{"id":256023,"date":"2010-01-31T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2293"},"modified":"2010-01-31T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T15:24:26","slug":"teaching-life-science-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-grrr-a-book-about-big-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/256023","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Life Science With Children\u2019s Literature:  Grrr!  A Book About Big Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/043933408x1.jpg\" title=\"043933408\u00d71.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/043933408x1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"043933408\u00d71.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/043933408x.jpg\" title=\"043933408x.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/043933408x.jpg\" title=\"043933408x.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;And big cats do not purr.\u00a0 They roar!\u00a0 GRRR!&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/bookwizard.scholastic.com\/tbw\/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=3373&amp;\">GRRR!\u00a0 A Book About Big Cats <\/a>is a chapter book all about the various types of big cats.\u00a0 There are chapters on lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and jaguars. \u00a0\u00a0 Each chapter discusses habitat, diet, and other interesting facts about the cats.\u00a0 There are also bolded words and definitions of new vocabulary words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This book could be used in the instruction of the life science to young students (target grade 1-2).\u00a0 It teaches that animals have distinct needs and defining characteristics (1.4.B).\u00a0 It could be nicely tied to a unit on the animal kingdom. It could also coincide with a social studies unit about the continents.\u00a0 Where the animals live could be discussed (ex. lions in Africa).\u00a0 A discussion about animal extinction and protection would also be appropriate when reading this book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This<a href=\"http:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/Animals\/CreatureFeature\/Lion\"> &#8220;creature feature&#8221;\u00a0 <\/a>,provided by National Geographic for Kids,\u00a0 has facts, videos, and photos about lions appropriate for kids.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsplanet.org\/factsheets\/leopard.html\">fact sheet<\/a> about leopards that could be used for research or report writing.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructorweb.com\/les\/jaguars.asp\">teacher&#8217;s website<\/a> contains a lesson plan for teaching about jaguars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bookwizard.scholastic.com\/tbw\/viewWorkDetail.do?workId=3373&amp;\">Grrr!\u00a0 A Book About Big Cats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:\u00a0<\/strong> Melvin and Gilda Berger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Scholastic Inc<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong>2002<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 1-40<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade Range<\/strong>:\u00a0 1-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN:<\/strong>0-439-33408-X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And big cats do not purr.\u00a0 They roar!\u00a0 GRRR!&#8221;\u00a0 GRRR!\u00a0 A Book About Big Cats is a chapter book all about the various types of big cats.\u00a0 There are chapters on lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and jaguars. \u00a0\u00a0 Each chapter discusses habitat, diet, and other interesting facts about the cats.\u00a0 There are also bolded words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256023","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}