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Teacher Resource Bundle: The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives
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This bundle includes the following:
- The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives
- The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives Teacher's Guide
About The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives
The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives shows how plants and animals interact and adapt themselves to the river. It shows how living things depend on non-living things, such as water, light, sand and gravel. Young children will take delight in discovering that black cottonwood trees thrive in damp riverbanks, belted kingfishers dive into rivers after fish, quartz in river sandstone is harder than a knife blade, and bears beat paths to waterfalls to catch salmon. The book also presents examples of river fossils, First Nations' uses of river life and the ways people harm and help the river.
About the Teacher's Guide
The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives Teacher's Guide provides excellent support materials to meet the national Life Science learning outcomes for the development of skills and the acquisition of knowledge. The guide facilitates the integrative teaching of Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
Each guide for the books in the Nature Detective Series includes:
- activities integrating themes across the curriculum (Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Art)
- hands-on activities
- reproducible blackline masters
- suggested assessment strategies and tools
- references and annotated resource list of related titles
- links to appropriate WWW sites
About the Nature Detective Series
The Nature Detectives Series is a set of five books. Each book introduces children to one of five fascinating ecosystems designed to address the grades 2 to 4 learning standards in the BC Science curriculum.
Written by award-winning BC author Diane Swanson, the Nature Detectives Series tells the stories of groups of adventurous nature detectives as they discover the life in five ecosystems: forest, seashore, wetland, grassland, and river. These fact-filled books provide primary teachers with a language-based resource from which Science and Language Arts can be extended across the curriculum.
Each book introduces children to one of five fascinating ecosystems. The books show how plants and animals interact and adapt themselves to their environment. They show how living things depend on non-living things, such as water, light, and soil. The books also present examples of fossil life, Indigenous peoples’ uses of plants and animals in each ecosystem, and the ways people harm — and help — ecosystems. By the end of each book, readers will have a new appreciation for an important ecosystem.
Each text includes a glossary, index, and information about:
- the diversity of plants and animals in an ecosystem
- how plants and animals have adapted themselves to their environment
- how plants and animals interact with each other
- the life cycles of specific plants and animals
- fossil records of plants and animals
- the causes and effects of extinction and endangerment of plants and animals
- Indigenous peoples’ uses of plants and animals
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Resource
Synopsis:
The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives shows how plants and animals interact and adapt themselves to the river. It shows how living things depend on non-living things, such as water, light, sand and gravel. Young children will take delight in discovering that;
Black cottonwood trees thrive in damp riverbanks.
Belted kingfishers dive into rivers after fish.
Quartz in river sandstone is harder than a knife blade.
Bears beat paths to waterfalls to catch salmon.
The book also presents examples of river fossils, First Nations' uses of river life and the ways people harm and help the river.
Educator & Series Information
This book is part of The Nature Detectives Series.
Teacher's Guide
Synopsis:
The Kingfisher Camp River Detectives Teacher's Guide provides excellent support materials to meet the national Life Science learning outcomes for the development of skills and the acquisition of knowledge. The guide facilitates the integrative teaching of Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies.
This guide includes:
- activities integrating themes across the curriculum (Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Art)
- hands-on activities
- reproducible blackline masters
- suggested assessment strategies and tools
- references and annotated resource list of related titles
- links to appropriate WWW sites
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