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Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue has students engaging in documentation when they perform investigations and sketch, label, or provide details about their work and findings....
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The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this kindergarten practice, storytelling leads to drawing, adding more detail, and then writing as literacy skills are developed....
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Next Time You See a Cloud (Library binding)
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!>Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science b...
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This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn just how much you can use your sense of sight. Toys and tools, birds and bugs, flowers and fish, and ...
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Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why
Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to his dad’s tale about taking in the deliciousness of a pastry shop, the woodsy smells of a lumberya...
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Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why
“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s snores at night, sounds are everywhere. That’s what an attentive boy discovers as he listens his way...
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Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science be...
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The Early Years: Navigating Natural Disasters
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue has students attempting to contain moving water and experience and use its force....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Forecasting Hazardous Conditions
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. Through the use of printed text and video resources, young students can begin to ask questions to learn about different types of weather, whereas older students can start to conside...
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The Early Years: Classroom Memories
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue provides an activity to encourage students to reflect on their actions and thought processes....