Have you ever read a book and you can't wait to share it with others? Well this is one of those books! My brain started cranking out a dozen places to use this book as curriculum support. What a wonderful biography of someone not famous by name, but by the contribution they made to a wonderful American tradition.
Tony Sarg is the creator of the concept of the beautiful balloon seen in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Taking his love for how things work and move, he applied it to a request by Macy's to sponsor a parade for the many immigrants who worked there.
Here are some subtle content integrations:
Simple machines that lead into compound and Rube Goldberg concepts
Biographical sketch
Communities post immigration
Thanksgiving tradition
Problem-Solution (live animals in the parade scared children so...)
Sequencing (he tried rubber puppets on wooden sticks, but even that had limitations so next he tried...)
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