, featuring "Things to Know" and "Places to Visit", as part of a study of local geology and rocks and...
EL Education
El Education: A Beaver Story
This children's book about beavers was written and illustrated by 6th graders after extensive field research with experts in the field. The book is unique in that it offers a continuous fictional narrative at the top of each page, an...
EL Education
El Education: Adolescence by Adolescents
This "field guide" was created by 7th and 8th grade students in Vergennes, Vermont, as part of a Learning expedition called Adolescent Odyssey and was meant to be a "user's manual" to students' changing bodies. Eighty students did...
EL Education
El Education: Forest Park Zoo
This guide to the animals at the Forest Park Zoo was created by 1st grade students at the Alice B. Beal Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and was part of a Learning expedition on animals. Students, through fieldwork...
Read Works
Read Works: Genre 2nd Grade Unit: Encyclopedias
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the book Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia edited by Jayne Parsons to learn to locate information and find facts about a subject in an encyclopedia. Lesson includes...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Am I? Learning With Biographies
Students often have difficulty differentiating between genres of books in the library media center. During this instructional activity, students learn to identify a biography and understand the types of information included in this...
University of Calgary
The Children's Literature Web Guide
This resource is a children's literature web guide.
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to Local Amphibians
The Field Guide to Local Amphibians was created by 4th graders in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. It was created as one aspect of a three-month Learning Expedition on amphibians. Students collected town data for a statewide amphibian census;...
EL Education
El Education: Insect Bookmarks
These bookmarks were created by 2nd graders at the Alice B. Beal Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts, as part of a two-month Learning expedition on insects. The learning expedition included field observation and collection,...
EL Education
El Education: Insect Cards
These local insect note cards were created by 2nd graders from the Alice B. Beal Elementary Magnet School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The project included field observation and collection, classroom experimentation and research,...
EL Education
El Education: Wisconsin for Kids and by Kids
An online book entitled Wisconsin for Kids and By Kids created by the students of Winnequah Middle School in Monona, Wisconsin that features some famous people, places, and events throughout Wisconsin's history. Original writing and...
EL Education
El Education: Small Acts of Courage
After researching local heroes of the civil rights movement through secondary sources and through primary source interviews, students write biographies of these unsung heroes. The biographies, along with digital photographs, are compiled...
EL Education
El Education: Field Guide to the Aquatic Gardens at Forest Park
3rd grade students in Springfield, Massachusetts created this field guide as part of a learning expedition on ecosystems and pond life. Students did fieldwork in the city park and worked with local experts, closely examining the ponds....
Ohio State University
Ohio State University: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: Reader of the Rocks
A nonfiction article where students read about Julie Codispoti, assistant curator at the United States Polar Rock Repository, located at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center. The article provides an overview of Antarctic...