Resources available for free

Children's literature with math themes
List of children's literature available at libraries and bookstores to complement math learning.

At Home With Math
A set of 10 "math in everyday life" activities for caregivers or parents to do with 5–11 year old children. (©TERC, 2004)

School Age Notes
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Science Museum of Minnesota
For hundreds of fun online science activities, visit www.smm.org/explore.

Ben and Jerry's
For colorful and political graphing tools for older kids, visit www.benandjerrys.com/americanpie.

Your community offers many resources for collecting a wide variety of no-cost supplies for your program that can used by children in a multitude of ways. The following list of community resources is adapted from the article "Inventing" by Ellen Booth Church which appeared in the March 2006 issue of Early Childhood Today:

• Restaurant: Large transparent plastic jars, plastic dough buckets

• Dressmakers: fabric ends, plastic spools

• Fabric Stores: fabric bolts, outdated pattern books

• Carpet Stores: rug samples

• Supermarkets: food posters, large-sized food shipping containers

• Department stores: broken jewelry, odd scarves, decorative materials

• Printers/Copy Shops: White and colored papers, copy overruns

• Offices: Obsolete letterhead, order books, and notebooks

• Physician and Dentist Offices: Posters stressing healthy activities

• Bookstores: Posters, bookmarks

• Travel agencies: posters, outdated brochures

• Paint/Wallpaper stores: outdated wallpaper books, paint swatches