BIG PICTURE SCIENCE LEARNING MATERIALS

You may purchase most Big Picture Science products directly from this site (processed through Evergreen Online Solutions). Purchases may also be made through Montessori Services (North America) and Montessori Downunder (New Zealand and Australia). See Ordering for more information.

Kingdoms of Life Connected: A Teacher’s Guide to the Tree of Life

2nd Printing - 2009. A 198-page book that helps teachers present the Tree-of-Life view of life’s diversity to elementary and middle school students. The content includes “Coming of the Kingdoms” lessons and learning activities for all kingdoms plus the viruses. There are listings of book resources and Internet sites for each kingdom. This book includes black and white photo cards for charts that show the Tree of Life. The charts themselves are described in the book, and the files for printing them are available for download below. Email Priscilla to learn more about this book.

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Kingdoms of Life Connected: A Teacher’s Guide to the Tree of Life is also available as an instantly downloadable pdf file. This option allows you to store the book on your computer and print selected pages from it. The digital download version is also cheaper and saves trees and shipping fuel! Our digital download price: $17.95

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We have a few copies of the 1st Printing - 2008 of Kingdoms of Life Connected available at a discounted price of $22.00 ($23.01 including tax for Colorado residents). Purchasers of the 1st Printing will also receive via email a free digital download of the 2nd Printing -2009, which includes a revised introduction and corrects minor errors in the first printing.
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Tree of Life Charts (Companion to Kingdoms of Life Connected (above))

These charts are available for free.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

You may view the following files to use as a pattern to make your own charts. If you wish to have these charts printed, right click on the image and save the file to your computer, or simply open them directly. Copy the files to a memory stick or CD to transport them to a printing business that has a wide-format color printer. The cost of all five charts, printed in color and laminated, should be about $120. There are black and white photos that children can place on each of the colored rectangles. These photo cards are in the appendix of the book, Kingdoms of Life Connected. The photos are printed on card stock. They can be removed from the book and cut up for use on the charts. The text on the back of each photo tells where it belongs on the charts and has other information about the organism.

If you need further information or have questions, please email Priscilla.

Photo Cards for the Tree of Life Charts

These cards are a reprint of the appendix to the book, Kingdoms of Life Connected: A Teacher’s Guide to the Tree of Life. They are black and white photo cards for the Tree of Life Charts, done on the same heavy cardstock as they are in the book. There are 9 pages of cards with text, including classification, on the back of each. The chart name and the label for the box where the card fits is in boldface, so children will have a built-in guide for placing the cards on the charts. A tenth page shows the Tree of Life charts and how they fit together.

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A Tour of the Flowering Plants Based on the Classification System of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group

An excellent research reference for the elementary and middle school classroom. Focusing on the flowering plants of North America, with hundreds of gorgeous photographs illustrating the classification of plants in the angiosperm phylogeny group. Printed on high quality, glossy paper. Includes an excellent index, bibliography and glossary. A must-have addition to every teacher's reference materials, and a beautiful book sure to attract the attention of students. Email Priscilla for more information about this book.

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Botany Lessons CD

This CD has four PowerPoint presentations for teacher education or individual teacher review. The presentations are: Phyla of the Plant Kingdom, Plant Form and Function, Flowering Plant Families, and the Amaryllis, an example for the elementary classroom. The CD includes a PowerPoint player and also has the files in the pdf format. Email Priscilla to learn more about the CD.

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Back issues of Big Picture Science Newsletter

Selected back issues of Big Picture Science Newsletter from 1999-2002 are posted here as pdf files. Click here to reach them.

OUR PRICE: These files can be downloaded and printed free of charge.

Photocards for Botany

Photocard Set 1, Major Groups of the Plant Kingdom, has been revised to conform with botanists’ recent classification changes. The third edition gives major lineages of the plant kingdom, including bryophytes, lycophytes, monilophytes, and seed plants. This classification is the family-tree (phylogenetic) type that botanists currently use. This 40-card set has upgraded digital photos and shows the features of each plant lineage clearly. Email Priscilla to learn more about this set.

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Photocard Set 2, Introduction to the Flowering Plant Families. This set is available from Montessori Services (item EM403). It has 48 color photo cards, each of which is 4 ¼ X 5 ½. This set shows 14 families that represent the major lineages of angiosperms. Email Priscilla to learn more about this set.

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Also available: Flowers: Stamens and Pistils. This set of letter-sized images shows close-ups of 12 flowers and has text for lower and upper elementary students and background information for their teachers. Email Priscilla to learn more about this set.

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New learning materials for Introducing Matter and Atoms

Priscilla has worked with InPrint for Children on several new charts and cards sets. You can see them at http://www.in-printforchildren.com/. They include a magnetic periodic table and cards that show everyday objects and the elements that compose them. There are also materials for learning the parts of an atom, element names and symbols, the difference between physical and chemical changes, and the classification of matter. Priscilla wrote the background information and lesson suggestions for teachers for each of the materials.

Additional Books Available Through Montessori Services

Priscilla has two other books which are currently available only through Montessori Services. They are:

Plant Lessons: Introducing Children to Plant Form and Function, and

From the Biosphere to Atoms: A Teacher's Guide to the Organization of the Living World

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