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Shaping Up

Suzanne I. Barchers (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393419

This engaging title shows children two-dimensional shapes typically found in a school. Find circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares! Young readers will also be introduced to the concept of equality through early STEM concepts by adding triangles into a square. This book encourages readers to think about geometry at their own schools, making finding shapes fun and easy with familiar images, engaging practice problems, and helpful mathematical diagrams.

Looking for Shapes

Suzanne I. Barchers (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393402

Find shapes all around the globe! This book takes young readers to various cities around the world to encourage them to practice geometry through early STEM themes and find two-dimensional shapes everywhere they go. Go to Paris to find circles in clocks! Go to Chicago to find rectangles in skyscrapers! Children will find these, triangles, parallel lines, and more in this engaging reader.

Music Around the World

Char Benjamin (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393389

Practice finding patterns while learning about music around the world! Many different musical instruments use patterns to make different sounds into rhythms, such as tambourines, drums, and flutes. This charming text uses vibrant images, engaging practice questions, and helpful mathematical diagrams to help young readers understand patterns and early STEM themes. Children will have fun discovering patterns that these instruments make and learning how to make patterns of their own with homemade instruments!

A Year in Our Lives

Dawson J. Hunt (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393426

Follow the story of two pen pals to learn about time measurement and the months of the year! This charming title teaches children about time, analog and digital clocks, and early STEM themes by telling the story of what happened to these two pen pals during each month of the year. Make time measurement fun and easy with vibrant images, practice problems, and this exciting story!

A Day in Our Lives

Dawson J. Hunt (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433393433

Follow a day in the life of two children from different cities! This entertaining title encourages young readers to practice time measurement skills and early STEM themes, like reading analog and digital clocks. Familiar images and fun practice problems will have young readers thinking about how they can measure time throughout a day in their own lives!

Community Leaders Then and Now

Christina Hill, Torrey Maloof (authors)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390463

Community leaders guide people and help them in times of trouble. They are role models, such as school principals, mayors, and Red Cross volunteers and often teach and help with charities. As the needs of people change, so do the jobs of community leaders.

Government Leaders Then and Now

Lisa Zamosky (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9780743993869

Government leaders help to govern our country, our states, and our cities. They make important decisions, solve problems, and see that laws are enforced. The people they serve elect most government officials. Long ago, there were not as many government officials as there are today because the United States had a smaller population.

Bank Tellers Then and Now

Lisa Zamosky (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390449

Bank tellers help people take care of their money. Long ago, bank tellers did most of their work by hand. Today, computers make their work faster and easier. There are even machines called Automatic Teller Machines, or ATMs. Although convenient, ATMs cannot replace bank tellers.

Store Clerks Then and Now

Lisa Zamosky

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9780743993845

Store clerks help people shop. Many years ago, stores were smaller and store clerks had to perform most of the jobs in the store. Today, stores are larger and usually employ several store clerks to help. Store clerks today must know how to use computers to do their jobs.

Writers Then and Now

Kathleen C. Null Petersen (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390418

Throughout history, people have recorded ideas and important events in their lives and communities. Methods of writing have changed greatly over the years. Today, computers make a writer's job much easier and enable people to write and publish more material than ever before.

Postal Workers Then and Now

Cathy Mackey Davis (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9780743993814

Long ago, it often took weeks for postal workers to deliver mail to people who lived far away. Today, mail is transported quickly by trucks and airplanes, and it usually reaches its destination in a few days. Postal workers deliver mail directly to homes, businesses, and mailboxes.

Theater Actors Then and Now

Kathleen C. Null Petersen (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9780743993791

Actors have entertained audiences for thousands of years. In the past, plays were performed both to entertain and to teach. Today, plays involve the use of lighting, sound systems, and elaborate sets and often have large casts that include many actors.

Librarians Then and Now

Roben Alarcon (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390371

Librarians lend and take care of books. Many years ago, the job of a librarian was simpler because librarians only took care of a few books and libraries were small. Most libraries today contain many books, magazines, computers, and other media equipment. Librarians today help people find information and show them new ways to find it.

Farmers Then and Now

Lisa Zamosky (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390388

Farmers are important because they grow the food that people eat. Modern equipment enables farmers to grow more food for an ever-increasing world population.

Fishers Then and Now

Lisa Zamosky

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390395

Fishers have provided food for thousands of years. Long ago, fishers had to fish close to land and used simple fishing tools such as knives, hoes, and spears. With the use of modern boats and fishing equipment, today's fishers fish far out in the ocean and catch a large variety of fish for market.

Police Then and Now

Melissa A. Settle (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390333

For over two hundred years, individuals have protected and served their communities as lawmen. Today, people who help enforce the law are called police officers because both men and women can serve in the police force.

Nurses Then and Now

Sarah Kartchner Clark (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390357

Many years ago, doctors trained nurses to help them treat people. Today, nurses go to school to learn about medicine and about how to help people when they are sick. Nurses perform many of the same duties as doctors.

Teachers Then and Now

Roben Alarcon (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390364

The first teachers in the United States were students who did well in school and were hired to teach other students. Today, teachers must have college degrees to teach. Schools today are larger than those in the past and often have several separate classes at the same grade level.

Firefighters Then and Now

Melissa A. Settle (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390326

Firefighters are community heroes and their job is to help wherever there is trouble. Firefighters must be well trained, wear protective uniforms, and ride on trucks that are equipped to fight fires. Firefighters and the equipment they use today have changed significantly over the years.

Workers

Dona Herweck Rice (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9780743982139

Discover different jobs in the community and how these jobs help people with photos of teachers, police officers, and firefighters: jobs that all require work. Readers will be exposed to what these jobs require and vocabulary related to community workers.

Doctors Then and Now

Sarah Kartchner Clark (author)

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials ISBN: 9781433390340

Doctors help people stay healthy. When people get sick, doctors help them get well again. Today, doctors use many complex instruments to treat people. Long ago, doctors had few instruments and did not know as many ways to help people get well.