EDUC 450 (Elementary Science Methods): Teaching Resources

Off to a good start -- Before you open the classroom or lab door for students -- The first week of school -- Creating an environment for learning -- Safety in the laboratory -- Your attitude matters -- Teaching strategies -- Assessment literacy -- Creating professional development opportunities -- Parents as partners -- Finding support -- Preparing for your evaluation -- End-of-year activities and reflections.

Introduction: Strategies and Techniques -- 1. Inquiry: The Path, Discovery: The Destination -- 2. Constructing Knowledge and Discovering Meaning -- 3. The Inquiry Process Skills -- 4. Planning and Managing -- 5. Strategies and QuickChecks -- 6. Assessment of Understanding and Inquiry -- 7. Integrating Science -- 8. Using Technology to Enhance Science Learning -- 9. Adapting the Science Curriculum

What do we know about writing and science? -- What is a science notebook? -- What are the essential components of a science notebook? -- Getting started -- Question, problem, purpose -- Prediction -- Planning -- Observations, data, charts, graphs, drawings, and illustrations -- Claims and evidence -- Drawing conclusions -- Reflection: next steps, new questions -- English language development and the science-literacy connection -- Additional strategies for increasing the use of academic content language in the writing of English language learners -- Assessing student progress -- The power of feedback -- Implications and concluding remarks.

The number one compliment we hear from teachers is that the lessons are complete and ready to take back to their classrooms and use. Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry, coauthors of the Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series since the debut of the Picture-Perfect Science books and workshops more than 10 years ago, authors Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry have learned one thing for certain: elementary school teachers are constantly clamoring for even more ways to engage children in reading and science through picture books! To meet that demand, the 15 all-new lessons in Even More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons bring you: even more convenience: You can cover reading and science content simultaneously and save time with ready-to-use student pages and assessments. Even more confidence in your own expertise: you get relevant science concepts and reading comprehension strategies to keep your teaching on track. Even more ways to entice even reading-phobic children: each lesson makes students yearn to learn science from such captivating fiction and nonfiction picture books as Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar; Captain Kidd s Crew Experiments With Sinking and Floating; and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Plus: this latest volume even connects the lessons to A Framework for K 12 Science Education and the English Language Arts and Literacy Common Core State Standards. Just as teachers have been hoping, Even More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons delivers the whole package: teacher-friendly lessons, strong standards-based science content, and a kid-magnet formula that will get students engrossed in science while they improve their reading skills.

Why read picture books in science class? -- Reading aloud -- Teaching science through inquiry -- BSCS 5E instructional model -- National science education standards -- Bubbles -- Bubble, bubble and pop! a book about bubbles -- How big is a foot? -- How big is a foot? and how tall, how short, how faraway -- Hear your heart -- Hear your heart and The busy body book : a kid's guide to fitness -- Loco beans -- Lucas and his loco beans : a bilingual tale of the Mexican jumping bean -- Wiggling worms -- Diary of a worm and Wiggling worms at work -- Over in the ocean -- Over in the ocean : in a coral reef and Coral reef animals -- Be a friend to trees -- Our tree named Steve and Be a friend to trees -- That magnetic dog -- That magnetic dog and Magnetic and nonmagnetic -- Roller coasters -- Roller coaster and I fall down -- Mirror, mirror -- What did they see? and I see myself -- If you find a rock -- If you find a rock and Rocks : hard, soft, smooth, and rough -- Sunshine on my shoulders -- Sunshine on my shoulders -- Stargazers -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer and Spots of light : a book about stars -- Imaginative inventions -- Imaginative inventions and Leo Cockroach, toy tester -- A sense of wonder -- John Muir, America's naturalist, Rachel Carson : preserving a sense of wonder, and The important book.

Provides fifteen lesson plans that incorporate picture books into the science curriculum.