PreK-5 Collection by Karlee Whitesell

Social Studies

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:15:49 UTC

African Town is a story about the last survivors from the transatlantic slave trade and would be geared towards upper elementary students to teach them about this period in history.

Social Studies

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:18:59 UTC

This is a picture book biography that can be used to teach students about this poet's life in a lyrical way that utilizes poetry within the biography.

Social Studies

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:22:07 UTC

This graphic novel teaches students about the arms race and the creation of the atomic bomb and would be used with upper elementary students.

Science/Health

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:27:08 UTC

This children's book is comprised of first hand journal entries and can be used when teaching children about habitats and how penguins communicate.

Social Studies

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:33:16 UTC

This informational text uses poetry to show how one man improved the literacy and writing systems of his people and can be used to show students the importance of being literate.

Social Studies

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:35:40 UTC

This graphic novel can be used in the classroom when going through a career unit with the students to showcase the life of a ballerina.

Science/Health

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:43:57 UTC

This book can be used to teach children about body and regulatory systems in an interactive way by moving flaps to discover the human body.

Science/Health

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:49:19 UTC

This poetry collection can be used when teaching students about insects and worms in an unique fashion that can draw the attention of many younger students.

Science/Health

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:54:27 UTC

This picture book can be used in the class to encourage female's to enter male dominated fields and to normalize female scientists.

Science/Health

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 17:58:17 UTC

This book is geared towards younger students and will introduce them to the idea of DNA and why it's important for living things to have DNA.

Art/Music

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 18:36:32 UTC

This book utilizes sounds and is geared towards preschoolers and in the classroom, I would assign hand motions to certain sounds to get kids moving in the classroom.

Art/Music

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 18:42:51 UTC

I would utilize this book with Pre-K-1st graders when teaching rhyme in the classroom to get students engaged in the topic.

Art/Music

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 18:48:30 UTC

This children's book utilizes a patchwork elephant in an artistic fashion to teach students to be their own selves and I would teach this to lower elementary students.

Art/Music

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 18:50:46 UTC

This book utilizes rhyme and demonstration to teach children about Vincent Van Gogh's work and I would read this book to students in lower elementary to teach them about this famous artist.

Art/Music

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 18:54:32 UTC

This picture book can be used to teach children to be their own individuals and brightly painted fish are used to relay this message to lower and middle elementary students.

Math

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 18:58:07 UTC

This children's book uses math in relation to the stars to tell about the trillions of stars, but that there is only one "you" and this is something I would use with upper elementary students to show them how unique each one of them are.

Math

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 19:00:25 UTC

Math concepts such as counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and subtracting by 10s are discussed and I would use this book with K-2 grade students to introduce them to these math concepts.

Math

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 19:06:28 UTC

This children's book would be used in a Pre-K classroom to introduce the idea of number concepts and I could read this book to the students and then model the food concepts presented by adding food items to a basket and taking them away.

Math

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 19:09:46 UTC

This book directly aligns to a fourth grade math standard about geometry and in my classroom, I would use this book to teach symmetry and visually show students what symmetry looks like.

Math

karleewhitesell — 2024-01-26 21:01:02 UTC

This picture book geared towards Pre-K and Kindergarten grades that talks about measuring, but uses the scale of marine animals to suggest the actual size of items and is a way to introduce measurement to students in a way that they can understand.