Books from Teacher Created Resources

  • A Guide for Using the Polar Express in the Classroom
    By Susan Kilpatrick

    Teaching literature unit based on the popular children's story, The polar exprress.

  • Connecting Art and Literature
    By Jennifer Thomas

    Provides specific strategies and activities for integrating art and children's literature selections.

  • Plants Thematic Unit
    By Mary Ellen Sterling

    Materials: Craft yarn in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet, paste or glue, scissors, white construction paper Directions: * Cut lengths of yarn—one of each color—for every child. * Direct the child to spread a line of paste ...

  • Focus on Artists
    By Mary Ellen Sterling

    Materials ✦ cornstarch ✦ plastic spoons ✦ plastic lids for palettes ✦ tempera paints ✦ wood craft sticks or plastic knives ✦ cardboard (from a cereal box or other container) Directions 1. Draw students' attention to van Gogh's use ...

  • Colonial America
    By Mary Ellen Sterling

    You may want to do some research to find out exactly how the natives painted their faces. materials: large Styrofoam ball, craft stick, white facial tissue, paper napkins or toilet paper, white household glue, water, pie pan, ...

  • Our Environment
    By Mary Ellen Sterling

    Glue toothpicks or craft sticks on the brown body to make a porcupine . Draw the outline of a monkey or gorilla . Cut out and glue brown corduroy , felt , or corrugated paper to fit on the outline . Add store - bought moveable eyes ...

  • Knights and Castles Thematic Unit
    By Scott T. Walters

    ... Newcomb Rizzo Whitehead Newman Tall Person Whitlock Short Person Lang Whitman Bass Long Wise Basset Longfellow Red hair Hoch happy Person Flynn Kline and Klein Gay Merriman Reed and Reid Short Roth Small Murray Russell Here are some ...

  • Independent Projects Using Microsoft Office and the Web, Grades 6-8
    By Todd M. Toporski

    If you have purchased an e-book Site License, you may duplicate and use only within the school and/or district for which you purchased the License. Editor Sara Connolly Managing Editor Elizabeth Morris, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief Sharon.

  • Reading Skills Mini-Lessons
    By Sara Gruver

    Mr. Humphreys is an excellent store manager because he has had many experiences of working at stores. When Mr. Humphreys was a young boy, he helped his Uncle Ben by sweeping the floor of his small shoe store.

  • Standardized Test Practice for 4th Grade
    By Charles J. Shields

    Frank Baum (B) Labor day (B) L. frank Baum (C) Labor Day (C) L. Frank baum (D) labor Day (D) L. Frank Baum 2 ... Rose Miller (G) Baltimore, maryland (G) Mrs. Rose miller (H) baltimore, maryland (J) baltimore, Maryland (H) mrs. rose ...

  • The Olympic Dream
    By Cynthia Holzschuher

    Krebs, Gary M. (Editor). The Guiness Book of Sports Records. Running Press, 1989. Kristy, Davida. Coubertin's Olympics. Lerner, 1995. Miller, David. Olympic Revolution. Pavilion, 1996. Ryan, Joan. Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The ...

  • The 20th Century
    By Mary Ellen Sterling

    F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “The Jazz Age,” and his short stories and novels captured the essence of the Roaring Twenties. His work reflected the indulgences and excesses of the times, as well as his personal struggles.

  • Teaching Reading in the Middle Grades
    By Susan Abbott

    5. See page 69 of Teacher Created Materials # 288 , Explorers , for additional projects that focus on Leonardo da Vinci . Red Blue Nellow Recommended Reading The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland , Ph.D.

  • Spotlight on America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition and the Louisiana Purchase
    By Robert Smith

    (Superb fictionalized account of the expedition from a dog's point of view) Lasky, Kathryn. ... O'Dell, Scott. Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea. Houghton Mifflin, 1986. ... Simon & Schuster, 1997.

  • Critical Thinking for Multiple Learning Styles
    By Karen M. Streeter

    The first farmer wants to divide her land evenly among her three daughters. Add 4 toothpicks to form three parcels of equal size and identical shape. b. The second farmer wants to divide her land evenly among her 4 daughters.

  • A Guide for Using the War with Grandpa in the Classroom
    By Karen Leiviska

    Robert Kimmel Smith was born on July 31, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of eight, he read his first book, Toby Tyler, which brought tears to his eyes. After that, he always dreamed about being a writer.

  • Journey to Vancouver Grades 1-3
    By Karen McRae

    (page 30) Team Red = 3:50 Team Green = 3:39 Team Blue = 3:44 Team Green had the fastest time. Go for the Gold! (page 31) 1. skiers 2. Creed 3. Canada 4. Bobsleds 5. puck 6. curling Internet Research Sites For more information on the ...

  • Journey to Vancouver Grd 4-6
    By Karen McRae

    Je suis de ́sole ́. zhuh•swee•DAY•zoh•LEY What's your name? Comment vous appelez-vous? KOH•mohn•voo•AH•pe•LAY•voo? How much? Combien? KOHM•bee•en? I don't understand. Je ne comprends pas. ZHUH•nuh•COM•pren•PAH Help!

  • Practice and Learn: 2nd Grade
    By Karen Froloff

    0(pink) 2. 3 (orange) 3. 7 (brown) 4. 1 (blue) 5. 4 (yellow) 6. 8 (white) 7. 2 (red) 8. 5 (green) 9. 9 (gray) 10. 6 (purple) Page 228 a. 5–0 = 5 b. 7–1=6 c. 4–2 = 2 d. 8–3 = 5 e. 4–1=3 f. 10–5 = 5 g. 7–6=1 h. 7– 3 = 4 i. 8– 8 = 0 j.

  • Alphabet
    By Jennifer Overend Prior, Beth A. Miller

    #2614 Thematic Unit–Alphabet © Teacher Created Resources, Inc. 20 Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten. How Do You Get to School? Mike Chris Ben Kyle Susan Amy Joe Billy Megan Erica Justin Jason Robin Jill Casey Erin A is for ...