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Teaching Through Trade Books: Recording Scientific Explorations

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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....

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

The Early Years: Getting Deep With Documentation

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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....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Science and Engineering Practices Literacy

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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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Look and See: I Wonder Why

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 ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Instructional Materials

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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...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Instructional Materials

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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...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Instructional Materials

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Next Time You See a Cloud

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...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Instructional Materials

The Early Years: Navigating Natural Disasters

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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....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science Physical Science

Teaching Through Trade Books: Forecasting Hazardous Conditions

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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...

Elementary Preschool 5E Instructional Materials

The Early Years: Classroom Memories

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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....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Physical Science 5E Inquiry Literacy

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