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Teaching Through Trade Books: Matter All Around Us

Science and Children—April/May 2017

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s activities allow students to develop an “understanding of observable properties of materials [which] is developed by … analysis and classification” (NGSS Lead States 2013).

5E Instructional Materials Elementary Preschool

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