Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Community Workers


Book Description

A community is a lot of people working together to help each other. In school you are learning about all of the things that community workers do to help you. The projects in this book are all about these workers. They include an Apple for the Teacher Pencil Topper, a Mail Carrier Dispenser for Stamps, a Sock-It Away Bank, a Jackhammer Puppet, a Squirting Hose Puppet, and even a pair of play Handcuffs! So get out your scissors and paste and a few household recyclables, and celebrate your community!




Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Dinosaurs


Book Description

The prehistoric age of dinosaurs was a mysterious land of flying, swimming, and running giants. Yet there were also dinosaurs the size of chickens. With this book, the dinosaur kingdom comes to life through creative, low-cost crafts.




Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Weather


Book Description

Make some crafts that will help you learn about weather.




Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Insects


Book Description

Insects are everywhere - crawling in the grass, hiding under rocks, or flying through the air at 35 miles per hour. But even if insects make you squirm, they are a valuable part of our Earth. Some insects eat other insects that damage plants. Others light up summer nights. With this latest book in Kathy Ross's Crafts for Kids Who are Learning About series, you'll find out more about insects while making 22 low-cost or no-cost projects. So come discover a world filled with creeping cockroaches, buzzing bees, and fluttering butterflies!




Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Transportation


Book Description

Hands-on learning fun aimed straight at the first-grade curriculum. Twenty-two crafts introduce transportation modes ranging from a baby carriage to a rocket ship. Among the projects are a Race Car Photo Holder, a Human Bulldozer, a Tissue Box Bus, and a Bead Train Necklace. They are perfect for group classroom projects or just having fun at home.




Crafts for Kids Who Are Learning about Farm Animals


Book Description

Presents step-by-step instructions for creating farm-related items, including a popsicle-stick farmer, a crow finger puppet, and a marionette duck.







The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning


Book Description

Using a conversational voice, the authors provide a foundation as well as a blueprint and tools to craft a community-engaged course. Based on extensive research, the book provides a scope and sequence of information and skills ranging from an introduction to community engagement, to designing, implementing, and assessing a course, to advancing the craft to prepare for promotion and tenure as well as how to become a citizen-scholar and reflective practitioner. An interactive workbook that can be downloaded from Campus Compact accompanies this tool kit with interactive activities that are interspersed throughout the chapters. The book and workbook can be used by individual readers or with a learning community.




Calendar Crafts


Book Description

Here is a crafty collection of creative art projects and simple recipes organized to celebrate each month of the year. From party bags to puppets to pumpkinsthese are fun and easy projects your kids will love to make throughout the year!




Strategies that Work


Book Description

Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.