Fredericks, Anthony D

Describes the reasons for and instances of cannibalistic behavior in a variety of animals, including guppies, black widow spiders, sharks, gerbils, and brown bears.

Provides resources, activities, and teaching suggestions for approximately ninety science units involving the Internet.

Presents twenty readers theater scripts on scientific principles and possibilities, which cast students in grades 4-8 in the roles of explorers, discoverers, scientists, and aliens. Includes activity ideas and learning extensions.

A collection of take-home activities for 40 books for grades three to four.

Describes the unusual manner in which such creatures as mudskippers, ostriches, starfish, and sloths get around.

Contains teaching strategies, lesson plans, scripts, and reproducible pages for using readers theatre to build fluency in kindergarten through eighth grade students.

Offers teachers thirty short nonfiction readers theatre plays designed to expose young readers to a wide range of topics, with factual, curriculum-related information and activities to help them understand nonfiction text and build their reading skills.

Presents information about the oceans of the world, the life they support, their importance as an ecosystem, and the threats they face. Includes related activities.

Once each year, Kimo and his grandfather have placed a flower lei atop a stone monument at Laup?hoehoe Point, but it is not until after Grandfather's death that he learns of the 1946 tsunami that took the lives of twenty-four schoolchildren and teachers, including Grandfather's younger brother.

Tells how twelve animals from around the world change their appearance to avoid predators.