If your students love the Magic Tree House books, you will love this book! Cross all curricular areas and engage students in meaningful and stimulating learning experiences. ·Use these units of study to guide students on thrilling time travel experiences to Magic Tree House locations where they will learn all about dinosaurs, knights and castles, Egyptian mummies and pyramids, and pirates and buried treasure. ·Collaborate with technology specialists, art teachers, and classroom teachers to create units that touch every student, through quality literature, foods, multimedia resources, and fine arts connections. ·Find cross-curricular lessons and in-depth studies of time and place, designed to promote deep learning in students while tickling their fancies and motivating them to read both fiction and non-fiction. Wow! A treasure chest of good ideas, awaits you in this resource designed to be used by a collaborative team of school librarian, technology specialists, classroom teachers and fine arts teachers. These literature-based units are designed for elementary students but adaptable to middle school students. Use these hands-on activities based on the destinations from the popular Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne. The subject areas covered are high interest topics that librarians can use both during the school year, as well as in summer reading programs. The focus on both fiction and non-fiction is right on target for teaching expository reading skills and text features which appear on every state s assessment. You will love the graphic look of this book and find it a heavy-hitter in sound pedagogical practices.