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More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 (e-book)


By: Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
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2008 Finalist for the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award
The Distinguished Achievement Award, from the Association of Educational Publishers, recognizes each year’s most outstanding materials in the field of teaching and learning.
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Type of Product:e-Book (our e-books are in PDF format and can be viewed on your computer or any compatible reading device) (also see print version of this book)
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Publication Date:1/1/2007
Pages:238
Stock Number:PB186X2e
ISBN:
Grade Level:Elementary School
Read Inside:Read a sample chapter: Imaginative Inventions


Description

Teachers raved when NSTA Press published Picture-Perfect Science Lessons in 2005.* They loved its lively mix of kid-magnet books, Standards-based science content and ready-to-teach lessons. So what could be more perfect? More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons! This volume offers 15 new lessons that combine picture books and inquiry to develop students’ interest in science and reading.

The sequel follows the winning formula that made the first book an NSTA best seller. The lessons, following the 5E instructional model developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) cover a variety of science content—physical science, life science, and Earth and Space Science. They include reproducible student pages and assessments. They feature embedded reading-comprehension strategies. And they make students yearn to learn from such engaging fiction and nonfiction books as Diary of a Worm, Sunshine On My Shoulders, How Big is a Foot? and Leo Cockroach, Toy Tester.

The authors know how important it is for time-starved teachers to integrate science and reading in a natural way and how students with reading troubles can use an extra nudge to get engaged in science texts. More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons is the perfect supplement to your science program—and the perfect way to help students develop a love of reading and learning about science.

*Teachers weren’t the only ones raving! Picture-Perfect won the 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Teacher Resource Books from the Association of Educational Publishers.


Ideas For Use

Each lesson contains background information for the teacher, engagement activities, hands-on explorations, student pages, suggestions for student and teacher explanations, opportunities for elaboration, assessment suggestions, and annotated bibliographies of more books to read on the topic. Assessments range from poster sessions with rubrics to student-created books to formal multiple-choice and extended-response quizzes.

Additional Info

Science Discipline: (mouse over for full classification)
Science process skills
Intended User Role:Curriculum Supervisor, Elementary-Level Educator, Professional Development Provider, Teacher
Educational Issues:Achievement, Assessment of students, Classroom management, Curriculum, Educational research, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Interdisciplinary, Learning theory, Professional development, Science safety, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Picture-Perfect Science Program

Chapter 1
Why Read Picture Books in Science Class?
Chapter 2
Reading Aloud
Chapter 3
Teaching Science Through Inquiry
Chapter 4
BSCS 5E Instructional Model
Chapter 5
National Science Education Standards
Chapter 6
Bubbles
Bubble, Bubble and Pop! A Book About Bubbles
Chapter 7
How Big Is a Foot?
How Big Is a Foot? and How Tall, How Short, How Faraway
Chapter 8
Hear Your Heart
Hear Your Heart and The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness
Chapter 9
Loco Beans
Lucas and His Loco Beans: A Bilingual Tale of the Mexican Jumping Bean
Chapter 10
Wiggling Worms
Diary of a Worm and Wiggling Worms at Work
Chapter 11
Over in the Ocean
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef and Coral Reef Animals
Chapter 12
Be a Friend to Trees
Our Tree Named Steve and Be a Friend to Trees
Chapter 13
That Magnetic Dog
That Magnetic Dog and Magnetic and Nonmagnetic
Chapter 14
Roller Coasters
Roller Coaster and I Fall Down
Chapter 15
Mirror, Mirror
What Did They See? and I See Myself
Chapter 16
If You Find a Rock
If You Find a Rock and Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough
Chapter 17
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Chapter 18
Stargazers
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer and Spots of Light: A Book About Stars
Chapter 19
Imaginative Inventions
Imaginative Inventions and Leo Cockroach, Toy Tester
Chapter 20
A Sense of Wonder
John Muir: America’s Naturalist, Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder, and The Important Book

Glossary
Index


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National Standards Correlation

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  • 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.
      • Select teaching and assessment strategies that support the development of student understanding and nurture a community of science learners.
    • Teachers of science guide and facilitate learning. In doing this, teachers
      • Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry, as well as the curiosity, openness to new ideas and data, and skepticism that characterize science.
    • Teachers provide students with the time, space, and resources needed to learn science.
      • Make the available science tools, materials, media, and technological resources accessible to students.
  • Science as Inquiry
    • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
      • NA


Customer Reviews
Tying Science and Literacy
  Reviewed by: Maureen Stover (Seaside, CA) on April 8, 2011
  In today's classroom, it is critical to effectively tie literacy to other subjects. This excellent resource ties literacy and science. Using picture books as a basis to introduce a lesson, students engage in hands-on science lessons. My students especially liked the Sunshine on My Shoulders lesson in which they got to make UV bead bracelets. All of the lessons in this book are outstanding and I highly recommend this book.

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