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Teaching Science Through Trade Books (e-book)


By: Christine Anne Royce, Emily Morgan, and Karen Ansberry

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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)
Publication Date:4/15/2012
Pages:326
Stock Number:PB315Xe
ISBN:978-1-936959-86-0
Grade Level:Elementary School


Description

“‘What was your favorite book as a child?’ In more than 10 years of facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, ‘My fourth-grade science textbook.’ Clearly, textbooks have an important place in the science classroom, but using trade books to supplement a textbook can greatly enrich students’ experience.” —from Teaching Science Through Trade Books

If you like the popular “Teaching Science Through Trade Books” columns in NSTA’s journal Science and Children, or if you’ve become enamored of the award-winning Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series, you’ll love this new collection. It’s based on the same time-saving concept: By using children’s books to pique students’ interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way.

In this volume, column authors Christine Royce, Emily Morgan, and Karen Ansberry selected 50 of their favorites, updated the lessons, and added student activity pages, making it easier than ever to teach fundamental science concepts through high-quality fiction and nonfiction children’s books. Just as with the original columns, each lesson highlights two trade books and offers two targeted activities, one for K–3 and one for grades 4–6. All activities are Standards-based and inquiry-oriented.

From Measuring Penny and How Tall, How Short, How Far Away? to I Took a Walkand Secret Place, the featured books will help your students put science in a whole new context. Teaching Science Through Trade Books offers an ideal way to combine well-structured, ready-to-teach lessons—with strong curricular connections—and books your students just may remember, always.


Additional Info

Intended User Role:Elementary-Level Educator, Teacher
Educational Issues:Assessment of students, Classroom management, Curriculum, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Interdisciplinary, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies

Contents

National Science Education Standards: Content Standards K-4 Matrix

National Science Education Standards: Content Standards 5-8 Matrix

Alignment With A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core Ideasi Matrix

Chapter 1: Historical Use of Trade Books in the Science Classroom

Chapter 2: Why Use Trade Books to Teach Science?

Chapter 3: Thought-Provoking Questions, by Christine Anne Royce Goldilocks and the Three Bears and June 29, 1999

Chapter 4: A Closer Look, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan You Can Use a Magnifying Glass and Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist’s Microscope

Chapter 5: Science Measures Up, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Measuring Penny and How Tall, How Short, How Far Away?

Chapter 6: Going Wild With Graphs, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Giraffe Graphs and Tiger Math: Learning to Graph From a Baby Tiger

Chapter 7: Wild About Data, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan The Great Graph Contest and Collecting Data in Animal Investigations

Chapter 8: Taking Note of Natural Resources, by Christine Anne Royce Weslandia and Just a Dream

Chapter 9: Words to the Wild, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Pond Walk and Salamander Rain: A Lake and Pond Journal

Chapter 10: Into the Woods, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan In the Woods: Who’s Been Here? and The Woods Scientist

Chapter 11: Discover Reading, by Christine Anne Royce Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein and Reaching for the Moon

Chapter 12: How It’s Made, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan How Is a Pencil Made? and Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made

Chapter 13: It’s About Time, by Christine Anne Royce How Do You Know What Time It Is? and On Time: From Seasons to Split Seconds

Chapter 14: If You Build It …, by Christine Anne Royce How a House Is Built and Bridges: Amazing Structures to Design, Build, and Test

Chapter 15: Imaginative Inventions, by Christine Anne Royce Imaginative Inventions and So You Want to Be an Inventor?

Chapter 16: Let’s Try It Out in the Air, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Let’s Try It Out in the Air: Hands-On Early-Learning Science Activities and I Face the Wind

Chapter 17: A Balancing Act, by Christine Anne Royce Mirette on the High Wire and The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Chapter 18: Gravity Is a Mystery I Fall Down and Gravity Is a Mystery

Chapter 19: Roller Coasters! by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Roller Coaster and Roller Coaster! Motion and Acceleration

Chapter 20: Secrets of Flight, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Animals in Flight and How People Learned to Fly

Chapter 21: Flick a Switch, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Why Should I Save Energy? and Flick a Switch: How Electricity Gets to Your Home

Chapter 22: The Wonder of Water, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan I Get Wet and A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder

Chapter 23: Kitchen Chemistry Pancakes for Breakfast and Acids and Bases: Why Chemistry Matters

Chapter 24: Secrets of Seeds, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Seeds and Seeds

Chapter 25: Pumpkins! by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden and How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

Chapter 26: Flower Power, by Christine Anne Royce Planting a Rainbow and The Reason for a Flower

Chapter 27: Crazy for Loco Beans, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Lucas and His Loco Beans: A Bilingual Tale of the Mexican Jumping Bean and A Monarch Butterfly’s Life

Chapter 28: Seeing and Sorting Shells, by Christine Anne Royce Seashells by the Seashore and Seashells, Crabs, and Sea Stars

Chapter 29: Unusual Creatures, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Triops: A Very Unusual Creature and Crab Moon

Chapter 30: Can You See Me Now? by Christine Anne Royce Red Eyes or Blue Feathers: A Book About Animal Colors and Hide and Seek: Nature’s Best Vanishing Acts

Chapter 31: Survival Skills, by Christine Anne Royce Animal Defenses: How Animals Protect Themselves and Beaks!

Chapter 32: Antarctic Adaptations, by Christine Anne Royce The Emperor's Egg and Penguins!

Chapter 33: The Mystery of Migration, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Going Home: The Mystery of Animal Migration and Great Migrations: Whales, Wildebeests, Butterflies, Elephants, and Other Amazing Animals on the Move

Chapter 34: Whoo Eats What? by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Whoo Goes There? and White Owl, Barn Owl

Chapter 35: A Habitat Is a Home, by Christine Anne Royce I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World and The Salamander Room

Chapter 36: Exploring Your Environment, by Christine Anne Royce I Took a Walk and Secret Place

Chapter 37: You Are What You Eat! by Christine Anne Royce Gregory, the Terrible Eater and Science News for Kids: Food and Nutrition

Chapter 38: Moving My Body, by Christine Anne Royce What’s Inside Me? My Bones and Muscles and Movers and Shapers

Chapter 39: Science From the Heart, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Hear Your Heart and The Heart

Chapter 40: Disease Detectives, by Christine Anne Royce Germs Are Not for Sharing and What Are Germs?

Chapter 41: Rock Solid Science, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan If You Find a Rock and Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough

Chapter 42: Rocking Around the Rock Cycle, by Christine Anne Royce Let's Go Rock Collecting and The Rock Factory

Chapter 43: The Dirt on Soil, by Christine Anne Royce Dirt and A Handful of Dirt

Chapter 44: Fascinating Fossil Finds, by Christine Anne Royce Fossils Tell of Long Ago and Dragon in the Rocks: A Story Based on the Early Childhood of Paleontologist Mary Anning

Chapter 45: Mysteries of the Past, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Prehistoric Actual Size and Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs

Chapter 46: Earthquakes! by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Earthquakes and Earthquakes

Chapter 47: Delving Into Disasters, by Christine Anne Royce The Blizzard and Hurricanes!

Chapter 48: Cloud Watchers, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Fluffy, Flat, and Wet: A Book About Clouds and The Man Who Named the Clouds

Chapter 49: Weather Watchers, by Christine Anne Royce The Cloud Book and Weather Forecasting

Chapter 50: Sunrise, Sunset, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Day and Night and Somewhere in the World Right Now

Chapter 51: Moon Phases and Models, by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan Phases of the Moon and The Moon Book

Chapter 52: Seeing Stars, by Christine Anne Royce Out and About at the Planetarium and The Constellations: Stars and Stories


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