Time+Travel

=Using "time travel" as the device to encourage students to read historical fiction and information books can be done through some creative planning. The following are ways to incorporate the use of historical fiction / information books into the library curriculum (and possibly provide a unique collaboration project with some specific subject-area teachers) at the elementary level.=

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**The Time Machine**
circles of chairs facing inward with a patio umbrella in the middle---an umbrella stand will hold the umbrella and those umbrellas with lights could add an additional effect for the travel experience.
 * __The Vehicle__**

Music could be playing during the travel time with any specific "musical type" of the time period being played as the group arrives to their destination. For example, arriving in the Middle Ages might include music such as: [|Feast of Songs]

__**Additional decorations for the Time Travel vehicle:**__ Maybe some shiny material could be draped over the outside circle of the chairs with time machine type graphics or signs attached. Decorations from the various "eras" available to help students understand the significance of the trip. For example, stuffed toy dinosaurs, dinosaur skeletons (ask the science department), or fossils for the Prehistoric Age; pictures of mummies, Egyptian masks (see the art department for a collaboration idea), or large stones with "tools" used for creating the pyramids could be used for Ancient Civilizations.

**__Resource Books That Might Be Used:__**
//**Books Kids Will Sit Still For**// series by Judy Freeman //**How To Get Your Child to Love Reading**// by Esme Codell (pg. 106 describes an alternative time machine)

**__Prehistoric times__**

 * //Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs//** by K. Kudlinski

[|Dinosaur Lesson Plans and Activities] [|Where Are the Dinosaurs?] [|Dinosaur Illustrations] [|Nature and Science: Prehistoric Life (BBC]) [|Dinosaur Information Sites] [|Download a Dinosaur]

Concepts and skills to learn:

__Ancient Civilizations__

 * //Miss Frizzle's Adventures//** by J. Cole
 * //Mummy Riddles//** by K. Hall

Concepts and skills to learn:

**__Middle Ages__**

 * //Toy Brother//** by William Steig
 * //What If You Met A Knight?//** by Jan Adkins

Concepts and skills to learn:

**__European Expansion/Pilgrims__**

 * //You Wouldn't Want to Be An American Colonist//** by J. Morley


 * //Tattered Sails//** by V. Kay

Concept and skills to learn:

**__Revolutionary War__**

 * //How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightening//** by R. Schanzer

//**The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence**// by J. St. George


 * //Haym Solomon: American Patriot//** by Susan Goldman Rubin

Concept and skills to learn:

**__Westward Expansion/Gold Rush__**
//**Gold Fever**// by V. Kay

//**Nine for Califonia**// by S. Levitin

Concept and skills to learn:

**__Early 20th Century__**
//**Fly Bessie Fly**// by L. Joseph

Concept and skills to learn:

**__Mid 20th Century__**
//**Boxes for Katje**// by C. Fleming

Concept and skills to learn:

**__Later 20th Century__**
//**One Giant Leap**// by D. Brown

Concept and skills to learn:

**__Contemporary History__**

 * //Librarian of Basra//** by J. Winter

Concepts and skills to learn: