Chapter 2 Review

This book is focused primarily on grades 5-8 but provides insight and instruction for engaging students in hands on activities that can be taken and modified for different grade levels, some... See More

This book is focused primarily on grades 5-8 but provides insight and instruction for engaging students in hands on activities that can be taken and modified for different grade levels, something that is mentioned in the introduction. Also, in the introduction, it was emphasized that grades 5-8 can be a crossroads for students regarding science; this is the age where students will decide whether or not they like science. The book as a whole contains 36 activities but the chapter I believe would be most useful for myself in third-grade science is chapter 2. Before the section on activities begins, chapter 2 opens with an explanation of scientific inquiry that, if explained to students, would be beneficial for students to fully understand scientific inquiry. The activities in chapter 2 contain the objective, procedure, and materials to conduct the activities. Some of the activities contain an analysis that encourage students to take the activity further. I will need to modify the activities and content to make it more comprehensible for my students, but having a resource that contains objective, procedure, and materials already included will save preparation time for myself and other teachers who use it.

Fossil Discoveries

This downloadable chapter has an excellent and detailed explanations of scientific theory, law, and inquiry and the importance of correctly stating a hypothesis. Even if you don't specifica... See More

This downloadable chapter has an excellent and detailed explanations of scientific theory, law, and inquiry and the importance of correctly stating a hypothesis. Even if you don't specifically teach fossils in your curriculum, the innovative inquiry activities could be implemented during beginning year activities when "Inferencing Skills" are explored. Scale models and the calculation of scale is explained and taught in a manner that engaged my least motivated and learning disabled student.