https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8 By Molly Hill en-us 2017-04-02 17:55:42 UTC 2025-10-03 06:51:19 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/164184205 Author: Ann Malaspina
Illustrated by: Eric Velasquez
Publication Date: 2011
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: Kindergarten through 3rd grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 600 (Adult directed text)
Brief Teaser: This is the story of a young black girl growing up in the south during the early 1900s with extraordinary athletic ability. Alice Coachman was determined to break away from what society told her to do and do what she loved; the high jump. From high school to the Olympics Alice would indeed "Touch the Sky".
Teaching Idea: In February, celebrate black history month by each day sharing stories of famous African American's who led the way for equality and didn't take no for an answer.

]]> 2017-04-02 18:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/164184205 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/165030395 Author: Ann Malaspina
Illustrated by: Steve James
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1st through 5th grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 690
Brief Teaser: On November 5, 1872 a brave women by the name of Susan B. Anthony voted in the United States Presidential election. She was arrested and found guilty for her crimes. Women were granted the right to vote in 1920 with the courage to stand up for their rights thanks to people like Susan B. Anthony.
Teaching Idea: Run a mock election in your classroom. This can center around the a current election that may be happening in the world, or students can run for positions in your classroom. Get the students excited about voting and learn just how important it is. ]]> 2017-04-06 01:49:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/165030395 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/165031659 Author: Dianne Ochiltree
Illustrated by: Kathleen Kemly
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: 1st through 3rd grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 830 (Adult directed text)
Brief Teaser: This is the story of Molly Williams, who was a cook in NYC and is said to have been the first female firefighter in the United States. Historical records and pictures tell the story of Molly and firefighting in the early 1800s.
Teaching Idea: Take a class trip to the local fire department or have firefighters come to your classroom. Introduce students to the occupation while teaching fire safety and emergency scenarios. Make sure students can call 911 and list their address in case of a fire emergency. ]]> 2017-04-06 02:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/165031659 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166619945 Author: Kristin Levine
Publication Date: 2012
Genre:
Approximate Interest Level: 5th through 8th grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 630
Brief Teaser: 12 year old Marlee is starting school the summer of 1958 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her world is falling to pieces when she meets Liz, who is everything Marlee wants to be. With race and segregation at the forefront of society in the United States, the two will have to face segregation and the danger it means to them and their families.
Teaching Idea: Do a unit on the civil rights movement and talk about important leaders of the time such as Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks. After students spend time learning and researching the civil rights movement read the book The Lions of Little Rock. Have students journal about the young students living like them living through the Civil Rights movement and what they would have done when faced with adversity. ]]> 2017-04-17 19:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166619945 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166621892 Author: Shana Corey
Illustrator: Hadley Hooper
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: Preschool through 3rd grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 720 (Adult directed text)
Brief Teaser: This book tells the story of Juliette Gordon the founder of the Girl Scouts. Her love for the outdoors and adventure coupled with her ancestors passion for service created an organization for young girls that continues to make a difference in the world over 100 years later.
Teaching Idea: Girl scouts is an organization working to make a difference in the world. Share with students that you don't have to be a girl scout to make a difference in the world, boys can too! Create a service learning project with your class. Building a bench for the playground, planting a tree in front of your school, creating a school mural are all great ideas students of all ages can get involved with. The following link discusses service learning projects and why they are important for students: http://character.org/key-topics/service-learning/

]]> 2017-04-17 19:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166621892 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166624822 Author: Steve Light
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: Preschool through 1st grade
Approximate Text Level: (not given)
Brief Teaser: Zephyr loves airplanes, she draws them, makes them and hopes to one day fly them. One day, she finds a magical world full of airplanes, pilots and adventure where she can find her wings.
Teaching Idea: As a science lesson, students can make paper airplanes and go outside to see how far their paper airplanes fly. They can practice measurement and also express creativity with designing their own paper airplane. ]]> 2017-04-17 20:04:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166624822 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166627255 Author: Monica Kulling
Illustrated by: David Parkins
Publication Date: 2011
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: Kindergarten through 4th grade
Approximate Text Level: Lower-middle elementary
Brief Teaser: Margaret Knight was a young girl growing up in the 1850s who unlike like a lot of girls then, liked to make things out of wood. Tragedy struck at the cotton mill and Margaret was inspired to create a device to decrease injuries and was the first of many inventions for her.
Teaching Idea: What better way to spark creativity than inventing something of your own! Through a science lesson students can learn about simple machines (wedge, wheel and axel, inclined plane, lever) and create something of their own like Margaret Knight did in the 1800s. ]]> 2017-04-17 20:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166627255 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166629820 Walt Disney Animated Movie.
Year of Release: 2012
Movie Plot: This movie centers around a young girl from Scotland, named Merida whodefies age old-customs by choosing to not get married as her parents want her to. Merida lives the life she has dreamed of, not that others have dreamed for her.
Teaching Idea:
http://www.teachhub.com/disneys-brave-video-writing-prompts
The following link gives writing prompts for all ages to ponder after watching the movie Brave. So grab your journals and let's write!!

]]> 2017-04-17 20:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166629820 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166629834 Walt Disney Animated Movie.
Based of the Chinese legend Hua Mulan.
Year of Release: 1998
Movie Plot: Mulan is a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to fight in the war in place of her ill father. Girls never fought in battle but Mulan defied gender stereotypes and successfully competed in battle and returned home to her family.
Teaching Idea: Do a lesson on basic Chinese culture and literature such as the tale of Hua Mulan. Have students watch the film and then journal about why they think it was such a courageous act for Mulan to go to battle in place of her father.
The following link details a unit on teaching Chinese civilization in your classroom (grades 1-2).
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/unit-plans/teaching-content/exploring-china/]]> 2017-04-17 20:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166629834 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166630093 Author: Nunzio DeFilippis
Author: Christina Weir
Illustrated by: Jackie Lewis
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Fiction (Graphic Novel)
Approximate Interest Level: 6th through 9th grade
Approximate Text Level: Middle School
Brief Teaser: In this book, Dashiell Brody is a natural softball player. When she moves to a new school she learns that they have a fantastic baseball boys team. Dashiell is on a mission to play on the team and break down gender stereotypes along the way.
Teaching Idea: http://www.teachers.net/gazette/MAR02/slutz.html
The following link shows how baseball can be adapted to work in the classroom for activities like a review game. Review students spelling or math facts with this fun game!]]> 2017-04-17 20:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166630093 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166633713 Artist: Secret Agent 23 Skiddo
Song Message: Don't change yourself, interests or who you are to be someone you are not. Girls don't have to always do what girls are "suppose" to do, always be yourself.
Teaching Idea: Have students journal about who they are. This can be anything from where they come from to religious/cultural backgrounds to their favorite food and activities. Students can form poem and raps and perform them for the class after watching the rap song below.]]> 2017-04-17 21:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166633713 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166647643 Author: Sylvia Branzei
Illustrated by: Melissa Sweet
Publication Date: 2011
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3rd through 6th grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 790
Brief Teaser: A collective book of extraordinary and inspiring women throughout history who defied odds by becoming an astronaut, flying planes and swimming the English channel. The book tells their courageous stories which in many cases defied gender stereotypes.
Teaching Idea: Have students choose one of the stories/women featured in the book. Have students to more in depth research on their chosen person including what they did and why it was so courageous. 

]]> 2017-04-17 23:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166647643 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166649432 Author: Sarah Warren
Illustrated by: Robert Casilla
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Nonfiction
Approximate Interest Level: Kindergarten through 4th grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 520 (Adult directed text)
Brief Teaser: The story centers around Dolores Huerta who is a teacher in a community of poor migrant workers. The book shares her battle to ensure safe and fair conditions for migrant workers like those in her community.
Teaching Idea: Introduce students to the concept of immigration. Many immigrants have tough lives when they get to the United States and live in the poor migrant working community like they do in the book. In the link below there is a lesson plan idea for teaching immigration to students in grades 3-5. Students can also relate immigration to their lives by asking family where they come from.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/teaching-content/immigration-lesson-plan-grades-3-5/

]]> 2017-04-17 23:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166649432 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166650338 Author: Laurie Lower
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner
Publication Date: 2012
Genre: Nonfiction (Biography)
Approximate Interest Level: 3rd through 5th grade
Approximate Text Level: Lexile: 890
Brief Teaser: This book is a biography about the extraordinary life of Rachel Carlson. A woman who was a pioneering environmentalist wrote a book that made the world aware of the negative impact humans are having on the planet.
Teaching Idea: Celebrate Earth Day by reading this book to students. Then, have students research ways that they can help the environment at school and at home. Challenge students to start those "at school" projects by creating a service learning opportunity (possibly plant a tree or pick of trash outside of the school). ]]> 2017-04-18 00:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166650338 mollyjhill3 https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166810742 A Mighty Girl:
"The world's largest collection of books, toys and movies for smart, confident, and courageous girls."
URL: http://www.amightygirl.com/toys/arts-crafts/drawing-painting
Summary of website: This website is a fantastic source of information and ideas to help empower young girls. This includes books, toys, movies, TV shows, clothing, character collections and even a book club students can get involved with.
Teaching idea: Use this website for great music suggestions to play in your classroom and movies for indoor recess or reward days. Don't let these opportunities for media slip through the cracks, promote positivity for young ladies (and gentlemen!) through the resources on this website.]]> 2017-04-18 16:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mollyjhill3/yqxe40zit2f8/wish/166810742