Building Character with True Stories from Nature [With CDROM]
English
By (author): Barbara A Lewis
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.