News from the Curriculum Resource Center

Using literature in the classroom is a wonderful way to reach students in all grade levels.  We’ve just added seven new teacher’s guides for the following titles:

Because of Winn-Dixie Holes

The Great Kapok Tree Maniac Magee

To Kill a Mockingbird

A Year Down Yonder

The Watson’s Go to Birmingham- 1964

Give your students a close up look at real-life specimens encased in unbreakable acrylic with handy labels.  Our four sets include:

Insects & Spiders - tarantula, house spider, wasp and beetle

Parts of a Plant - inside a seed, roots, leaves, flower

Life Cycle of a Frog- eggs & tadpole, two-legged frog, froglet, adult frog

Sea Life - tiger barb fish, fiddler crab, seahorse, octopus

We are happy to announce the addition of new math teaching aids to our collection. Click on the title to check availability. 
Math Dice Tub                                      Hands-On Decimal Cubes

The Allowance Game                                     Fraction Flip Chart

Student Decimal Boards                              Addition Unplugged

Subtraction Unplugged                      Multiplication Unplugged

Division Unplugged

Prosek, James.  Bird, Butterfly, Eel. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.  2009.  Ages 5 to 10.

James Prosek introduces children to migration with rich watercolor illustrations in Bird, Butterfly, Eel.  Starting from the same New England farm, Prosek interweaves the stories of these three migratory species as they make their way to Argentina, Mexico and the Sargasso Sea.  The simple language is complemented by Prosek’s realistic paintings that allow even the youngest listeners to follow the action.  A two page spread at the end of the book clarifies the facts of the … Continue Reading

Young adult titles in the Choose to Read Ohio statewide reading program are listed below.  Read along!

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

Deadline by Chris Crutcher

After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson

The Death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Community-wide reading programs are popular.  This summer Choose to Read Ohio, a project of the State Library of Ohio, encourages Ohioans to participate in a state-wide reading program.  We at the CRC think this is a wonderful idea and have the children’s titles available for check out.  Check out these great books:

Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Journey That Saved Curious George by Louise Borden

Trouble Don’t Last by Shelley Pearsall

Where the Steps Were by Andrea … Continue Reading

Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com

The  Ohio Resource Center, an online site that hosts a  fabulous collection of standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities, offers twenty-six online tutorial lessons designed to help students review high school mathematics topics. The topics are basic to student success in post-secondary science, computer science, and engineering courses.