Students love a good story. We all do. That's why incorporating literary fiction that parallels teaching goals and standards can be so effective. In the interdisciplinary, thematic six-week unit described here, the fictional book The Deep Time Diaries, by Gary Raham, is used to explore topics in paleontology, Earth science, and creative journaling within an inquiry-based context.
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 4/1/2006Stock # ss06_029_07_41Volume 029Issue 07