First Grade, Science, Set Four

Here is the list of resources we used in learning about the Mountains:

• Mountains by David Cumming -- this book has a map that we used as a guide for coloring our map to show where mountain ranges are. It has a few pages on vegetation and wild life, and a really nice illustration of the different types of vegetation at different altitudes of a mountain.
• Hills and Mountains by Sabrina Crewe -- this is another book that has a little bit of a lot of different kinds of information about mountains, but this one is written for younger children and has some activities to do.
• Mountains by Fran Howard -- this is another book that touches on what mountains are and where they are and animals there. This one is even shorter, for young children to read on their own.
• Food for Life: Mountains by Kate Riggs -- this is a book about who eats who
• Hiding in Mountains by Deborah Underwood --this book is written for younger children, so it has large photos and minimal text. It shows different animals that live in mountains around the world camouflaged in their habitat, and then it has a picture showing the animal "revealed".
• Who Lives in . . . the Mountains? by Ron Hirschi -- another book with great photos and minimal text
• America's Mountains: Guide to Plants and Animals by Marianne D. Wallace -- if you can only find one book, this is the one to get. It has full page spread illustrations showing the plants and animals of each mountain range in America (Appalachians, Northern Rocky Mts, etc). K. just loved this book! It is also great for comparing the plants and animals of different mountain ranges.
• Animals of the High Mountains by Judith Rinard -- this book is divided by continents, and has great photos with minimal text
• Faces in the Mountains by Ron Hirschi -- great photos
• Mountain Mammals by Elaine Landau -- learning about six animals that live in the mountains
• A Temperate Forest Food Chain by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn -- We really like this series of books. You pick an animal and turn to the page designated, then read about it and then choose what it had for dinner last night, turn to that page, learn about it, choose what it had for dinner last night, etc. until you get to plants. There is a lot of information in this book, so to keep it at a 1st grade level we are skipping quite a bit, but it is definitely a book to re-visit when she is older.

Literature or Picture Books about Mountains:

• Kami and the Yaks by Andrea Stenn Stryer -- picture book about a family in Nepal
• Caravan by Lawrence Mckay Jr. -- picture book about a trip through the mountains in Afghanistan
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George -- about a boy living by himself in the Catskills
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri -- about a girl in the Alps