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Is the Hudson River Too Salty to Drink?
In this puzzle, students examine three different sets of salinity data collected from the Hudson River estuary in New York. The puzzle includes data ...
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In this Data Puzzle, students calculate the amount of precipitation that fell in a watershed over the course of one year and the amount of water that ...
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How Much Heat is Released by a Seafloor Hydrothermal Vent?
In this Data Puzzle, students compare the amount of heat given off by a hydrothermal vent with the amount of heat needed to bring a kettle of water up...
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How the Brain Visually Perceives the World
These classic activities explore how our eyes and brain receive and process visual information. Each activity requires approximately five minutes. For...
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As students try out visual literacy tools, they will begin to “see” concepts and build relationships among ideas by layering new information onto ...
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A single still photographic image can easily communicate a vast amount of information. A photograph can capture the meaning of a complex idea or conce...
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Students encounter a variety of diagrams in their lives that convey a variety of scientific and technical information. This chapter reviews the skills...
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Creating Visual Thinking Tools
When we help students discover tools and techniques for organizing the vast amount of information presented to them, they will be much better prepared...
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Three-Dimensional Graphic Organizers ("Foldables")
A foldable is a three-dimensional graphic organizer that allows learners to record and process new words and concepts in a hands-on, kinesthetic way. ...
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Visual Literacy in Life Science: Insect Metamorphosis
The authors invite you to come with them on a learning journey. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are designed to help you practice your visual literacy teaching s...
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Visual Literacy in Physical Science: Force and Motion
Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are practice chapters. Each chapter provides the appropriate content standards for grades K-4 and 5-8 and several partial lessons...
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In this chapter the authors show that “being literate” is no longer limited to reading and writing. Literacy has come to include much more, includ...
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Understanding Force and Motion
The objects will not change position from their initial rest positions because the downward force on each side of the pulley (ignoring the weight of t...
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Understanding Floating and Sinking
Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, ...
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, ...