The Monarch Award:
Illinois’ K-3 Children’s Choice Award
2006 Master List
Sponsored by the
Illinois School Library Media Association
2006 Nominee: Actual Size
Presents a look at the real size of animals and their body parts through comparisons with other common things, such as a human hand.
- Research: Animals in Actual Size in other books, encyclopedia, or web; check animal records in the Guinness Book of World Records
- Hands on: Choose animal and make the animal “actual” size with chalk, string or paper
- Art: Make an animal “collage,” put all animals in a mural
- Writing: Add animals to the book or make a
different book of actual shape or actual color
- Math: Measure and/or graph animal sizes
- Web: Virtual trip to zoo
- Compare: If You Hopped Like a Frog, Animal Fact, Animal Fiction, and other animal fact books
- If You Hopped Like a Frog
by David Schwartz
- Big and Little and Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins
- Animals, Animals by Eric Carle
- Big Bug Book by
Margery Facklam
- Books featuring collage artists: Eric Carle, Sims Taback, Lois Ehlert, David Wisenewski, Ed Young, Leo Lionni
- ReadWriteThink lesson plan
- World Almanac for Kids Animal Fact page
- Lesson plan for Carle tissue paper collage
- Several collage lesson plans