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Details
| Type of Product: | NSTA Press Book (also see downloadable PDF version of this book) |
| Publication Date: | 1/1/2004 |
| Pages: | 141 |
| Stock Number: | PB189X |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87355-252-3 |
| Grade Level: | Elementary School |
| Read Inside: | Read a sample chapter: Say "Yes" to Metric Measure |
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Description
Stepping Up to Science and Math invites you to step back and rethink the way you teach both of these essential subjects. Then it illustrates how you can step up the pace with Standards-based activities that make learning more effective and efficient. (You can even step outside the ordinary with new lessons featuring gummy worms, school buses, or the planet Mars.) Compiled from Science & Children, NSTA’s award-winning elementary school journal, Stepping Up gathers 21 articles that provide interdisciplinary options for linking inquiry-based activities to mathematics as well as other K-6 curriculum areas, such as language arts and social studies. The book is organized into three broad content areas based on subject matter or skills:
• Making connections among the basic process skills—such as linear measurement, data collection, estimation, and graphing—that underpin both science and math. Chapter titles include “Say Yes to Metric,” “Gummy Worms Measurement,” and “Weighing Dinosaurs.”
• Using scientific concepts as the core for authentic investigations that link to other disciplines. Titles cover “Crossing the Curriculum with Frogs,” “Real Earthquakes, Real Learning,” and “Mission to Mars.”
• Finding contemporary applications for scientific inquiry and experimentation to develop more advanced integrated process skills. Among the titles: “The Scoop on Science Data,” “Thinking Engineering,” and “Building Structures.”
Ideas For Use
To make the book easy to use, each article is labeled by grade level, skills and concepts, Standards addressed, and content connections. Best of all, every activity is "teacher tried and true." Practicing educators have validated their value for busy teachers seeking ways to take science and math beyond the ordinary.
Additional Info
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Science Discipline:
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Earthquakes
Planets
Amphibians
Round worms
Analyzing data
Collecting data
Experimenting
Interpreting data
Measuring
Predicting
Scientific habits of mind
Using mathematics
Biodiversity
Earth materials
Technological design
Properties of materials
Life cycles
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| Intended User Role: | Curriculum Supervisor, Elementary-Level Educator, Teacher |
| Educational Issues: | Assessment of students, Classroom management, Curriculum, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Interdisciplinary, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation |
Contents
Introduction
Preface
Section I – Measuring Up: Estimations, Units, and Standards
Chapter 1
Say “Yes” to Metric Measure
Chapter 2
Sizing Up Trees
Chapter 3
Gummy Worm Measurements
Chapter 4
The Big Yellow Laboratory
Section II – Data Sense: Patterns, Trends, and Interpretations
Chapter 5
Concrete Graphs Build Solid Skills
Chapter 6
Graph that Data!
Chapter 7
Dealing with Data
Chapter 8
Graphing Is Elementary
Section III – Metric Relationships: Scales, Models and Measure
Chapter 9
Sizing Up the Metric System
Chapter 10
Centimeters, Millimeters, and Monsters
Chapter 11
“Weighing” Dinosaurs
Section IV – Interdisciplinary Science: Themes, Schemes, and Inquiry
Chapter 12
Crossing the Curriculum with Frogs
Chapter 13
Be a Food Scientist
Chapter 14
Real Earthquakes, Real Learning
Chapter 15
Our Growing Planet
Chapter 16
Mission to Mars: A Classroom Simulation
Section V – Experiments: Variables, Data, and Patterns
Chapter 17
The “Scoop” on Science Data
Chapter 18
Thinking Engineering
Chapter 19
The Dirt on Worms
Chapter 20
The Science and Mathematics of Building Structures
Chapter 21
A Blended Neighborhood
List of Contributors
Index
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- Science as Inquiry
- Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
- Employ simple equipment and tools to gather data and extend the senses. (K-4)
- Use appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
- Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence.
- Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.
- Use mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry.
- Understandings about scientific inquiry
- Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting).
- Content Standards
- Quality Teaching
- Deepens educators’ content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (NSDC)
- Teaching Standards
- Teachers of science plan an inquiry-based science program for their students.
- Select science content and adapt and design curricula to meet the interests, knowledge, understanding, abilities, and experiences of students.
- Earth Science
- Objects in the sky
- Changes in earth and sky
- Life Science
- Organisms and environments
- Physical Science
- Properties of objects and materials
- Position and motion of objects
- Earth Science
- Properties of earth materials
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