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This ClassPack for the book chapter “Mirror, Mirror” in More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 includes 14 6x9-in. plastic mirrors, 14 6x9-in. envelopes, 14 flashlights (with batteries), 14 shiny metal spoons, and 14 pieces 5x5-cm aluminum foil.
Using More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
This ClassPack for the book chapter “Mirror, Mirror” in More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 includes 14 6x9-in. plastic mirrors, 14 6x9-in. envelopes, 14 flashlights (with batteries), 14 shiny metal spoons, and 14 pieces 5x5-cm aluminum foil.
This ClassPack for the book chapter “Mirror, Mirror” in More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 includes 14 6x9-in. plastic mirrors, 14 6x9-in. envelopes, 14 flashlights (with batteries), 14 shiny metal spoons, and 14 pieces 5x5-cm aluminum foil.
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Community collaborations
By Mary Bigelow
Posted on 2010-04-23
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During April, many classes are involved with “projects” related to Earth Day themes. If you want your students to go beyond the make-a-poster-about-the-rainforest type of activity, several articles in this issue illustrate how students can become involved members of their own communities.
In Students for Sustainable Energy, physics students investigated how to reduce the need for energy or the switch to alternative forms of energy in their own community. The article has a list of project topics (generated by the students), a discussion of how community businesses and agencies became involved with the students’ projects, a description of the rubric (including a category for the underlying physics concepts used in the project, and lessons learned. NSTA’s SciLinks has lists of websites related to sustainability, sustainable agriculture, and sustainable development.
The Invasive Plant Species Education Guide describes a series of lessons developed to help students learn about the impact of these species in their own communities. (The actual lessons can be found on the project website. SciLinks also has resources on the topics mentioned in the article, including invasive species and classifying plants. I recently looked at USDA’s National Invasive Species Information Center, Alien Invasion, Invasive Weeds, and Alien Plant Invaders.
Local air quality was the theme of the activities in The Air Up There, using the 5E Learning Cycle as a framework. The article has many examples of the graphic organizers and data tables that were used in this investigation. Detecting air pollution is one of the many collections of websites in SciLinks that relates to this topic.
In all of these research projects, sharing the results is an important part of the assessment/evaluation. As an alternative to formal reports or PowerPoint presentations, consider the “symposium” format described in Talk Like a Scientist. The student handout and rubrics are good resources.
The Science 2.0 article Wiki, Wiki! briefly describes how this web tool can be used to create communities of learners within your school as well as beyond the classroom walls to share ideas or results. For more ideas, look at the article Wikis for Science Ed Collaboration from the February issue of NSTA Reports.
Check out the Connections for this issue. Even if the article does not quite fit with your lesson agenda, this resource has ideas for handouts, background information sheets, data sheets, rubrics, etc.
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Using More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
Using More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
*LAST CHANCE! This product is not eligible for return or exchange. All sales are final.*
*LAST CHANCE! This product is not eligible for return or exchange. All sales are final.*
Using More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
Picture-Perfect Science/STEM Lessons are created by classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan. They know elementary educators are crunched for science instructional time and could often use refresher explanations of scientific concepts.
Using More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children’s Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
Picture-Perfect Science/STEM Lessons are created by classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan. They know elementary educators are crunched for science instructional time and could often use refresher explanations of scientific concepts.
Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class of 28 students, are lesson-specific collections of materials—an unmatched time-saver and a great deal.
When young children use magnifiers
By Peggy Ashbrook
Posted on 2010-04-21
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I brought magnifiers into the twos classroom today as a tool for looking at dead insects (and a few other invertebrates) and butterfly eggs on collard plants. The children have used magnifiers many times before but they are always intrigued, and maybe even a little surprised, when things “get bigger”. One child asked why the magnifier made things bigger. I had him feel the shape of the lens to feel how the plastic curved and told him the curve bends the path of light so the image looks bigger. I don’t expect him to understand all of that, but we then looked at a Discovery Bottle which has two balls in water—one floating and one not. The floating pink ball is visible both above and below the waterline, and it looks noticeably bigger under the water. I asked the children, “Is the ball really bigger under the water or does it just look that way?” And then held my finger under a magnifier and asked, “Does my finger look bigger or did it really get bigger?” The children said it just looked bigger but felt my finger to check.
(Note that when we ask either-or questions, we tend to end with the “right” answer: “Should we use the magnifier for digging in the dirt or for looking?” Try to switch it up so you can tell if the children are really thinking about what you are asking or if they are responding to a pattern in questioning. Or ask open-ended questions, such as, “Tell me how this tool should be used.”)
What other experiences with light will prepare children to understand about how light forms images?
Peggy
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