{"id":249741,"date":"2010-01-29T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2282"},"modified":"2010-01-29T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T22:05:23","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-tell-me-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/249741","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science with Children\u2019s Literature: Tell Me, Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2282\/life-science-tell-me-treejpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2283\" title=\"life-science-tell-me-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/life-science-tell-me-tree.jpg\" alt=\"life-science-tell-me-tree.jpg\" width=\"308\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tell-Me-Tree-About-Trees\/dp\/0316309036\" title=\"Tell Me, Tree\">Tell Me, Tree<\/a><\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gailgibbons.com\/\" title=\"Gail Gibbons\">Gail Gibbons<\/a>, presents a close-up look for children at many important characteristics, purposes, and behavioral traits of trees.\u00a0 Gibbons exposes readers to an abundance of different types of individual trees, as well as the parts, functions, and growth methods of a trees in general.\u00a0 She even touches on photosynthesis and how trees are helpful to humans, animals, and the environment.\u00a0 Each page begins with, &#8220;tell me, tree,&#8221; and is followed by an insightful explanation about a various aspect of trees.\u00a0 For example, page seven reads, &#8220;tell me more, tree&#8221; and is followed with an illustration of the inside of a tree trunk, whereby stating that underneath the bark is a thin layer called phloem, that carries food from leaves to the branches, roots, and trunk.\u00a0 Gibbons completes this vividly colorful, instructional book with directions for children to create their very own tree identification book.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book is perfect as an instructional tool in the classroom due to the over-sized, dramatic images that are labeled in detailed and easy to understand.\u00a0 It can also be used as a reference source, or even a dictionary, for children when completing experiments, projects, or in-class work that focuses on plant life.\u00a0 The book helps readers to see the importance of trees in everyday life as children in the book are seen observing, using, and appreciating trees and plants.\u00a0 In thoroughly highlighting plant life, plant characteristics, and photosynthesis,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tell-Me-Tree-About-Trees\/dp\/0316309036\" title=\"Tell Me, Tree\"><em>Tell Me, Tree<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>works in direct correlation with Virginia Life Science Standards of Learning LS.4 (a), LS.5 (b) and LS.6 (a-c).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myschoolhouse.com\/courses\/O\/1\/35.asp\" title=\"Photosynthesis Lesson\">Photosynthesis Lesson<\/a>\u00a0 is a great online tutorial for kids, giving them the opportunity to read text and fill in the blanks to test knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Children can use this <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.wi.gov\/org\/caer\/ce\/eek\/veg\/treekey\/index.htm\" title=\"interactive tree key\">interactive tree key<\/a> to better understand how to identify trees.<\/p>\n<p>Children can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/mgonline.com\/articles\/experimentsforkids.aspx\" title=\"this page\">this page<\/a> to find exciting plant experiments they can easily conduct to discover interesting facts about plants.<\/p>\n<p>Book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tell-Me-Tree-About-Trees\/dp\/0316309036\" title=\"Tell Me, Tree\"><em>Tell Me, Tree<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gailgibbons.com\/\" title=\"Gail Gibbons\">Gail Gibbons<\/a><br \/>\nIllustrator: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gailgibbons.com\/\" title=\"Gail Gibbons\">Gail Gibbons<\/a><br \/>\nPublisher: Little, Brown and Company<br \/>\nPublication Date: 2002<br \/>\nPages: 30 pages<br \/>\nGrade Range: Recommended K-3<br \/>\nISBN: 0-316-30903-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Me, Tree, by Gail Gibbons, presents a close-up look for children at many important characteristics, purposes, and behavioral traits of trees.\u00a0 Gibbons exposes readers to an abundance of different types of individual trees, as well as the parts, functions, and growth methods of a trees in general.\u00a0 She even touches on photosynthesis and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}