Showing posts with label Elementary School Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elementary School Science. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers /Google Books

Title Squirrels and other fur-bearers
Author John Burroughs
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900
Length 149 pages
Overview

Thursday, October 7, 2010

How to Study Nature in Elementary School/Google Books

Title How to Study Nature in Elementary School: A Flexible Manual for Teachers
Author John Dawson Wilson
Publisher C.W. Bardeen, 1900
Length 63 pages
Overview

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither/Google Books

Title Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither
Author Olive Thorne Miller
Illustrated by Hildibrand, A. Mesnel, Ecosse
Publisher E. P. Dutton & Company, 1880
Length 357 pages
Overview

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Life Histories of American Insects/Google Books

Title Life Histories of American Insects
Author Clarence Moores Weed
Publisher The Macmillan company, 1897
Length 272 pages
Overview

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Child's Zoological Garden/Google Books

Title The Child's Zoological Garden
Published 1881
Pages 262
Overview

Formal and indepth. Written for older children, or as a read aloud.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Leaves and Flowers, or, Plant Studies for Young Readers/Google Books

Title Leaves and Flowers, or, Plant Studies for Young Readers
Author Mary A. Spear
Publisher D.C. Heath & Co., 1893
Length 103 pages
Overview

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Little People and Their Homes in Meadows, Woods and Waters/Google Books

Little people and their homes in meadows, woods and waters
Authors Stella Louise Hook, Daniel Carter Beard, Harry Beard
Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888
Length 228 pages
Overview

Sunday, June 20, 2010

For Playground, Field and Forest: The Outdoor Handy Book‎/Google Books

For playground, field and forest: the outdoor handy book
Author Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1907
Length 496 pages
Overview

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools/Google Books

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools
Author James Monteith
Published 1877
Overview

Richly illustrated, and still useful despite being outdated in places.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Easy Lessons in Popular Science(Science and Geography)/Google Books

Items on maps are numbered, and each area is covered in a chapter section. Designed for use with a multi-grade elementary school class.

Easy lessons in popular science: and handbook to pictorial chart ...
Author James Monteith
Publisher American Book Co., 1879
Length 251 pages
Overview

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Simple Experiments for the School Room/Google Books

Simple experiments for the school-room: that may be made by teachers wholly without previous experience : and adapted to introduce young pupils to a knowledge of elementary science by experimental methods and arouse a spirit of inquiry.
Author John Francis Woodhull
Publisher E.L. Kellogg, 1889
Length 99 pages
Overview

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Nature Myths of Many Lands/Google Books


Nature myths of many lands
Eclectic readings
Author Florence Virginia Farmer
Publisher American Book Co., 1910
Overview

Monday, March 22, 2010

Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin: for Boys and Girls

Neighbors with claws and hoofs, and their kin: for boys and girls
Book 4 of Appleton's instructive reading-books
Book 4 of Natural history series

Author James Johonnot
Publisher American Book Company, 1885
Length 256 pages
Overview

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

The Children's Book of Stars/Google books

The children's book of stars
Author Geraldine Edith Mitton
Publisher Adam and Charles Black, 1908
Length 207 pages
Overview

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The Making of the Body: a Children's Book on Anatomy and Physiology

The making of the body: a children's book on anatomy and physiology : for school and home use
Authors Henrietta Barnett (Dame), Mrs. S. A. Barnett
Publisher Longmans, Green, 1894
Length 288 pages
Overview

Monday, October 12, 2009

Everyday Birds: Elementary Studies


Everyday Birds: Elementary Studies
Author Bradford Torrey
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1901
Length 106 pages

Overview

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Hero Tales from History

Book overview provided by Google Books:
"Here are mighty men of the world and makers of modern American. Some of the men chosen as the heroes of these stories were great figures in world history and were selected because they are among the foremost heroes of our own country and our own culture. Hero Tales from History are told with the thought of the mental development of the children. Each story has a hero, full of action and written in a clear and simple language.The history of the past can never become a vital thing to us or to those whom we teach until the men of the past are live, flesh and blood men."

Hero tales from history
Author Smith Burnham
Edition illustrated
Publisher The John C. Winston company, 1922

Overview here.

Monday, August 31, 2009

The Story Book of Science/Google Books

Click here for overview.

The story-book of science
Authors Jean-Henri Fabre, Florence Constable Bicknell
Translated by Florence Constable Bicknell
Publisher The Century Co., 1917

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Rollo's Experiments/Google Books


Rollo's Experiments
By Jacob Abbott, William Jay Baker, Sheldon & Company (New York, N.Y.)
Illustrated by Frederick M. Coffin
Contributor William Jay Baker, John Andrew, Sheldon & Company, Phillips, Sampson & Company
Published by Sheldon, 1862
180 pages

Main page

Begin reading here.

About third - fourth grade level.