Books with author Carole Marsh

Christina, Grant, Mimi and Papa head for Hawaii in search of paradise and find five islands' worth of mystery, history, lava legends, voracious volcanoes, World War II wonder, BIG waves, and more! LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Hawaiian History - Polynesian settlers, ancient temples - Origins and culture of early Hawaiians • Hawaiian Language • Hawaiian Food Specialties: Poi, smoked pig, pineapple juice, coconuts, poke • Hawaiian Legends: Pele, Goddess of the Volcano, Giant Lake Creature • Hawaiian Geography: Location - Fauna: Palm trees, bougainvillea flowers, plumeria, reefs, protea, naupaka shrubs - Volcanoes: Steam vents, ash, rock, lava - Rain Forests: strawberry guava trees, Ohia tree - Isolated Archipelago - Longest island chain in the whole world - Facts about Mauna Kea; Basalt Rock, adze, red and black rock cylinder cones • Hawaiian Economy - Farming: Pineapples, sugarcane, coffee, Macadamia Nuts - Fishing: Sea life, tropical fish, Moray eel • Scrimshaw • Hawaiian Luau: Decorations, Bougainvillea flowers, Traditional Hawaiian dance, Hula skirts, Smoked pig • Hawaiian Lei • Sea shells: igloo shells, spiral shells, snail shells • Altitude Sickness • Twin Keck Telescopes Facts • USS Arizona Memorial layout and history • Pearl Harbor • Surfing description and terminology. Honolulu International Airport - USS Arizona War Memorial, Honolulu, HI • The Royal Hawaiian Hotel (The Pink Palace) - Bus ride along the shore of Oahu to Waimea Bay Beach - Makaha - The Inn at Kulaniapia Falls Hilo - Keaau, Oahu, HI • Volcanoes National Park - Tour Van to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea - Onizuka Visitor Station - Mauna Kea adze quarry (HI's highest national landmark) - The Kona Coast - The Kona Coast, Big Island • Halawa Valley - Moaula Falls - Ruins of temples, Molokai, HI • Diamond Head Volcanic Crater • Banzai Pipeline • Lahaina Beach, Maui, HI • The Pagoda Guest House, Kuluniapia Falls, HI • Helicopter tour of the Volcanoes • Deep Sea Fishing Tour • Captain Cook Memorial, Kona, HI • Hawaiian Village, Waikiki Beach, HI. Like all of Carole Marsh Mysteries, this mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that will keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, built-in book club and activities.Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book:Grade Levels: 3-6Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.1Accelerated Reader Points: 2Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 135935Lexile Measure: 800Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: QDevelopmental Assessment Level: 40 Get your FREE Resources!1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Real Kids! Real Places! Correlations to Common Core/State Standards .2. Download the Where Have You Been map .3. Utilize the Real Kids! Real Places! Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 50 mysteries .4. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussions and Book Club Activities .5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters .

The wonders of the City by the Bay will excite all kids, whether they are from San Francisco, visiting San Francisco, or just learning about this awesome, amazing place. This exciting and educational coloring/activity book parades kids all around San Francisco, from Fisherman's Wharf to Ghirardelli Square, from Alcatraz to the Morrison Planetarium! Kids travel through San Francisco by way of mazes, dot-to-dots, crosswords, coloring pages, matching, a detailed map and other fun activities. Kids visit San Francisco's sports teams, museums, famous landmarks and cultural centers, learning all about San Francisco history, geography, people and much more! San Francisco Coloring & Activity Book includes: The Golden Gate Bridge •Alcatraz • The Transamerica Building • Cable Cars • Fishermen’s Wharf • Painted Ladies • Coit Memorial Tower • 49ERS • Giants • Marina Green • Mission District • Chinatown • And a lot more!

The Ohio Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is one of our NEW products for 2017! A true-time saver, the Ohio Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! includes ready-to-use pages and instructions that make state-studies fun and successful for the whole class.The Ohio Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! is more than just a notebook for taking notes it's a way of collecting and thinking about information. The Ohio Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! helps students become creative, independent, and reflective thinkers, readers, and writers. Students learn to express their own ideas and apply skills learned in class. The Ohio Interactive Notebook: A Hands-On Approach to Learning About Our State! gives teachers ready-to-use pages, templates, instructions, writing prompts, and more, making it easy to start using their interactive notebooks today!WHY USE INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS?Interactive Notebooks are great for students! Building an Interactive Notebook helps students build organization skills as they take responsibility for their learning resources. The Interactive Notebook provides students with an outlet to apply the knowledge they gain in ways that express their own ideas and creativity. Guided writing activities incorporated into an Interactive Notebook help your students develop into independent, creative, reflective thinkers. And, once completed, an Interactive Notebook becomes a comprehensive and engaging review tool to help your students master content and prepare for tests. Interactive Notebooks are great for teachers! You can easily customize your instruction. You direct the learning process and pace. You determine where to dig deeper...and when and where to add pizzazz! You choose which projects to use as instruction, which projects to use as reinforcement, which projects to use as independent practice, and which projects to use as assessments. You can supplement activities with your own texts and projects. And, you meet the unique needs of your students in each and every year!A true time-saver! Step-by-step teacher instructions Ready-to-use, reproducible pages Writing and reflection prompts Student letter Supply lists Rubric And more!This book is reproducible and has 68 pages.

The Black Heritage series has updated content and a new look. The Black Trivia: The African American Experience A-to-Z book shares African American experience in a fun format of multiple-choice questions that are sure to produce lots of “I knew that!” or “I didn’t know that!” or “Tell me more!” From the Civil War to the North Pole… the slave era to the age of astronauts… or the Battle of Little Big Horn to Yale University, this engrossing book is chock-full of facts and fun for everyone.There are 100 multiple-choice questions, bonus questions and a Black Trivia Certificate.

They had no pens. They had no paper. It didn't matter - they could neither read nor write. But slaves had plenty to say and share - their stories, their sufferings, their wisdom, their wit. Kids will learn that nothing is more powerful than oral history. Words spoken and tales told completely unfiltered by others can teach young people not only the facts, but the very soul of what happened in the past. Hear the people of the past in their own words through diaries, interviews, quotations, poetry, and songs.

Grant and Christina have a new friend named Sam. Her mom and dad own a school supply store. One day Sam reads a book about the famous Amazon River and rainforest and soon everyone is off with Mimi and Papa on the Mystery Girl airplane to a great adventure! Well, that is, if you like sizable snakes, a terrifying tarantula, toe-nibbling fish, messy monkeys, witch doctors, poison arrows, swinging from vines, getting lost, getting scared. Whew! An amazing Amazon boy helps solve the mystery as he guides the kids through the maze of ancient ruins at the famous city of Machu Picchu ("which sounds like a sneeze when you say it real fast!" says Grant). Don’t miss this mystery – it's wiiillldddd! This mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! This mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, Built-In Book Club and activities. This book includes a map, inline glossary definitions, and lots more! This Carole Marsh Mystery also has an Accelerated Reader quiz, a Lexile Level, a Fountas & Pinnell guided reading level and a Developmental Reading Assessment. LOOK what's in this mystery - people, places, history, and more! Places: Amazon River • Guarulhos International Airport • Amazon Rainforest • Rainforest Hotel • Native Village • Ancient Machu Picchu, Peru (specifically the Jail) • Inca Trail, Machu Picchub• Amazon River Basin in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Paraguay Educational Items: Rainforests including size, bugs, history, habitat, conservation, • Cabana Rooms in Rainforest Hotel • Machu Piccu including its history, buildings, construction and architecture • Howler Monkeys • Witch Doctors • Gemstones including their natural state • Amazon Rainforest Wildlife – including, caimans, poison dart frogs, Morpho butterflys, bugs, piranhas • Carnival (including the Samba) in Rio de Janeiro • The Jungle including safe traveling techniques • Indigenous Foods of the Amazon including Crab, Rice, Fish, and Coconut • PygmiesBelow is the Reading Levels Guide for this book:Grade Levels: 3-6Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 4.6Accelerated Reader Points: 3Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 118326Lexile Measure: 700Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: QDevelopmental Assessment Level: 40Get your FREE Resources!1. Download the Carole Marsh Mysteries Around The World Correlations to Common Core/State Standards . 2. Download the Where in the World Have You Been map . 3. Download additional activities including Fact or Fiction, Fascinating Facts, Book Club Discussion and Book Club Activities .4. Utilize the Around the World Common Core State Standards Teacher Resource for classroom discussion questions and activities for ELA grades 2-6. This can be used for all 19 mysteries .5. Want a sneak peak? Read the first three chapters .

Grab your crayons and fasten your seatbelt as you travel more than 2,000 miles along America's most unforgettable highway. Enjoy the sights, sounds, and tastes you'll encounter at the shops and other roadside attractions along the route. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride!Route 66 is a 24-page, reproducible and educational coloring book with fun-filled activities. Your students will love to learn about the Route 66 including the history, eight states and the three time zones. They will also discover: A songwriter and singer named Bobby Troupe wrote a famous song called Get Your Kicks on Route 66. “Motor Hotels” (motels) were born on Route 66. Café's were the only place to stop and eat! Many became famous. Route 66 is filled with fantastic names! Festivals abound along Route 66. Route 66 travels through the Land of Lincoln. There's lots of desert on Route 66 - and desert critters too! And more! The activities include: Word searchAmazing mazeOnly half the pictureConnect the dotsAll mixed-upDouble troubleDecipher the secret code