REFERENCES

REFERENCES

Internet – miscellaneous bear resources:

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bear/Bearcoloring.shtml

 http://travelinbearcountry.com/bears.htm

 http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/ylp/97-98/97-98_units/97-98mini-

unit/Rcalhouns_Bears/Bear1.html

 http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems19.html

 http://www.eduplace/com/rdg/gen_act/bears/mother.html

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/diorama/forest/

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/puppets/paperbag/index.shtml

 http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/bears/bear.html

 http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/itl/K/bears/bears_b.html

 http://flame.fl-dof.com/Gifs/Fp/song.gif

 http://www.smokeybearstore.com/true_story_of_smokey_bear.htm

 http://www.smokeybearstone.com/smokey_bear_story.htm

 http://www.bear.org/Kids/KA_Home.html

 http://www.bear.org/SlideShows/HiddenWorldOfBears/Slide_59.html

 http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/animals.html

 http://www.fhsu.edu/te/facstaff/gtaggart/lessons/98/bears.html



Internet – black bear resources

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bear/Amblackcoloring.sh

tml

 http://www.grandfather.com/habitats/bears.htm

 http://www.bears.org/animals/black/

 http://wildwnc.org/af/blackbear.html

 http://www.bear.org/homepage.html

 http://www.bear.org/Black/Black_Bear_Facts.html

 http://www.bear.org/SlideShows/HowDangerous/Slide_06.html

 http://www.bear.org/SlideShows/HowDangerous/Slide_09.html

 http://www.bear.org/SlideShows/HowDangerous/Slide_11.html

 http://www.bear.org/SlideShows/HiddenWorldOfBears/Slide_02.html

 http://www.bear.org/Kids/Sounds.html

 http://www.bear.org/Black/Black_Bear_Populations.html



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Internet – polar bear resources

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bear/Polarbearcoloring.s

html

 http://www.thewildones.org/SFC/Seana/paul.html

 http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/polar/bears/html

 http://www.bears.org/animals/polar

 http://teachers.net/gazette/FEB03/polar.html

 http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/blubber/experiment.html

 http://www.bear.org/Polar/Polar_Bear_Facts.html



Internet – grizzly bear resources

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bear/Grizzlycoloring.sht

ml

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/bear/Brownbearcoloring.

shtml

 http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/grizzly.html

 http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/GrizzlyBears/GrizzlyBearAnit

phon

 http://www.nps.giv/jeff/LewisClark2/Images/Education/GrizzlyBearPawLeft.gi

f

 http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/GrizzlyBears/JointedGrizzlyB

earPattern

 http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/Education/GrizzlyBears/GrizzlyRhymingS

inging.html

 http://www.bears.org/media/fiction

 http://www.bears.org/animals/brown/



Children’s Literature

NON-FICTION:



Polar Bear Books:

 Polar Bears by: Marcia S. Freeman/Gail Saunders-Smith, Ph.D., Consulting

Editor

 Natural World: Polar Bear by: Malcolm Penny

 Wildlife of North America: The Polar Bear by: Annie Hemstock

 Nature’s Children: Polar Bears by: Caroline Greenland

 Polar Bears by: Sarah Palmer





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Grizzly Bear Books:

 Wildlife of North America: The Grizzly Bear by: Steve Potts

 Nature’s Children: Grizzly Bears by: Caroline Greenland

 The Untamed World: Grizzly Bears by: Janice Parker



Black Bear Books:

 Nature’s Children: Black Bears by: Caroline Greenland

 The Wonder of Black Bears by: Beth Karpfinger



Miscellaneous Bear Books:

 Bears by: Bobbie Kalman & Tammy Everts

 Bears by: Kevin J. Holmes

 Bears: Paws, Claws, and Jaws by: Adele D. Richardson

 In the Wild: Bears by: Claire Robinson

 Secretes of Animal World: Bears: Animals that Hibernate by: Isidro Sanchez

 Bears by: Alfred Brockman

 The Baby Bears photographs by: Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo

 Baby Bears and How They Grow by: Jane Heath Buxton



Children’s Literature



FICTIONAL BEAR BOOKS:



 Bear by: John Schoenherr

 How Do Bears Sleep? By: E.J. Bird

 Bears in the Forest by: Karen Wallace

 Are You There Baby Bear? By: Catherine Walters

 My Friend Bear by: Jez Alborough

 Smokey the Bear by: Jane Werner

 It’s the Bear by: Jez Alborough

 Blueberries for Sal by: Robert McCloskey

 The Bear Under The Stairs by: Helen Cooper

 Old Bear by: Jane Hissey

 Birthday Buddies by: Laura Damon

 Somebody and the Three Blairs by: Marilyn Tolhurst

 The Biggest Bear by: Lynd Ward

 Ira Sleeps Over by: Bernard Waber

 How I Found a Friend by: Irina Hale



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 Beware of the Bears by: Alan MacDonald and Gwyneth Williamson

 The Friendly Bear by: Robert Bright

 Bears by: Ruth Krauss

 The Grumpling by: Stephen Cosgrove

 I Lost My Bear by: Jules Feiffer

 Little Bear’s Visit by: Else Holmelund Minarik

 The Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare by: Stan and Jan Berenstain

 Paddington at the Circus by: Michael Bond and Fred Banberry

 Who Wants and Old Teddy Bear? By: Ginnie Hofmann

 What Was That? By: Geda Bradley Mathews

 How Do You Say It Today, Jesse Bear? By: Nancy White Carlstrom

 Corduroy by: Don Freeman

 A Pocket For Corduroy by: Don Freeman

 The Large and Growly Bear by: Gertrude Crampton

 Little Brown Bear by: Wendy Watson

 Moonbear’s Dream by: Frank Asch

 Mooncake by: Frank Asch

 Benny’s Bad Day by: Michael J. Pellowski

 Bearymore by: Don Freeman



PROFESSIONAL BOOKS/JOURNALS:

 Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies 5th Ed. By: Gail E. Thompkins

 Intel: Teach to the Future by: Debbie Candau, et al

 Through Other Eyes by: Joan Skolnick

 Principles and Practices of Teaching Reading by: Arthur W. Heilman, et al

 Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners 2nd Ed. By: Adrienne

Herrell, et al



PEOPLE RESOURCES:



Mrs. Joyce Childers, Kindergarten Teacher at Garden City Elementary School

Dr. Theron Thompson, Professor at Radford University

Mrs. Linda Gumaer, Professor at Radford University

Amanda Ergenbright, Student Intern

Leighanne Brewster, Student Teacher

Alison Dolan, Second Grade Teacher at Garden City Elementary School









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CLIP ART RESOURCES:



 http://bears.org/

 http://www.bear.org/homepage.html

 http://www.members.carol.net/~jmaloney/animal62.htm

 http://www.smokeybear.com/

 Microsoft Office 2000 Professional



BEAR ACTIVITIES:

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/classroom/K1/bears.shtml

 http://www.enchantedlearning.com/lotto/

 http://idptv.state.id.us/dialogue4kids/bears/footloose.html

 http://idptv.state.id.us/dialogue4kids/bears/links.html

 http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/es/facpages/beckerd/index.htm

 http://idptv.state.id.us/dialogue4kids/bears/classroom.html

 http://library.thinkquest.org/J001739F/

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