School Resources
This is a list of Publications and Internet Resources to help make your visit a wonderful experience!
Ohio Academic Content Standards: Bridges to Our Community
Language Arts
Communication: Oral and Visual
- Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.
- Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.
- Follow multi-step directions.
Research
- Generate questions for investigation and gather information from a variety of sources.
- Retell important details and findings.
Social Studies
Economics
- Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy their wants.
- Distinguish between goods and services and explain how people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services.
- Explain ways that people may obtain goods and services.
Mathematics
Number, Number Sense and Operations
- Determine the value of a collection of coins and dollar bills.
- Count using numerals and ordinal numbers.
Data Analysis and Probability
- Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.
- Sort and classify objects by attributes, and organize data into categories in a simple table or chart.
- Represent data using objects, picture graphs and bar graphs.
- Describe the probability of chance events as more, less or equally likely to occur.
Ohio Academic Content Standards: Splish! Splash!
Language Arts
Communication: Oral and Visual
- Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.
- Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.
- Follow multi-step directions.
Research
- Generate questions for investigation and gather information from a variety of sources.
- Retell important details and findings.
Social Studies
Geography
- Identify the location of the state of Ohio, the United States, the continents and oceans on maps, globes and other geographic representations.
- Identify physical and human features of places.
- Explain how environmental processes influence human activity and ways humans depend on and adapt to the environment.
Economics
- Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy their wants.
Science
Earth and Space
- Observe, describe and measure changes in the weather, both long and short term.
Mathematics
Data Analysis and Probability
- Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.
BRIDGES TO OUR COMMUNITY
PUBLICATIONS:
On the Town: A Community Adventure by Judith Caseley
Only One Neighborhood by Marc Harshman
Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney
Matthew and the Midnight Money Van by Allen Morgan
Argo You Lucky Dog by Maggie Smith
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
The Penny Pot by Stuart J. Murphy
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
~ PRESCHOOL ~
SUGGESTED COMPANION PUBLICATIONS and WEBSITES
PUBLICATIONS:
Look What I See! Where Can I Be? In the Neighborhood by Dia L. Michels
My Town by Rebecca Treays
Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells
Max’s Money by Ken Wilson-max
My Little Penny Book and Bank by Betty Schwartz
How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? by Iza Trapani
Sheep in a Shop by Nancy E. Shaw
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business by Esphyr Slobodkina
Emeka’s Gift by Ifeoma Onyefulu
Bebe Goes Shopping by Susan Middleton Elya
A Job for Wittilda by Caralyn Buehner
INTERNET RESOURCES:
Junior Achievement Dollars and Sense
www.ja.org/programs/programs_elem_dollars_sense.shtml
The Money Mammals
www.themoneymammals.com
http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=190
http://www.prekinders.com/communityunit.htm
~ KINDERGARTEN ~
SUGGESTED COMPANION PUBLICATIONS and WEBSITES
INTERNET RESOURCES:
Junior Achievement Dollars and Sense
www.ja.org/programs/programs_elem_dollars_sense.shtml
The Money Mammals
www.themoneymammals.com
The Money Camp
http://www.creativewealthintl.org/
Learning Center and Money Museum
http://www.clevelandfed.org/LearningCenter/Index.cfm
http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=190
SPLISH! SPLASH!
PUBLICATIONS:
The Drop Goes Plop: A First Look at the Water Cycle by Sam Godwin
Rain Rain Rivers by Uri Shulevitz (Illustrator)
Let’s Save Water! by Sara Elizabeth Nelson (Author)
INTERNET RESOURCES:
Water Cycle Activities
http://www.first-school.ws/activities/science/drippy.htm
Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
http://www.neorsd.org/
Environmental Protection Agency Kids Page
http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/waterkids/kids.cfm
National Geographic: Can we keep the lake clean?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/gk2/clean.html
~ FIRST GRADE ~
SUGGESTED COMPANION PUBLICATIONS and WEBSITES
INTERNET RESOURCES:
Junior Achievement Dollars and Sense
www.ja.org/programs/programs_elem_dollars_sense.shtml
The Money Mammals
www.themoneymammals.com
The Money Camp
http://www.creativewealthintl.org/
Learning Center and Money Museum
http://www.clevelandfed.org/LearningCenter/Index.cfm
http://www.kinderplans.com/content.cfm?pageid=190
SPLISH! SPLASH!
PUBLICATIONS:
Re-Cycles by Michael Elsohn Ross
The Drop Goes Plop: A First Look at the Water Cycle by Sam Godwin
The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A Book About The Water Cycle by Pat Relf
Hydro’s Adventure Through the Water Cycle by Randi S. Goodrich
Let’s Save Water! by Sara Elizabeth Nelson
Who Keeps the Water Clean? : Ms. Schindler! by Jill D. Duvall
INTERNET RESOURCES:
Water Cycle Activities
http://www.first-school.ws/activities/science/drippy.htm
Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
http://www.neorsd.org/
Environmental Protection Agency Kids Page
http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/waterkids/kids.cfm
National Geographic: Can we keep the lake clean?
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/gk2/clean.html
Community Helpers – eThemes
http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1547?locale=en
