This flexible resource combines character education with analogies to powerful stories from nature. The heart of each of the books twenty-five lessons is an engaging story, written to kids, describing a particular animal or plant and its distinctive qualities. Busy classroom teachers will like this books accessibility and flexibility. Kids can read a story individually or in groups, or follow along as the teacher reads it aloud.
Accompanying each story, teachers will find several activitiesmost of them quick, easy, and requiring few suppliesthat further investigate animals or plants and the connections between their qualities and human behaviors. Every lesson examines several main character traits, providing starting points and sample questions for discussing and exploring analogies between events in nature and human acts of character. Features include a chart cross-referencing lessons to specific character traits and a list of further resources.
Digital content contains all of the books reproducible forms, including a color photo of each plant and animal, plus a complete bonus lesson.
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Engaging stories, character connections, and high-level thinking make a powerful combination in this resource, which will be enjoyed by teachers as well as children.Julia Roberts, Ed.D., executive director, The Center for Gifted Studies, Western Kentucky University Creatively weds character education with analogies from nature to help teachers promote both deep learning and positive character development in students . . . this synergy is just what education should be.Marvin W. Berkowitz, Ph.D., director, Sanford N. McDonnell Leadership Academy for Character Education for School Principals Barbara Lewis weaves factual information with down-to-earth, applicable activities and discussions to encourage students appreciation for nature, while building their power to observe and to understand people and their world as multidimensional. Throughout, Lewis is respectful of childrens capacity to discuss important issues and form their own opinions.Silvia Blitzer Golombek, Ph.D., senior vice president, Youth Service America
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Creating Good Habits in the Brain |
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Learning Through Analogies |
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Building Positive Character Habits with Analogies |
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Why Use True Stories from Nature? |
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Making Analogies Work for You |
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Character-Building Activities |
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Character Key Word Reference Chart |
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Getting Started with Analogies |
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Box Jellyfish-Beautiful but Deadly |
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Lesson 4 Bristlecone Pine Trees |
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Tough Bristlecone Pine Trees |
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Where Do Bristlecone Pines Grow? |
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The Not-So-Cuddly Cuttlefish |
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Lesson 16 Metalmark Moths |
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Pretty, Poisonous Oleanders |
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Lesson 21 Quaking Aspen Trees |
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Lesson 26 The Forces of Nature |
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Note: Photos of each plant and animal are included on the CD-ROM |
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| Character Key Word Glossary |
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| About the Author |
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Barbara A. Lewis is a national award-winning author and educator who teaches kids how to think and solve real problems. Her students at Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah, initiated the cleanup of hazardous waste, improved sidewalks, planted thousands of trees, and fought crime. They instigated and pushed through several state laws and an amendment to a national law, garnering ten national awards, including two Presidents Environmental Youth Awards, the Arbor Day Award, the Renew America Award, and Pledge and a Promise Environmental Award. They have also been recognized in the Congressional Record three times.
Barbara has been featured in/on many national newspapers, magazines, and news programs, including Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Family Circle, CBS This Morning, CBS World News, and CNN. She has also written many articles and short stories for national magazines. Her books for Free Spirit PublishingWhat Do You Stand For? For Kids, What Do You Stand For? For Teens, The Kids Guide to Social Action, Kids with Courage, The Kids Guide to Service Projects, The Teen Guide to Global Action, and The Survival Guide for Teachers of Gifted Kidshave won Parentings Reading Magic Award and been named Best of the Best for Children by the American Library Association, among other honors.
Barbara has lived in Indiana, New Jersey, Switzerland, Belgium, Utah, and Poland. She and her husband, Larry, currently reside in Park City, Utah. They have four children: Mike, Andrea, Chris, and Sam, ten perfect grandchildren, and a forest of shy deer, a bold moose, busy squirrels, and feathered friends.
