IdeaShare
Take an idea. Leave an idea.
Have a great idea for a lesson? Share your tips, links, photos, or experiences to inspire other parents!
Books to Read - posted from El Cajon, CA
I didn’t do a lot of new books here because we just covered pollution, recycling and repurposing so thoroughly last month and read a ton of books about it then.
For Activity 1:
Dams (Engineering Super Structures) by Elsie Olson (grades 1-2)
A Dam Holds Back by Sikkens, Crystal (ages 7-10)
The Hoover dam by Jeffrey Zuehlke
Champ of Hoover Dam by Alexandra Behr
The Dam by David Almond
Let’s Build a Dam by Daniel Fehr
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Paticia Polocco - in this story, a dam is made of books to keep the townspeople from watching TV - not quite on topic, but fun!
For Activity 2:
Beans on Toast by Paul Dowling (how canned beans are made)
From Corn to Cereal by Robert Basel
From Sheep to Sweater by Robin Nelson
From farm to fork - posted from ,
A series of short videos from Tesco about food production
How it's made - posted from Turtle Creek, PA
When we were looking at how some of the ingredients were made in our products, we enjoyed these two videos on sugar production, one about sugar cane and one about sugar beets since we couldn't tell by our label what the source of our sugar was.
Sugar beets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRmJQoI-xU