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This chapter features a STEM investigation project for intermediate students with real-life connections. The goals for this unit were to help the stud...
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In this chapter, toy testing creatively engages fifth-grade students in engineering design. This toy rocket unit engaged fifth-grade students in an en...
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A “Snapshot of Science” Program brings science and engineering into the library. The lesson described here is part of what we like to call a “Sn...
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An integrative science unit combines science content on severe weather with the engineering design process (EDP). The purpose of this unit is to inter...
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Straw Rockets Are Out of This World
This chapter features STEM activities for upper-elementary students. This lesson gives students the opportunity to experience the joys and challenges ...
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In this chapter, learning about plant structures helps students design water collection devices. This chapter describes the final lesson in a seven-da...
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When confronted with a robotics engineering task, fourth-grade students develop growth mindsets. In this chapter, the tightrope challenge will be disc...
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Model-eliciting activities (MEAs) create opportunities to incorporate new standards and evaluate teacher performance. MEAs are simulated real-world pr...
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This chapter contains information on teaching reading strategies that can help students improve their reading and help them to begin to view reading a...
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How Do You Know That? Helping Students With Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
At one time, teachers were not familiar with the concept of scientific argumentation—the process of making claims and supporting them with evidence....
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This chapter has two main goals. The first is to ease students into the reading procedures by featuring two reading passages. One allows students to p...
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This lesson is designed to introduce students to the key ideas and vocabulary associated with erosion. Students will see erosion at work in a simulati...
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Plate tectonics is the primary theory that drives explanation in geology, but the idea that land masses drift around the Earth can sound as crazy to s...
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The Ocean on Top of a Mountain
In this chapter, students will simulate the “life” of a mountain and then think about what traces of each stage of the mountain’s life are prese...
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Many students have never looked carefully at rocks. For this reason, looking closely at several different types of rocks is important for preparing th...