Roscoe (a goose) takes a trip through the desert and encounters various desert plants and animals including a roadrunner, a chuckwalla, peccary, bat eared fox, joshua tree and barrel cacti. Each page provides a photograph of the various encounters as an animated Roscoe walks by. A text box is then provided for children to write about the trip and the picture they are looking at.

This activity is the result of a fourth grader using the Roscoe’s Desert Trip Activity/Template to describe his impressions and thoughts about Roscoe the Goose’s trip. This activity can be used as a reading activity or as an example for children to see how another child wrote about his understanding of the desert and what Roscoe experienced as a goose in the desert..

This freely downloadable activity provides a historical account of Rosa Parks and the impact she had on the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. It also provides five questions to check the child’s comprehension on the material they have just read.

This activity provides a look at ten unique birds, both in the form of close-up photos and as a brief description each one. The text provides one or two facts about each bird and in some cases “word rhymes” were used to try to fix the name of the bird in the child’s mind (i.e. people might “gawk” at the “auk”.)

In this activity the children are told that we don’t know the names of the animals presented on the pages. They are asked to make up a name for each animal and give the reasons why they are naming it.