Ewww! Yuck! --- Let me see that!

Don’t ever underestimate the gross factor as a way to get kids interested and engaged in a topic.

The following resources have potential for grossing out and attracting at the same time.  Funny how a lot of them relate to bodily functions, isn’t it?

Enjoy!

Nonfiction books and kits (for elementary and middle school)
*Animal scat identification kit (599 AN 2008 A/V)

*Black spider puppet (791.53 SP 2005 A/V)

*Bug science: 20 projects and experiments about arthropods : insects, arachnids, algae, worms, and other small creatures (595 YOB 2009)

*Left for dead: a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis (940.545973 NEL 2002) (suggested for grades 9 and up)

*Man eating bugs: the art and science of eating insects (394.1 MEM 1998)

*Oh, rats!: the story of rats and people (599.352 MAO 2006)

*Ouch!: how your body makes it through a very bad day (612 WAO 2007)

*Poop: a natural history of the unmentionable (573.49 DAP 2004)

*Qwiggle-gel brain mold (612.82 QW 2005 A/V)

*Rear ends: found photos from the collection of Roger Handy (779 RE 2007)

*Snake (597.96 MAS 2006)

*Sneeze! (612.2 SIS 2007)

*What stinks? (573.877 SIW 2006)

*What's eating you?: parasites--the inside story (578.65 DAW 2007)

*What's living in your classroom? (579 SOW 2004)

Picture books

*Big Al (823 C591B PIC BK)

*I stink! (823 M229I PIC BK)

*Mucky moose (823 AL533M PIC BK)

*What's that awful smell? (823 T236W PIC BK)