Science and Literacy

In progress:
So much to keep track of:

http://www.planet-science.com/under11s/index.html

Coloring pages/minibooks with short English explanations:
http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/index.htm
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/index.html (life cycles)
http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/cartoons/zoo.html (cartoons etc.)
http://www.dltk-teach.com/index.htm

Animal Classification (wonderful resource - easy to read)
http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/jas/pod2/animals/
http://www.brunswick.k12.me.us/technology/integrator/elementary/teachersites/integration/science/index.htm

Recommendations from Open Wide Look Inside blog
**http://blog.richmond.edu/openwidelookinside/archives/category/science
**Spectacular Science: A Book of Poems.
**Scien-Trickery: Riddles in Science by J. Patrick Lewis
**Science Verse
**The Who Lives Here? series, written by Deborah Hodge and illustrated by Pat Stephens, examines animals in their natural environments and explains how those animals are uniquely adapted to their habitats. The books are organized by habitat, and include titles on Desert Animals, Polar Animals, Rain Forest Animals and Wetland Animals.
**Looking Closely from Kids Can Press uses this type of visual puzzle as an introduction to natural environments.
**Magic School Bus books
**You Can’t Smell a Flower with Your Ear!
**Vicki Cobb books such as Perk Up Your Ears
**Neil Ardley has written a book entitled The Science Book of the Senses that offers fun and simple experiments you can do to learn more about how your five senses work.
**In The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination, Jimmy Liao tells a story that makes us realize what we do have, while also making us think once again on expanding our imagination even more.