NEW Curriculum Resource Titles, May 27

Check out NEW Curriculum Resource titles in TWU’s Curriculum Resource Centre (CRC).

This specialized education resource library serves Trinity’s School of Education and local educators, and it provides a variety of resources for curriculum planning, research and teaching (including curriculum guides), teacher’s resources, and K-12 student resources.

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A Bear’s Life by Ian McAllister and Nicholas Read
(Interest Level: Grades K-7)
Second in the My Great Bear Rainforest series, this book highlights black bears, grizzly bears, and spirit bears through stunning photographs and follows these animals through a year in the British Columbia wilderness–catching fish, eating berries, climbing trees and taking long naps.

Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Jessica Dee Humphreys and Michel Chikwanine and illustrated by Claudia Dávila
(Interest Level: Grades 5-9)
Michel Chikwanine was five years old when he was abducted from his schoolyard soccer game in the Democratic Republic of Congo and forced to become a soldier for a brutal rebel militia. Told in the first person and presented in a graphic novel format, the gripping story of Michel’s experience is moving and unsettling.

A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade and illustrated by Veronica Miller Jamison
(Interest Level: Grades 1-3)
The inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon.

The Electric War: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Light the World by Mike Winchell
(Interest Level: Grades 7-11)
The book tells the story of three prominent men of the Gilded Age: Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse. It’s about how they were as individuals, what they did to advance society, how they worked to hone and improve their inventions, and ultimately, what they did to try to best their competition and win the battle.

Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves took on the World by Kathy Lowinger
(Interest Level: Grades 9-12)
This book is a story of the Jubilee Singers, who traveled from Cincinnati to New York, following the path of the Underground Railroad. With every performance they endangered their lives and those of the people helping them, but they also broke down barriers between blacks and whites, lifted spirits, and even helped influence modern American music.

West Coast Wild: A Natural Alphabet by Deborah Hodge and pictures by Karen Reczuch
(Interest Level: Grades K-2)
This stunning nature alphabet book explores the fascinating ecosystem of the Pacific West Coast. From A to Z this book describes in vivid language the rainforest, ocean and beach, and a great variety of animals that a child might see walking along the shore — from tiny sea jellies to inquisitive sandpipers to leaping orcas.

100 Most Destructive Natural Disasters by Anna Claybourne
(Interest Level: Grades 3-7)
This book investigates nature’s worst moments, from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed over 200,000 people to the historic 1900 Galveston hurricane. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about natural disasters and a whole lot of things you didn’t.