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Monday, January 25th, 2010Eric Dunsey, School Outreach Coordinator
of the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality
This uses Stars Beneath Your Bed.
Posts Tagged ‘dust’
If I Were a Dust Particle . . . More from Indian Hill Elementary!
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Here are some more great educational ideas from Indian Hill Elementary in Cincinnati, Ohio. These are from a school visit week in Feb, 2009. The first ones extend STARS BENEATH YOUR BED: THE SURPRISING STORY OF DUST.
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- A student imagines where dust goes!
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- Students imagine fiction based on Stars Beneath Your Bed
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- Each classroom had a welcome board outside the door with that day’s special message to students.
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- I visited with so many great educators at Indian Ridge. This teacher had her students write buggy poems. For another project they made masks related to the characters in books.
Dust off a book: physical science storytime!
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Let’s begin our physical science storytime. Physical science studies the non-living world around us: air, water, wind, rock, minerals, glaciers, all sorts of things. But these non-living parts of our world also play a big part in our lives, and other animals’ lives, too. So, we’ll begin with an animal you might have seen…vultures! (more…)
Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust
Saturday, August 27th, 2005This nonfiction book weaves together stars, sunsets, comets, meteors, dust, dinosaurs, daily activities and even, in a small way, Martin Luther King. Read this book and think big about very small things. Learn how bits of all of us and all that we do help create the colors of the sunset. (more…)
April Pulley Sayre is a photo-illustrator and award-winning author of over 65 books including Bloom Boom, Warbler Wave, Full of Fall, and Thank You, Earth. Her read aloud picture books, known for their lyricism, playful voice, and scientific precision, have been translated into Korean, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic. Sayre’s ten photo-illustrated books include the classic Rah, Rah, Radishes and Raindrops Roll, which was both an ALA Notable and a NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Best in Snow received four starred reviews and was on many 2016 best book lists. 
