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Jackie Smith

Nonfiction Read & Write Booklets: Science - 0 views

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    This is a resource published by Scholastic and it contains ten different interactive booklets that focus on science topics. The different booklets are: Creepy Crawly Insects, Animal Groups, Food Chains, Habitats, Life Cycle of a flowering plant, My Healthy Body, Sound, Wild, Windy Weather, Our Home, Earth and Our Solar Systerm. This book can be purchased online or at the Learning Shop and it offers and excellent way to integrate science and literacy and promote nonfiction reading in science. This is a great resource to facilitate the use of nonfiction science texts into literacy as the books also contain various components of nonfiction texts including bold words, pictures, diagrams and tables. With regard to differentiation, this book is great because even though it is technically for grades 2-3 the topics it covers are high interest and I have used several of the booklets with my fourth and fifth grade students. Another component I really like about these booklets is that they are reproducible so my students can take them home and can add to the what they have available to them at home. With regards to standards, these booklets address reading, writing, science and health standards. There are standards for both the end of fourth grade and eigth grade that these resources can be used for. In order to meet eighth grade standards, I would recommend further extension activities. Some of the specific standards addressed include: E.8.6 Describe through investigations the use of the earth's resources by humans in both past and current cultures, particularly how changes in the resources used for the past 100 years are the basis for efforts to conserve and recycle renewable and non-renewable resources THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANISMS F.4.1 Discover* how each organism meets its basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy* in order to survive F.4.2 Investigate* how organisms, especially plants, respond to both internal cues (the need for water)
Victoria Rydberg

EcoInvestigators from PBS - 0 views

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    Using best practices from Community Problem Solving (CmPS) instructional methods, EcoInvestigators is designed to get students in grades 3-5 engaged, excited, and prepared to take on and solve environmental problems in their community and beyond. With funding from International Paper, we have developed this program to help teachers use a variety of rich media resources to teach earth system science, explore global environmental problems and challenge your students to take steps to using data to help solve local environmental problems. This curriculum is in the beta phase and PBS welcomes feedback on the resources and activities provided on the site. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ecoinvestigators/. If you have suggestions or comments, please send them to djblubaugh@pbs.org.
Victoria Rydberg

Welcome | TIMSS Video - 1 views

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    53 videos of teaching math and science in various countries. Part of a 1999 TIMMS study of teaching methods. You do not need to create a login to watch the videos.
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