Online Supplementary Files 2003-2021

July/August 2021

Teaching Through Trade Books—Pushing, Pulling, and Predicting Force Patterns

K-2

3-5

Engineering Encounters—Turn Up the Music!

Turn Up The Music Supplemental Resources     

Using Toys to Create a Global Connection

Using Toys Supplemental Resources      

Where in The World?

Where in The World Supplemental Resources

An Engineering Funds of Knowledge Framework

Engineering Funds of Knowledge Framework Supplemental Resources

It’s a Small World After All

It’s a Small World Supplemental Resources

March/April 2021

Crossing Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries

• Crossing Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries resources

Building Picnic Tables…and Community

• Building Picnic Tables lesson plan

Cultivating Place

• Cultivating Place Supplemental Resources

Engineering Your Own Liquid Soap

• A liquid soap Lesson Sequence

January/February 2021

Teaching Through Trade Books: It’s All About Energy!

• NGSS
• Additional resources
• K–2 activity resources
• 3–5 activity resources

Cross-curricular Connections: Teaching Nature of Engineering with Picture Books

• NGSS

Teaching Teachers: Impression Obsession

• NGSS

Engineering Encounters: Trap the Zhu Zhu!

• Rubric
• NGSS
• Materials, Costs, Criteria, Constraints

Start With Phenomena: Why Are There Coral in the Cliffs? 

• NGSS
• Mail from Maya: pictures and letter
• All About Miocene Fossils
• Cliff Treasures Data Collection Chart
• Fossil ID Sheets
• Letter and model directions and rubrics
• Student data: Corals
• Answer Key for Teachers: Student Data Sets

A Light Challenge

• NGSS

Mission Cognition

• Landing sites PowerPoint
• Crew Selection and Packing Challenge
• Landing Site Selection Worksheet
• Phase 2 instructions
• Phase 3 instructions
• Phase 4 instructions
• rubric
• Post Mission Evaluation
• Pre-Post Assessment: Consider All Factors
• NGSS

Innovation and Design

• Checklist for selecting books supporting the EDP
• HyperDoc and presentation rubric
• Integrated unit standards alignment
• Rubric

Inspiring Young Minds

• Science Topic Interest Survey
• Planning Packet
• Presentation Checklist
• Narrowing Problem Down
• Design Goal Plan
• Background Research
• NGSS

November/December 2020

Teaching Through Trade Books

• NGSS
• Additional resources
• K–2 materials
• 3–5 materials

The Early Years

• Interview and resources

Start With Phenomena

• NGSS

Cross-curricular Connections

• Animal cards
• C&C rubric
• CER rubric
• NGSS

Teaching Teachers

• Rubric
• NGSS
• Feedback sheet

Engineering Encounters

• Rubric
• NGSS
• Challenge worksheet

Virtual Sungazing

• Aerial photo
• Assessment table
• NGSS
• Daylight chart
• Daylight comparison photo
• Smithsonian illustration
• Student chart most daylight
• Student chart least daylight

It’s Dark So Early!

• Graph template
• NGSS
• rubric

Dinosaur Detectives

• worksheet 1
• worksheet 2
• NGSS

Decoding the Corn Field

• Materials
• Instructional sequence
• NGSS
• Resources
• Rubric

September/October 2020

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Grade K–2 activity resources
• Grade 3–5 activity resources
• NGSS and Common Core
• Additional texts

The Early Years

• Resources

Teaching Teachers

• Steps and assessment
• NGSS

Engineering Encounters

• Extending engineering NGSS

Start With Phenomena

• Making everyday phenomena phenomenal NGSS

Methods and Strategies

• Standards are not curriculum NGSS

Birds Near and Far

• NGSS
• Claim Evidence Reading graphic organizer
• Report guidelines

Connecting With Community

• Notebook scaffolds and examples
• Connecting With Community student notebook
• NGSS
• Connecting With Community grading chart

Soil Texture 5E

• Mystery bag blank data sheets
• Soil texture 5E evaluation materials
• Soil texture 5E NGSS

Enrichment for All

• Planning page
• NGSS

Cross-curricular Connections

• Migration simulation
• Monarch game instructions
• NGSS

July/August 2020

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Additional texts
• Stop the Spread student data sheet
• Wash Your Hands poster
• What Happens to Germs When ... chart
• Important Information to Know poster template
• What are microbes?
• Seven Steps to Preventing the Spread of the Virus poster
• Stopping the Spread student data sheet

Science Plus ELA: A Natural Fit

• Lesson plan

Bridging the Gap

• Fun facts bubble map
• Try It at Home: Good Vibrations handout
• Where is Science in my Home: Push and Pull handout

Sailing into Engineering

• Design brief
• Poster

April/May 2020

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Land shapers student sheet
• Pictures of land formations
• Positive Points about the Spheres sheet
• Poster graphic organizer template
• Potential topics to research
• River bed set-up directions
• Spheres of the Earth picture
• Spheres student data sheet
• Spheres student research planning sheet
• Stamp sheet template
• Wind and water caused what?

Talking Trash

• Hyperdocs
• Supplemental doc 1: Parent letter—global awareness inquiry unit
• Supplemental doc 2: KWL
• Supplemental doc 3: Trash cycle stations
• Supplemental doc 4: Trash cycle illustration sheet
• Supplemental doc 5: Introduction videos
• Supplemental doc 6: Notes packet for research
• Supplemental doc 7: PSA rubric
• Supplemental doc 8: Criteria for success

Engineering Clean Water

• Rubric

The Early Years

• Book recommendations

Shake a Bush

• Data sheet
• Arthropod data sheet
• Instructions for student exploration

March 2020

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Data and student sheets:
  • If I Built a House
  • It's Made of Parts
  • Matter Models
  • Particle Movement

Model, Assess, Repeat!

• Rubric

Deconstructing Solids

• Rubric

Designing a Model Shoreline

• Criteria
• Materials
• Score chart
• Ask step notebook page
• Improve step notebook page

The Roadster Challenge

• Rubric

Methods and Strategies

• Posters
• Science interest survey

February 2020

In Flight With Paper Airplanes

• Amelia Earhart background info
• Five most important words
• Word sort
• Paper airplanes

Robots and Reading

• Model rubric
• Story rubric
• Steps for a styrofoam robot

Making the Most of a Makerspace

• Maker sprint

Inquiry Zones

• Rubric
• Station outlines

Engineering Encounters

• Data sheet

Methods and Strategies

• Rubric

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Animal characteristics chart
• Animal classification sheet
• Card set A
• Card set B
• Card set C
• Discovering diversity student sheet
• Diversity sorting cards
• Frog and fish picture
• Peppered moth simulation
• Venn diagram

January 2020

The Early Years

• Additional resources for family science

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Change cards
• Its Mass is What?
• What is Happening Change Sheet

Reading Adventures

• Investigation worksheets
• Rubric
• Websites for differentiation

Science Packs

• Feedback form
• Kite activity

At Home with Bats

• Bat house design plan
• Bat research guide
• Bat field study
• Bat measuring
• Bat morphology study
• Bat parent letter
• Bat report
• Portfolio rubric

The Boxcar Challenge Unit

• Boxcar pattern
• Design plan sheet

The Game of Life and Death

• Activity booklet
• Glossary for teachers
• Summative assessment
• Teacher's notes

November 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Animal covering's bag
• Create a cuddly creature
• Dog pictures
• I wear what?
• My observable traits
• Trait cards
• Who wears what?

Discussion Supports Sense-Making Within and Across Lessons

• Rubric

Teaching Teachers

• Living things mini-unit
• Resources

October 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Creating crayons
• Machines help move parts
• Making life easier
• Selecting color student data sheet

Winter Fun Without Wet Mittens

• Materials list
• Mitten data recording sheet
• Rubric

A Home for the Three Little Pigs

• Rubric

Never Too Young to be a Citizen Scientist!

• Appendix: classroom activities
• Example of tulip notebook pages
• Guiding questions for observing
• Guiding questions to identify patterns in data
• Life cycle of tulip student page
• Scaffolding prompts

Computer Science Unplugged

• Rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Engineering design assessment
• KIBO block cards

September 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Parts of a plant
• Planting direction sheet (3–5)
• Survival information sheet
• Teacher direction sheet for starting plants (K–2)
• What's happening with my plant?
• Will my growth be stunted?

"Lightbulb" Moments for All Learners

• Accommodations for physical disabilities
• Safety precautions
• Tiered electricity challenge—above level
• Tiered electricity challenge—below level
• Tiered electricity challenge—on level

Different Strokes for Different Folks

• Data table and graph
• Design challenge sheet
• Engineering, friction, mass checklist
• Cost of making a galimoto
• Teacher schedule
• Prepost test template

Teaching Teachers

• Appendix: Differentiation review
• Appendix: Video vignettes
• Focused observation requests
• Student work samples

August 2019

Let's Take This Show on the Road!

• Antiques Roadshow oral presentation checklist
• Data collection sheet
• Questions for student research
• Suggested texts for researching

Too Many Rain Showers

• Rubric for water diversion structure commercial

Transcending Boundaries

• Assessment rubric
• Things to Consider student organizer

Let's Power Our Future

• Lesson plan
• Flash cards

Methods and Strategies

• Checklist

Teaching Teachers

• Bottle growing systems
• CER template
• CER rubric
• Double bubble thinking map
• EE standards connections
• Light box instructions
• NGSS connections
• Pictograph stickers
• Pictograph template

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Earth's water is found where
• Post card template
• Potential water site reference sheet
• Water formations
• Water report
• World's water information sheet

July 2019

Early Years

• Online resources

Teaching With Trade Books

• A perfect home for a …
• Architecture planning sheet
• How to weigh an elephant
• How we weigh a …
• Types of scales

Making Sense of Night and Day

• Checklist

What Properties Matter?

• Engage phase table
• Evaluate phase student task
• Extension activity
• Submersing an object to find volume
• Unit outline
• Materials list

The Right Kind of Questions

• 5E circuit lesson handout

Writing Like a Scientist

• Light assessment
• Light science notebook

Engineering Encounters

• Brief lesson: 3D printing (boat)

How to make a boat:

Methods & Strategies

• Lightbox construction

April/May 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Zinnias in Space
• Whoo Was for Lunch
• Grow Sheet

Pulley Islands

• Challenge cards
• Quiz
• Rubric

From Global to Local

• Powerpoint
• Rubric

Cultivating Curiosity About Creatures

• Data collection sheet for crayfish in their tanks
• Data collection sheet for videos
• Rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Supplemental materials

Methods and Strategies

• Supplemental assessment

March 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Decision signs
• Event record sheet
• Falling for Gravity student data sheet
• Informational poster sheet

Ramp It Up!

• Rubric

Fraught with Friction

• Appendix A: Making Predictions worksheet
• Appendix B: Drawing Conclusions worksheet
• Appendix C: Rubric for Drawing Conclusions worksheet

Pushes, Pulls, and Playgrounds

• Rubric

Teaching Teachers

• Syllabus summary table
• Virtual image in a plane mirror lab

Methods and Strategies

• Classroom vignette

February 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Graphing the Weather student sheet
• My Favorite Season
• Season cards
• Sunlight observation sheet
• What's the Weather student cards

Simulating a Non-Native Invasion

• Everglades PBL resource list
• M2 C1 LP1 Introduction
• M2 C3 LP5 population game rules with Python info
• M2 C4 LP3 Population Simulation 2 sheet
• Scratch rubric Everglades PBL
• Scratch sample lesson student handout
• Intro letter

A Water Wheel Challenge

• Stored and motion energy worksheet

Unpacking the STEM Disciplines

• Rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Pop-up book graphic organizer
• Unit overview
• Materials list
• Assessments

January 2019

Teaching Through Trade Books

• My Island Visit
• Pass the Energy
• The Sun's Energy
• What Happened to the Ice Cube?

How Do Animals Brush Their Teeth?

• Animal research worksheet
• Crocodile teeth activity book
• Hippo teeth activity book
• Informational text list
• Pair group toothbrush building assessment
• PjBL animal Venn diagram
• Project rubric
• Teeth research template
• Tooth egg liquid soak experiment

From Facts to Solutions

• Climate change final project
• Climate change student journal
• Dear Governor
• Project rubric
• Sophie's persuasive letter

Got Energy?

• Rubric
• Supplemental materials
• Unit overview

City Planners at Work

• Scoring rubrics
• Land and Water PBL SM Student
• Land and Water PBL SM Teacher

Methods and Strategies

• PBL overview blank template
• PBL question map blank template

November/December 2018

Early Years

• Media literary resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Beak explanation sheet
• How animals move
• My beak sheet

Absorbing Visual Literacy

• Diaper science investigation summary rubric

Offshore Oil Drilling

• Oil spill graphic organizer

October 2018

Early Years

• Online resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Erosion station investigation cards
• Erosion station student data sheet
• Plants and Animals Can Change the World student data sheet
• What Humans Do Student data sheet

Following the Current

• Rubric

September 2018

Early Years

• Book list and open-ended questions

Teaching Through Trade Books

• A habitat is a home
• Author guidelines and note sheet
• Brainstorming sheet
• Fish and fossil observation sheet
• Fossil pictures
• Habitat booklet
• Story excerpt cards

Debate, Dialogue, and Democracy Through Science!

• Implementing SSI in your classroom
• Alternative activity
• Full Marsh Madness lesson plan

Engaging in Argumentation

• Summative assessment rubric

Testing Oil Spill Cleanup Methods Ethically

• Rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Resources

Teaching Teachers

• Field trip assignment
• Knovio NGSS assignment
• NGSS score sheet
• Three dimensions of learning assignment

August 2018

Waves Sound Great!

• Instruments lab sheet
• Lesson one student assessment checklist
• Science investigation pitch and volume
• Sound and waves instruments lesson 1

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Company card
• Facts about plastics
• Judges score card
• Objects made from plastic
• Packing materials comparison chart
• Plant information sheet
• Plant investigation information cards
• Plant investigation sheet
• Plant summary sheet

Understanding by Design

• Job descriptions
• Oral assessment
• Rubric

Teaching Teachers

• Sample anchor chart

Engineering Encounters

• Checklist and self-evaluation
• Design rubric
• Observation sheets
• Vocabulary chart

Methods & Strategies

• Observation sheet
• Rubric and formative checklist

July 2018

Science 101

• Figure 1
• Figure 2

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Sun as a Star guide
• Constellation naming sheet
• Overlay grid
• Star brightness investigation sheet
• Star sheet
• Student star chart

Explore Early

• Water exploratory science learning center
• Questions for assessment

Lighting the Way to Learning Centers

• Thinking log
• Circuits

A Mystery in Motion

• Assessment document
• Rubric
• Student checklist

Renovating Our Science Learning Centers

• Challenge example
• CJA template

Teaching Teachers

• Field trip planning guide
• Strategies

Modeling in Learning Centers

• Rubric

April/May 2018

Early Years

• Citizen science resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Civil engineer planning sheet
• Depth chart and color-coded depth chart
• Soundings map student work page

Tracking Nature with Technology

• Rubric

Nurturing Local-to-Global Thinking

• Assessments
• Letter

A Global Perspective

• Crosscurricular connections
• Rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Design scoring rubric
• Materials list
• Rubric for calculations

March 2018

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Teacher diagrams
• The Forces at Work student data sheet (K–2)
• Toying Around With Energy student data sheet (3–5)

School Maker Faires

• Maker Faire descriptions and rubrics
• Assignment overview
• Shadow puppets activity

Plastic Pollution to Solution

• Committee checklists and weekly recycling logs
• Engineering design notebook
• List of makerspace supplies
• PBL project design overview
• Plastic pollution in the ocean worksheet

Mars Mission Specialist

• Mission materials
• Teacher handbook

3D Pitstop Printing

• 3D Pitstop Printing teachers notes
• Engineering reading assignment

Teaching Teachers

• Introduction to NGSS agenda
• NGSS Inside Out: unit redesign challenge
• Preparing your team for the NGSS
• Spotlight on the Crosscutting Concepts agenda

February 2018

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Comparison chart and offspring cards
• How Are We Alike student sheet and parent sheet
• I Get My From sheet and parent sheet
• My Observable Traits
• Plant and offspring card sets

A Dazzling Journey to an Aquarium Ecosystem

• Scientist notebook rubric

Dance Like a Butterfly

• Supplemental Material A—Assessment
• Supplemental Material B—Standards

Engineering Encounters

• Jack and the Beanstalk design challenge

Early Years

• Additional resources
• Animals and offspring example photos

January 2018

Early Years

• Resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Energy quiz template
• Energy trading card
• PowerPoint
• Student sun sheets
• Energy report

Ramps, Balls, and Measuring Distance—for All

• Data sheets
• Rubric

Sounds of Science

• Sound recording sheet
• Sound sort cards
• Sound assessment

Traveling with Science

• Collaboration ideas
• Assessment ideas

Engineering Encounters

• Materials list, resources, and assessment

Methods and Strategies

• Mary Anning
• Isaac Newton
• NGSS
• Resources

Teaching Teachers

• Directions for scientist showcase
• NGSS Connections

December 2017

Early Years

• Book list

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Grade 3–5 image coloring sheet
• Grade 3–5 Morse code messages
• Hello posters
• K–2 messages to send
• K–2 station cards
• Morse code key

Generating Clean Water

• Attitude/interest survey

Let's Get Charged Up

• Novice tier elaborate phase activities

Oh No, Henrietta Got Out!

• Rubric
• Hexbug maze challenge

Save Beady Kid from the Sun

• Beady person instructions
• Kid rubric and handouts
• Instructions
• Revised beady kid rubrics and handouts

When is Melting Not Really Melting?

• Observable Silly Putty properties

Engineering Encounters

• Student sheets and assessments

November 2017

Early Years

• Additional resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Additional texts
• It's Getting Hot student data sheet 3–5
• Swimtastic student data sheet K–2

Swimming in New Vocabulary

• Vocabulary rubric

More Than Data

• Rubric

A Cucurbit Ripe for Building Vocabulary

• Internet resource
• Materials
• Timeline

The Case of Polar Bears

• Rubrics
• Table

Engineering Encounters

• Changes student investigation
• Checklist
• Project intro
• Self-reflection

Methods and Strategies

• Assessment chart

October 2017

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Animal charade cards
• Animal comparison sheet
• Animal group sheet
• Animal information sheet
• Bird fact sheet

There's a Zoo in Our Room!

• Animal sorting cards

Scaly, Slimy Fun in Prekindergarten

• Rubric for frog habitat activity

How Do Plants Prepare for the Winter?

• Questions to guide the adaptation of the investigation to your local area

The Paper Airplane Challenge

• Paper airplane table
• Paper plane challenge (PowerPoint)
• Performance expectations

September 2017

Early Years

• Examples of questions and comments

Teaching Through Trade Books

• The Eyes Have It sheet
• Using tools to solve a task

Professional Development in Real Time

• 5E lesson plan

Creating STEM Kits for the Classroom

• STEM kit checklist

Scientists Overnight

• Activities
• Openers

Summer 2017

Early Years

• Book List

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Data Collection Sheet for Scientists Grades K–2
• Ideas for Citizen Science Projects Grades K–2
• Infographic Direction Sheet
• Science Research Outline Sheet

Toad-ally Cool Math and Science Integration

• CER Rubric

Bubble Babies

• Bubble Survivorship Activity

Gaining Traction

• Bess Beetle Mini Experiments Lab Report
• Bess Beetle Observation Lab Report
• Bess Beetle Penny Pull Lab Report
• Improving Bess Beetle Traction Lab Report
• Improving Traction and Reducing Friction Lab Report
• My Life as a Bess Beetle Rubric
• Reducing Friction Lab Report
• Worksheet

Methods and Strategies

• Methods and Strategies Questions

Engineering Encounters

• Rubric
• Self-assessment

April/May 2017

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Crime scene sheet
• Materials testing sheet
• Mystery powders test sheet

Clean It Up!

• Separating mixtures assessment rubric
• Separating mixtures worksheet

Colorful Chemistry

• Teal

If the Shoe Fits, Sort It!

• Example evaluation and rubric for sheets extension
• Blank flowchart

Describing Matter

• Object sheet

Engineering Encounters

• Project overviews, rubric, and reading list

March 2017

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Rabbit/hare pictures
• "Savvy seeds" student sheet
• Additonal texts
• Teacher resources
• "Where in the world" student sheet

Waiting for the Monarch

• Rubric

Preparing for the Eclipse

• Materials lists

February 2017

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Making of Mountains activity sheet
• "Passport" activity sheet
• Table tent template

Countdown to the Great American Eclipse

• Eclipse viewer materials
• Eclipse viewer instructions

January 2017

The Early Years

• Resources for Technology in Early Childhood

Methods and Strategies

• Additional Activity
• Investigation Design Template
• Observation worksheet
• Oral presentation checklist
• Practices
• Student work sample

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Pinhole box directions
• Grade 3–5 Student Data Sheet
• Animal sort cards
• Human body diagrams
• K–2 Student Data

Engineering Encounters

• EE Annotated Materials

Constructing Arguments With 3–D Printed Models

• Challenge Guide

Zooming in on Science

• Materials list and safety note

December 2016

The Early Years

• Soil temperature chart
• Potato planting resources
• Trade books about potatoes

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Sorting cards
• Sound signals student data sheet
• Sound station cards
• Words

Scratching Records

• Handout
• Rubric

The Physics of Sound

• Sample checklists

Making Sense of Sound

• Sound science 1
• Sound science 2
• Sound science 3

Understanding Energy

• Summative evaluation (answer key)

Engineering Encounters

• Assessment
• Bookmark Booklights
• Doodle Bot
• Makey-Makey

November 2016

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Me and Leo Notebook
• My Nature Journal

Engineering Encounters

• 5E Science Lesson

Sensing Matter—Is It a Liquid or Solid?

• Discourse Sticks
• Recording List Checklist
• Recording Sheet
• Report Checklist
• Preassessment

Read All About It

• Blank Matrix
• Resources
• Rubric

Put Your Walls to Work

• Interactive Word Wall Expectations

October 2016

Early Years

• Additional resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• 3–5 PSA Announcement Guidelines
• K–2 Studying Severe Storms
• Protect Your House
• Additional texts

Storm Warning

• Performance task

What's Shaking?!

• Apps
• Engineering Challenge rubric
• Earthquake Simulation student chart
• Data chart

In Our Neighborhood: Who's Been Here?

• Lesson plan
• Rubric

Science and Superheroes

• Differentiation
• Summative assessment

September 2016

Engineering Encounters

• Parent Volunteer Letter
• Popsicle ad checklist
• Test tasting sheet

Seeing Science in Haiku

• Assessment checklist
• Safety tips for outdoors

Remaking Science Fairs

• Three-part assessment rubric
• Project packet
• Science Convention Timeline
• Safety Precautions

Bringing the Maker Movement to School

• Assessments
• Project mini poster

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Grades K–2 student brainstorming sheet
• Grades 3–5 student brainstorming sheet
• Frame picture
• Additional texts

Summer 2016

Native Plants and Seeds, Oh My!

• Main Idea and Detail
• Microscope
• Planning Experimental Inquiry

Who Is Your Champion?

• Biomimicry Information and Links
• Lesson Sequence
• Biomimicry Lesson
• Model Rubric for Biomimicry Challenge

Teaching Through Trade Books

• 3–5 Student Data Sheet: Commonalities in Life Cycles
• Additional Texts
• Helmet and Shell Pictures for K–2 Activities
• K–2 Student Data Sheet: The Purpose of Parts
• Pictures for 3–5 Activity

Learning About Plants with STEAM

• Rubric

Stalk It Up to Integrated Learning

• Explore Data Recording Sheet
• Reading Prompts

Making the Transition to Three-Dimensional Teaching

5th Grade Shadow Explanation:

Sunrise–Sunset:

April/May 2016

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Design an Investigation Think Sheet
• Pill bug observation sheet

Meta-Sticks

• Assessment

Science in Sync

• Resources
• Template

March 2016

Teaching Through Trade Books

• 3–5 student data sheet
• K–2 student data sheet
• Additional resources

Engineering Encounters

• Worksheets and rubric

Understanding Human Impact

• Lesson 1 assessment
• Lesson 2 assessment
• Lesson 3 assessment
• Lesson 4 assessment
• Lesson 5 assessment

Crabby Interactions

• Blue Crabs—The Struggle for Life
• Introduction to Blue Crabs

Formative Assessment Probes

• "Is It Erosion or Weathering" probe

Capturing Insects and Student Interest

• Data collection sheets
• Rubric

Aquaponics

• Assessment

The Lorax Readers' Theater

• Rubric
• Handout

February 2016

Amazing Muses of Science

• Assessment
• Rubric

Mars Colony

• Assessment

Luminous Lighting

• Rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Keynote presentation

Ornithologists By Design

• Shorter bird tally

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Crayon observation sheet
• Crayon postcard template

January 2016

Made for the Shade

• Amazon links
• Interview and rubric
• Materials needed and photos of balloon bottle demonstration

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Grades 3–5 student data sheet reverse
• Grades 3–5 student data sheet
• Grades K–2 student data sheet
• Puppet template
• Additional resources

Engineering Motion

• Lesson plan

Team 1 video:

Team 7 video:

Assessing the Unseen

• Interview and rubric
• Unit map

Engineering Encounters

• Homework rubric
• Homework sheet
• POE sheet

December 2015

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Grade 3–5 daylight graph
• Grade 3–5 data sheet
• Grades K–2 student data sheet
• Additional resources

Engineering Encounters

• Accessibility analysis and evaluation form

Formative Assessment Probes

• FAP: mountaintop fossil

Map That Find!

• Site record sheet
• Safety tips for the outdoors

Fossil Explorers

• Blank data sheet
• PowerPoint slides
• Evaluation sheet

Patterns in the Sky

• Moon phase tracking sheet

Embodying Earth's Place in the Solar System

• Data table

Seeing the Solar System Through Two Perspectives

• Assessment sample questions

November 2015

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K–2 student data sheet—It's Toy Time
• 3–5 student data sheet
• 3–5 two-page spread
• Additional resources

Poetry Rocks!

• Poem template
• Rubric
• Safety tips for outdoors

Putting Ideans on Paper

• Sound and light activity CER framework rubrics
• Student handout: Effects of States of Matter on Sound and Light
• Teacher handout: Effects of States of Matter on Sound and Light

Early Years

• Extra resources

Engineering Encounters

• Rubric

Formative Assessment Probes

• Lemonade probe

Programming Digital Stories and How-To Animations

• General management tips

Map It Then Write It!

• Thinking maps

Science for Two Voices

• S-T rubric

October 2015

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K–2 student data sheet
• 3–5 student data sheet
• Additional resources
• Pictures of water uses

The Early Years

• Clothing Observation Log
• Clothing Observation Graph
• Graph images

Speleothems and Sand Castles

• 5E Lesson Plan

Using Models Scientifically

• Rubric

Animal Detectives

• Additional Resources
• Journal Prompt
• Observational assessment checklist
• Unit Overview
• Summative Rubric

NGSS in Action

• Safety Tips for Outdoors
• NGSS Architecture

Methods and Strategies

• Template and Completed Table

September 2015

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K–2 student data sheet
• 3–5 student data sheet
• Additional resources

The Early Years

• Examples of engineering design in the classroom and additional resources

Formative Assessment Probes

• Where Do I Put the Switch? probe

SCAMPERING Into Engineering

• Blank SCAMPER brainstorming sheet

Gimmie an "E"!

• List of resources

Designing a Sound-Reducing Wall

• Assessment and answer key, rubric, and additional resources and supporting information

The EDP-5E

• Assessment and answer key, rubric, and additional resources and supporting information

Community-Based Engineering

• Outdoor safety tips and rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Common Core State Standards connections

Summer 2015

Formative Assessment Probes

• Snap Blocks probe

The Early Years

• Additional books and resources

Let's Hear It for Ladybugs!

• Rubric

Smashing Milk Cartons

• Rubric

Families Learning Together

• Details about the gummy bear launch, the NGSS connections for the catapult activity, and suggested assessment measures for each activity
• Pre- and post-event survey

Methods and Strategies

• Self-assessment checklist

April/May 2015

A Constant of Change

• Change notebook rubric

What Happens When an Environment Changes?

• Chart: eating and being eaten

The Power of Water

• Data collection sheet
• Worksheets and probes
• Large-scale flooding images
• Step-by-step instructions and materials list
• Glossary
• Rubric
• Background information for teachers
• Additional resources

Ring! Ring! Science Calling

• Rubric

Early Years

• A list of children's picture books about change over time

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Worksheet: grades K–2
• Worksheet: grades 3–5
• Additional texts

Formative Assessment Probes

• No More Plants probe

March 2015

Early Years

• Data collection sheets and a list of books about painting

Formative Assessment Probes

• Describing Soil probe

Inviting Engineering Into the Science Lab

• Complete lesson plans and the rubric

Our Garden Plot Thickens

• Rubric

Blade Structure and Wind Turbine Function

• Group data sheets, results sheet, engineering design process sheet, and rubric

Bringing Your Classroom to Life

• Rubric
• Safety guidelines for outdoor exploration

Engineering Encounters

• Description of the centers

Methods and Strategies

• Planning template, outdoor safety tips, and rubric

February 2015

Go With the Flow

• Field trip safety tips, rubrics, and a full description of the soda bottle ecosystem lesson

How Does My Brain Pay Attention?

• Activity tips and resources
• Blank versions of the handouts

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Data sheet and pictures for the 3–5 activity

Engineering Encounters

• For the complete KWL chart, the water quality issues analysis chart, water filtration KWL worksheet, and the rubric

January 2015

Formative Assessment Probes

• Ice Cubes in a Bag Probe

The Early Years

• Suggestions for a data record sheet for a coat collection exhibit

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Bee cutout

Into the Watery World

• Safety Issues When Planning and Conducting Field Trips and Field Experiences document and the Field Trip/Field Experience Permission Slip

Virtual Modeling

• Pre- and postassessments

Design in the Watershed

• Handouts, data sheet, and the rubric
• Safety tips

Engineering Encounters

• Sample cooperative grading sheet, the systems template, and the formal rubric

Methods and Strategies

• Templates of the Venn diagram and the "How to Make Pickles" assignment

December 2014

Formative Assessment Probes

• Watermelon and Grape probe

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student data sheets

Observing Life in a Square

• Outdoor safety tips

Gliding Into Understanding

• Representative scoring guide

Shrieks and Shrills

• Rubric

Bee-Wild About Pollinators

• Preassessment, parts-of-a-bee recording sheet, wacky words worksheets, and queen bee–worker bee Venn diagram

Cinderella Separates a Mixture

• Record sheets

Engineering Encounters

• Design challenge handout, scoring rubric, and a sample lesson plan

November 2014

The Wonderful World of World

• Worksheets in English and Spanish

Real-World Units in the Conceptual Age

• Student work samples, a list of books used in the unit with Lexile levels, and an outline of the other investigations

What Is a Foot Under Your Feet?

• Unit plan and detailed lesson plans (including the rubric)

Teaching Through Trade Books

• The Tower Drop formative assessment probe

Engineering Encounters

• Examples of student work, the rubric, and more

Methods and Strategies

• Self-assessment checklist

Safety First

• Handout with safety tips to distribute to parents

October 2014

A seQRet Treasure Hunt

• Picking the Path suggestion sheet, the rubric, and the outdoor safety suggestions

Modeling Water Filtration

• Challenge letters, water filtration questions worksheet, filter ranking letter template, and rubric

A Pattern in the Sky

• Table of enduring understandings, objectives, and activities, and the Phases of the Moon assessment checklist

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K–2 activity data sheet
• 3–5 activity data sheet
• Annotated list of additional resources

The Early Years

• List of resources

Engineering Encounters

• Design and Build a Compost Column design brief, decomposition research resources, and the rubric

September 2014

How Do Scientists Work?

• Data recording sheet, conclusion template, conclusion questions handout, and modified formative assessment probe

Taking the "Mystery" Out of Argumentation

• Blank data table

Three, Two, One … Blast Off!

• Data and design sheets and scoring rubrics

Integrating the Nature of Science

• Outdoor field trip safety tips

Formative Assessment Probes

• Is It a Theory? probe

The Early Years

• Trade book recommendations

Teaching Through Trade Books

• A list of space exploration resources and The Known Universe: Then and Now Sorting Cards

Engineering Encounters

• Blank copies of the engineer planning sheet and the self-assessment rubric
• Build your own LEGO device step-by-step photos

Summer 2014

Channeling Your Inner Entomologist

• Complete sample lesson plan

Inspire Day

• Inspire Day lesson descriptions, a lesson plan for the seed germination activity, and a full-day schedule of events

Family Science Day

• Sample exhibitor's letter, puppet lesson, and survey

Big Project, Small Leaders

• Tips on starting a service learning project with your students and notes about safety

Informal Science Learning in the Formal Science Classroom

• List of websites offering free elementary science curricula

It's a Zoo Out There

• "Radar Ears" listening chart

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K–2 and 3–5 student data sheets
• Additional resources

Methods and Strategies

• List of possible funders

Engineering Encounters

• Where's the Filter? activity sheet
• Activity sheets and evaluation summary

April/May 2014

Observe, Explain, Connect

• Poetry book recommendations and an NGSS disciplinary core idea reading guide for The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science (Vardell and Wong 2014)

Friction in Different Languages

• Data table

Putting the "Her" in Science Hero

• List of female scientists sorted by science discipline, the organizational chart, student choice chart, a student term paper rubric and organizational aid, a teacher rubric for evaluating presentations, and a student reflection worksheet

Assessments in the Arguments

• List of common misconceptions about light and the rubric

Teaching Through Trade Books

• My Tree student page, From Seed to Tree article, Lift the Flap poem template, and suggested books
• Is It Living? formative assessment probe
• Is It Food For Plants? formative assessment probe

The Early Years

• Resources about early childhood science, recording and reflecting on teacher-child interactions, and teaching children about ice and water

Methods and Strategies

• Science trade book suggestions

March 2014

Our World Without Decomposers: How Scary!

• My World Without Decomposers cartoon worksheet, rubric, rotting log observation sheet, and list of outdoor safety guidelines
• In-class decomposer observation page

Exploring Nature Through a New Lens

• Lesson preparation steps, full materials list, sample group and student responses, list of book titles with reference information, and sample rubric

How Healthy Is Our Pond?

• Data collection rubric, presentation rubric, and water test descriptions

Growing Gardens, Growing Minds

• Sample third-grade module and a suggested yearlong progression for the schoolwide event

The Amazing Ecology of Pill Bugs

• Outdoor safety guidelines

Science Shorts: Is This Alive?

• List of criteria for living things, the initial class list of living things, trade book suggestions, and rubric, outdoor safety tips
• Picture cards
• Living/nonliving T-chart
• Writer's workshop worksheet

Early Years

• Trade book selections

Safety First

• Outdoor safety tips

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Additional resources
• K–2 student page
• 3–5 student page

February 2014

Do You Hear What I Hear?

• Guitar handout, science journal rubric, and oral presentation rubric
• Guitar handout answer key

The Sound of Science

• Design brief and examples of student instrument designs

Close Encounters of the Amphibious Kind

• KLEW chart and a sample notebook entry rubric

Creative Sound Dramatics

• Model evaluation rubric

From Vibration to Vocalization

• Detailed directions for using Audacity, elaborate phase resources including frog call reference material, the engage stage probe, and frog call data sheet
• Board game template (PowerPoint file)

The Early Years

• Suggested reading for teachers and trade book titles

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Animal sounds trifold brochure

Methods and Strategies

• Suggested life science readings

Science Shorts

• Sound card sort template

Recognizing Excellence

• Book and website suggestions and the summative assessment rubric

January 2014

NGSS Guest Editorial

• NGSS chart with Common Core State Standards connections and additional resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student data sheets, a list of trade books, and additional resources

The Early Years

• List of trade books and additional resources

Let’s Get Physical

• Lesson plans and instructions for creating an adaptive graduated cylinder

Culture Matters in Science Education

• Chart of culturally relevant principles in science with examples in instruction, curriculum, and visuals/charts/graphs

What’s the Weather Like Today?

• Rubric

NGSS for English Language Learners

• Rubric

The Power of Multimodal Representations

• Evaluating My Classmates' Arguments template and Claims and Evidence writing scaffold
• Claims and Evidence writing scaffold (color-coded PDF)

Methods and Strategies: Learning Science in Cultural Context

• Natural resources graphic organizer booklet

December 2013

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student Pages
• Hours of Daylight Excel Graph
• Cake Cutouts

The eBook Hook

• Connections, including the following: List of print and electronic trade books; rubric

Making Connections Between the Digital and Physical World

• Connections, including the following: Materials list, design constraints, and points system

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia Seed Science

• Connections, including the following: Chia nutrition label, chia taste test data sheet, letter to parents (in English and Spanish) with recipes, sentence scaffolds, and summative assessment
• Blank nutrition label worksheet
• Home/school connection blank nutrition label

Can We Be Garbage Free?

• Job descriptions, conclusion worksheet, rubric

Engineering Encounters

• Connections, including the following: Objectives and rubrics
• Useful properties student response sheet
• Student bait graph with printable bait

Science Shorts

• Connections, including the following: Investigation checklist, assessment checklist, and investigative questions and connections to the NGSS

Early Years

• Connections, including the following: Children’s books with recipes and other resources

November 2013

Assessing for Achievement

• Connections, including the following: Explore phase checklist, Rubric, and Tracking Chart

Formative Assessment Probes

• Is It Melting? Probe

…And Action!

• Sample Script Plan

Seeing the Science

• Student Background Information

Simply Performance Assessment

• Connections, including the following: Rubric Assessing the Process; Rubric Assessing the Product

Crystal Clean Assessment

• Connections, including the following: Experimental Design Worksheet; Presentation Rubric

The Early Years

• Suggested Books

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student Data Sheets

October 2013

Wacky Weather

• Connections, including the following: Severe Weather Research Sheet, Severe Weather Websites, Weather Instruments Matching Activity Sheet, Sample Chart and Graph with Data from Weather Instruments, Rubric, and Severe Weather Alert Chart
• Internet Safety Note

Straw Rockets Are Out of This World

• Connections, including the following: Materials Resources, Activity Instructions, Data and Analysis Sheets, and Rubric for Straw Rockets Activity

Global STEM Navigators

• Rubric
• Internet Safety Note

Electromagnetic Induction

• Connections, including the following: Detailed Lesson Plans, Student Handouts, and Teacher Tools

Measuring Success

• Worksheets
• Field Trip Safety Tips

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student Pages

Formative Assessment Probes

• Swinging Pendulum Probe

September 2013

Science 101

• FLV Microscope

The Moon Challenge

• Project Template
• Class Report

Desert Survivors!

• Play Scripts, Rubric, Data Sheets, and Internet Safety Note

What Does Culture Have To Do With Teaching Science?

• Sample Plant Survey

Science as a Second Language

• DOTS and U-C-ME Charts

Small Wonders Close Encounters

• Rubric and Digital Microscope Activities

The Early Years

• Trade Books and Resources

Formative Assessment Probes

• When Is the Next Full Moon? Probe

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student Data Sheets
• Suggested Internet Resources

Methods and Strategies

• How Far Did It Go? Probe

July 2013

The Early Years

• Connections

Formative Assessment Probes

• Connections

Methods and Strategies: Greenteam!

• Connections

Horton

• Connections

Weiss

• Connections

TTTB

• Connections

Kuhn

• Connections

Tank

• Connections

Internet Safety Note

• Connections

April 2013

The Dynamic Earth: Recycling Naturally!

• Clue Sheet
• Rock Cycle Activity Sheets

Digging Into Rocks With Young Children

• Investigating Properties of Rocks Datasheet
• Rubric for Rock Drawings

Washed Away!

• Field Trip Safety Guidelines

Journaling: A Bridge Between School and Home

• Sample Habitat Journal Assignment Sheet
• Sample Habitat Journal Rubric
• Directions for the Family Journal

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Let’s Learn About Water Anticipation Guide
• Earth Then and Now Student Page

The Early Years

• Additional Resources

Formative Assessment Probes

• Is It a Rock? Probe

Methods and Strategies

• Citing Sources Rubric
• Note-Taking Rubric
• Video/Script Rubric
• Science Objectives and Content Standards Rubric

March 2013

Supercharging Lessons With a Virtual Lab

• Summative Assessment

Get Connected

• Nature Journal Observation Checklist

How Much Trash Do You Trash?

• Rubric Guidelines, Project Calendar, and Data Organization Example

Bat Bonanza

• Rubric
• 5E Lesson

Vision + Community = Outdoor Learning Areas

• Outdoor Classroom Faculty Survey

The Early Years: Static Electricity: The Shocking Truth

• Trade Book Titles
• Links to Exploratorium Static Electricity Activities

Formative Assessment Probes: When Equipment Gets in the Way

• Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires Probe

Safety First

• Getting Wired On Safety
• Elementary Science Safety Acknowledgement Form

Methods and Strategies: Birds of a Feather…

• Curricular Connections to Other Disciplines
• Trade Books

February 2013

Indoor-Outdoor Science

• Safety Guidelines for Outdoor Explorations

Making Connections Through Conversation

• Animal Care Chart Template
• Safety Notes
• Additional Literary Resources

Compost: The Rot Thing for Our Earth

• Safety Guidelines for Outdoor Explorations

Plants, Alike and Different

• Lesson: Similarities and Differences Between Parents and Offspring
• Rubric

The Wonder of Worms

• Worm Misconceptions Table
• Worm Bin Materials List and Worm Diets Lesson
• Worm Journal

Does What I Eat and Drink Affect My Teeth?

• Prediction Table
• Findings Table

Teaching Through Trade Books: Figuring Out Food Chains

• Food Chain Websites
• Student Data Sheets
• Organism Cards

The Early Years: “Life” Science

• Additional Resources, Children’s Books, and Supply Suggestions

Formative Assessment Probes: Labeling Versus Explaining

• Chrysalis Probe

Methods and Strategies: I Wonder…

• Polymers Handout
• Reflect and Rethink Journal Page

January 2013

Shedding the Light on Engineering Design

• SLED Model for Engineering Design
• Client Cards
• Rubric
• List of Trade Books for Various Grade Levels

Constructing and Critiquing Arguments

• Reflection Template

Cost or Quality?

• Evaluation Rubric
• Egg-Packing Price Sheet
• Diagram of the Engineering Design Process

Ducks Overboard!

• Data Sheet
• Sample Rubric

Strong Stems Need Strong Sprouts!

• Timeline
• Additional Literary Resources

Taking Engineering Design Out for a Spin

• Whirligig Template

Early Years

• Ideas on Connecting Across the Curriculum
• Weather Symbol Strips and Tally Chart
• Rainfall Recording Sheet
• Temperature Recording Sheet
• List of Additional Teacher Resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• One Handy Thing Student Page
• New Invention Student Page
• Edison Quote Strips

Formative Assessment Probes

• Solids and Holes Probe

December 2012

It’s No Problem To Invent a Solution

• List of Trade Books

The Science of Safety

• Family Letter
• Rubric
• Additional Print Resources

Limestone or Wax?

• Properties of Materials Chart

The Great Build-A-Buoy Challenge

• Student Instructions and Materials List

Early Years: Please Touch Museum

• Additional Trade Books and Online Resources

Mountain Age: Creating a Classroom Profile

• Mountain Age Probe

Science Shorts: Is Concrete a Rock?

• “Is It a Rock?” Probe
• Exploration Table Worksheet
• During the Video Worksheet
• Elaborate Worksheet

November 2012

Teaching Through Trade Books

• How Did That Get in My Lunch Box? Student Data Sheet
• Where in the World Did My Food Come From? Student Data Sheets

Formative Assessment Probes

• “Birthday Candles” Formative Assessment Probe

Soil Science in the Digital Age

• Outdoor Safety Guidelines
• Getting to Know Soil Student Activity Sheet 2
• Soil Treasure Hunt Student Activity Sheet 2

Hats Off to Science

• Sample Letter to Parents
• Forum Note-Taking Organizer
• Post-Vocabulary Parade Survey

Putting Science Literacy on Display

• Nonfiction Text Feature Assessment Sheet and Completed Sample Copy
• Bibliography of Weather Books

Sparking Old and New Ideas

• I See It! Organizer

October 2012

Science Shorts: Modeling Light and Shadows

• Light and Shadows Loop
• Light and Shadows Loop Key
• 5E Lesson on Light and Shadows

Formative Assessment Probe: Talking About Shadows

• Me and My Shadow

The Spider Files

• Safety Tips for Outdoor Exploration
• List of Trade Books about Spiders

The Early Years

• Additional Resources
• Picture of Unassembled Viewing Frame
• Pattern for Viewing Frame

Storybook Science

• Additional Book Titles

Selecting Appropriate Topics

• List of Common Elementary Student Science Misconceptions

Changes Matter

• Preassessment Examples, Changes Stations, and Reversible Changes Sheet
• Preassessment Answer Sheet, Paper Cutting Demo Instructions, Chemical and Physical Changes Picture Sheet, and Sample Class Checklist of Changes
• Walking Tour Changes Chart

May the Magnetic Force Be With You

• Magnetic Object Classroom Hunt Chart

More Is Less

• Diagram and Charts

September 2012

Read—and Walk—to Antarctica

• Letter to Parents

Chef of the Week

• Parent Information Letter

Inquiry Takes Time

• Inquiry Form
• Inquiry Template

This is Inquiry, Right?

• Lesson Plan

Science Shorts: From Soda to Smoothies

• Smoothie Plan Student Worksheet

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K–4 Butterfly Observation Sheet
• 4–6 Frog Observation Sheet

Early Years

• Book List and Additional Resources

Formative Assessment Probes

• Catching a Cold Probe

July 2012

Building a Community of Scientists

• Nature Walk Check List
• Favorite Nature Walk Observation
• Observations: Using your Senses during a Nature Walk
• Rubric

Managing Your Classroom for Success

• Classroom Procedure PPT
• Procedure

The Larger View

• Insect Documentation Assessment

Mystery Box Marvels

• Collaborative Self-Evaluation

Start with Science

• Field Trip Safety

Formative Assessment Probes

• Where Did the Water Come From Probe

Early Years

• Resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Scientists Alphabet
• Word Card

April/May 2012

FAP—Is It Food For Plants

• Probe

Just Me and You—and the Whole Community Down by the Stream

• Activities and Materials
• Safety Tips
• Experiment Steps

Is Your Soil Sick

• Rubric

Science Shorts: Truffula Tree Troubles

• Harvesting Data Table
• Wrap-Up Worksheet

Slithering into Summer

• Checklist
• Dichotomous Keys
• Herpetology Programs
• Pre and Post Assessments

Solar Energy Fun in the Sun

• Worksheet

Studying Zooarchaelogy

• PowerPoint
• Data Card
• Assessment Rubric

Recognizing Excellence

• Field Trip Safety Tips
• Monitoring Water Parameters PowerPoint
• Parameter Worksheet
• Chaperone Notes
• Monthly Datasheet
• Yearly Datasheet
• Parameter Worksheet Answers

The Early Years

• Summer Activity Resources
• Summer Notebook Template

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Books
• Nature Notebook Template

March 2012

Banishing Bradford Pears

• Rubric

Birds Across Borders

• Safety Tips
• Assessment Questions
• Winter Bird Log
• Feeder Instructions

Bringing Antarctica Home = Penguins

• Design Sheet
• Materials for One Class
• Teachers' Background Information

Early Years

• Animal Observation Log

Methods and Strategies

• Interview with Families

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Garbage by the Numbers: Student Page
• Garbage by the Numbers: Answer Key

February 2012

Bringing Antarctica Home

• Rubric

It's Tradition

• Activity Chart

Lab With Dad

• Invitation
• Metric Olympics Data Table

Never Too Cool for School

• Evaluation

Reinventing the Bridge

• Student Information Sheets
• Redesign Reflection Prompts
• Final Bridge Reflection Prompts

Science Sack

• Sunset Activity
• Safety

Weekend Science Project

• Data Sheet
• Safety Tips

Early Years

• Activity “Mirror, Mirror”
• Resource List

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Data Sheet

Science Shorts

• Family Letter
• Resources

Formative Assessment Probes

• Can It Reflect Light?

January 2012

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Student Page “Toys in Space”

Shadow Play

• Sample Question Types

Formative Assessment Probes

• Objects in the Sky Probe

Is a Mealworm Really a Worm?

• Rubric

Landing Safely on Mars

• Pre- and Posttest Questions, Rubric, and Resource List

Reach for the Stars!

• Suggested Websites and Resources

Science 101

• Image

December 2011

Time for Slime

• Tips and Data Sheet
• Preparing Grass Infusion Cultures

Caught on Video!

• Online Extensions
• Rubric

Formative Assessment Probes

• Pond Water Probe

Science Shorts

• Assessment Rubric
• “Build a Dinosaur” Kit
• Internet and Print Resources
• Observation and Prediction Handout

November 2011

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Owl Chart

Formative Assessment Probes

• Is It Living?
• Is It an Animal?

Methods and Strategies

• Activity Station Descriptions and a Complete Science Lesson
• Sound Song

Nurturing the Child Scientist

• Checklist
• Measuring Worksheet
• Weighing Worksheet

Observation Station

• Assessment Rubric

Prairie Stories

• Graphic Organizer

October 2011

Formative Assessment Probes

• Talking About Forces Probe

Inquiry Science and Active Reading

• Sideways Force Testing
• Blackout Reading Activity Materials
• Crazy Shapes Activity Sheet
• Postassessment
• Prediction Sheet

The NOS Challenge

• Unit Timeline

May the Force Be With You!

• Data Collection Sheet

September 2011

Sizing Up the Solar System

• Assessment Questions
• Conversion Chart
• Rubric

Teaching Through Trade Books

• OWL Chart
• Internet Resources
• Earthquakes Anticipation Guide

Methods and Strategies

• Model Lesson

Make Your Own Snow Day

• Comparison Table
• Snowflake Cutting Instructions

Formative Assessment Probes

• Emmy’s Moon and Stars

Summer 2011

The Early Years

• Sample Group Chart

Step Up to Full Inquiry

• Conclusion Questions

The Case of Lobster Shell Disease

• Sample Lesson Plan

Whoooo Knew?

• Answer Key

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Animal Migration Scoring Sheet

Museum Connections

• Assessment Checklist

April/May 2011

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Hurricane Felix (2007)
• Hurricane Katrina
• Data Worksheet
• Hurricane Dolly (2008)
• Hurricane Stan

Sharing Digital Data

• Rubric

Science Shorts

• Making Anenometers
• Journal Rubric
• More Activities
• Journal
• Activity Modifications

Formative Assessment Probes

• Is It Living?

Early Years

• Play Dough Data Chart

Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning

• Rubric

Calendar

• May

A Standards-Based Science Fair

• Kudos Card

March 2011

Fire Up the Inquiry

• Inquiry Skills Assessment

Lose the Recipe

• Radish Seed Growth Chart

Formative Assessment Probes

• The Mitten Problem

February 2011

Concept-Based Learning

• Assessment Rubric
• Letter

Formative Assessment Probes

• Needs of Seeds

Outdoor Integration

• Monarch Butterflies Resource Books
• Record Sheet
• Seed Resource Books

Science Shorts

• Worksheet

What’s the Next Step?

• Blank Student Worksheet
• Student Work Sample 1
• Student Work Sample 2

January 2011

Measure Lines

• Concept Cartoons
• Measure Lines Concept Cartoon

Shadows That Enlighten

• Images from the Planets app.

Formative Assessment Probes

• How Far Did It Go? Probe

Methods and Strategies

• Volunteer Recruitment Suggestions
• Planning Timeline
• Build It Activity
• Passport Page: All About Birds
• Passport Page: Build It!
• Activity Ideas

December 2010

Science Shorts

• Resource List

Curiosity+Kindergarten

• Self-Assessment Checklist

Formative Assessment Probes

• To Hypothesize or Not Probe

People Behind the Science

• Particles Story
• Animal Story
• Galileo Story

November 2010

FAP Life Cycles

• FAP Life Cycles

Interactive Reflective Log

• Interactive Reflective Log

Learn English Learn Science

• Sentence Frames

Nature Detectives

• Blank Data Chart
• KWL Chart
• Project Reflection
• Rubric
• Scavenger Hunt Worksheet

Reuse That Notebook

• Rubric
• Self Assessment

Teaching Through Trade Books

• K2OWL Notebook

October 2010

Inference or Observation

• Tree Diagram

A Walk in the Woods

• Classroom Activities
• Post-Visit Discussion Field Trip 1
• Pre-Visit Discussion Field Trip 1
• Sample Assessment Questions
• Field Trip Exploration 1
• Arboretum Letter for Chaperones

Beyond Predictions

• Data Table
• Assessment

Formative Assessment Probes

• Floating Logs

Science Shorts

• Transmitting Sound Activity
• Activity Questions and Rubric

September 2010

Citzen Scientists

• Ecology Lesson
• Measuring Tree DBH
• Plot Studies
• Measuring Snow Depth
• Data Collection Assessment Rubric

Formative Assessment Probes

• Doing Science
• Introduction, Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Volume 1

Sound Science

• Sound Stations

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Grades 3–6 Handout
• Grades K–2 Handout

Experiences, Patterns, and Explanations

• EPE Tables

My Summer Vacation

• Oil Spill Activity and Articles

Supporting Ideas with Evidence

• Figure 2.1

Summer 2010

Summer Reading Research

• Van Hook Article
• Hamos Article
• Yager Article
• Shanahan Article
• Levy Article
• Glen Article

Action Research

• Lesson Plan

Collaborative Distance Learning

• Protocol

Science Shorts

• Worksheet

April/May 2010

Blogging About the Weather

• Air Pressure Experiences for Students
• Introduction to the Weather Forecasting Task
• Script for Creating a Weather Forecast
• Unit Timeline
• Guidelines for Comments and Scoring Rubric

Methods & Strategies

• Probing Classroom Temperature Activity
• Climate Change Links

DIY Versus Professional

• Weather Station Directions
• Sample Weather Data Table

Science Shorts

• Preassessment
• Seasons Narrative
• Sundial and Astrolabe Instructions
• Summary of Embedded Assessments

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Cloud Watchers
• My Weather Forecast

March 2010

SciGirls Brainstem Game

• Game Overview and Preparation
• Student Instructions
• Cards

Engineering for All

• Teaching Strategies

Insect Keepers

• Resources

Science Shorts

• Resources
• Checklist
• Directions for Rock Model Baking

Gravity Racers

• Student Work
• Reading List
• Data Recording Sheet
• Investigating Motion Design Challenge Worksheet
• Investigation Rubric
• Oral Communications Rubric
• How Does It Move? Worksheet

Elementary Design Challenges

• Rubric

First-Grade Engineers

• Guiding Questions to Observe the Houses
• Guiding Questions to Learn About Houses Around the World
• Rubric
• Materials Price List

Calendar

• Internet Resources

Trash Pie: Is Your School Serving?

• Trash Pie My Oh My Handout

February 2010

Methods and Strategies

• NECAP Summary Information
• Science Inquiry Learning Profile Form

From Mystery Seed to Mangrove Island

• Extension Lesson

Science Shorts

• Data Chart
• Rubric

January 2010

Clues to the Past

• DDT Pesticide Label
• Rubric

How to Make a Plant Field Guide

• Plant Field Guide Procedure
• How to Press Plant Clippings

Methods and Strategies

• Invention Learning Stations and Resources

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Moth Pattern and Data Table

Nature Watch

• Extension Projects

December 2009

Hunting for Energy

• Blank Worksheet
• Completed Worksheet
• Energy Transfer Map

More Than Meets the Eye

• Blank Laboratory Worksheet

Science Shorts

• Student Snowflake Creations
• Snowflake Diagram with Lines of Symmetry
• More Student Snowflake Creations
• Figure 1 (from print version)
• Figure 2 (from print version)
• Figure 3 (from print version)

Seeing the Light

• Student Handout
• Teacher Answer Key

Shoe Box Circuits

• Circuit Component Cutouts
• Project Worksheet

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Anticipation Guide
• Electricity At Home Page Grades 3–6
• Electricity At Home Page Grades K–2

The Magic Mirror

• Supporting Worksheets
• Teacher Guide

November 2009

Science Shorts

• NSTA Connection

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Book List

The Early Years

• Water Is an Interesting Material

October 2009

CSI for Trees

• Tree Ring Diagram
• Ash Tree
• Bladen Ash Scan
• County Clerk Office Worksheet
• CSI PowerPoint Presentation

Early Years

• Favorite Smells Chart

Wind Solvers

• Data Table
• Wind Vane Directions

Astronomies of Scale

• Planet Scramble Data Sheet
• Information Taken from DSMII Solar System Teacher’s Guide

Deer Tracks in the City

• Books to Use in the Unit
• Sequence Guide

Forces of Flight

• Forces of Flight Diagram
• Flight Data Sheet

Literacy in the Learning Cycle

• Additional Books

Today’s Authors, Tomorrow’s Scientists

• Book List

September 2009

What Grows There?

• Recording Sheet
• Plant Traits
• Plant Traits (alternate)

The Gift of the Tree

• Rubric
• Vocabulary
• Worksheet

Thirsty Plants in Arid Places

• Websites

Forest or Field?

• Directions

Methods & Strategies, Role-Play in the Science Classroom

• Game Cards
• Characteristics

Summer 2009

Breezy Power: From Wind to Energy

• Internet Resources
• Breezy Power Information Packet Page 1
• Breezy Power Information Packet: Completed Worksheet Page 1
• Design Packet
• Rubric

Linking Science and Writing with Two Bad Ants

• Ant Investigation Worksheet
• Worksheet in Spanish

YouTube in the Science Classroom

• Selected Resources from a Third-Grade, YouTube-Enhanced Weather Unit

April 2009

Explaining Glaciers

• Glacial Hitchhikers Worksheet
• Groovy Glaciers Worksheet 1
• Groovy Glaciers Worksheet 2

Volcanoes on the Beach

• What Happened to Our Volcano?

Artistic Oceanographer

• Day 4: Phytoplankton in Your Home

Inspiring Future Scientists

• Inspiring Future Scientists

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Day and Night Anticipation Guide
• Make a Picture Book
• Somewhere in the World Student Page

February 2009

Plants on the Move

• Blank Seed Experiment Worksheet

Leaves: Nature’s Solar Collectors

• Isabelle Lesson Extensions

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Seeds Chart Key

January 2009

Just Like Real Scientists

• Jane Goodall Play
• Profile of Ian Gilby

An Official Research Project

• Internet Resources for the Sea Life Unit
• Virtual Fishing Trip

December 2008

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Water Droplet Cutout
• Water Exploration Stations

November 2008

Connections Charts and Book Talk Groups

• Narrative Informational Literature

The POETRY of Science

• P.O.E.T.R.Y. Version B
• P.O.E.T.R.Y. Version C

October 2008

Worms

• Earthworm Facts

Investigating with Darwin

• Extra Activity
• Figure 1
• Figure 2

Better Boat Challenge

• Sailboat Extension

September 2008

Bringing Moon Phases Down to Earth

• Lunar Observation Chart

Teaching Through Trade Books: Moon Phases and Models

• Moon Journal
• Moon Survey

July 2008

Everybody Loves PRISM!

• Parent Article

Sun Savvy Students

• Get Sunwise

April 2008

Bring the Zoo to You!

• Data Collection Chart
• Grading Rubric for Animal Model
• Grading Rubric for Data Collection Chart
• Zoo Timeline

Action Research Meets Engineering Design:

• Roller Coaster Activity Description and Rubric

In Praise of Performance-Based Assessments

• Performance-Based Assessment

March 2008

Methods and Strategies: Students as Authors:

• Overview of the ISLE Matter Unit

February 2008

A Lemon of a Lesson:

• Activity Sheet

January 2008

Mighty Molecule Models:

• Blank Worksheet

Teaching Through Trade Books: A Closer Look:

• Coin Observation

December 2007

A Revamped Science Expo:

• Board Template
• Project Guidelines
• Rubric

A Kinder-Science Fair:

• Handout

November 2007

Teaching Through Tradebooks:

• Journal Introduction
• Journal Entry 1
• Journal Entry 2
• Journal Entry 3
• Journal Entry 4
• Journal Entry 5
• Notebook Template

Science Books Props:

• Weather Content Pretest
• Science Attitudes Test

Reinvigorating Science Journals:

• Rubric
• Book List

Everyday Science Calendar:

• Nova: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
• How to Star Watch
• Garrett Morgan 1
• Garrett Morgan 2

October 2007

Teaching Through Tradebooks:

• Favorite Zoo Animals Worksheet

The Radish Party:

• Soil Ecology Lessons

Everyday Science Calendar:

• Edison 1
• Edison 2
• Columbus 1
• Columbus 2
• Compass
• Microscopes

September 2007

The Tree of Animal Life:

• Tree of Life

Goodbye Critter Jitters:

• Habitat Plan Worksheet

Exploring Animals, Glossopedia Style:

• Glossopedia Sample Lesson Plan
• Animal Report Planner
• Power Point Planner

Everyday Science Calendar:

• NOAA Photo Library
• Pandas 1
• Pandas 2
• Insects 1
• Insects 2
• Birds

July/August 2007

Teaching Through Tradebooks:

• Water Article
• Water Activity

Everyday Science Calendar (July):

• Samuel P. Massie
• Florence Bascom
• Hydroelectric Power
• Water Conservation

Everday Science Calendar (August):

• Helen Hogg
• National Atlas Website

April/May 2007

Teaching Through Trade Books:

• Owl Student Page

Environmental Education Saves the Day:

• Sample PLT activity: The Forest of S.T. Shrew

Everyday Science Calendar (April):

• Plant-inspired inventions
• The Story of Hook and Loop
• Women in Chemistry: Mary Daly

Everyday Science Calendar (May):

• Daylight Saving Time: California Energy Commission
• Daylight Saving Time: WebExhibits.org
• Roosevelt and Conservation: WhiteHouseHistory.org
• Roosevelt and Conservation: Library of Congress

March 2007

Coffee Can Speakers:

• Materials List

Secret Message Science Goggles:

• Goggle Template

Everyday Science Calendar

February 2007

Teaching Science Through Trade Books: Science Measures Up:

• Measuring Pets Worksheet

January 2006

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Jumping Bean Vendors

October 2005

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Worksheet

April/May 2005

• Additional Trade Books for Use in a Seed Unit

November/December 2004

Making Thinking Visible: A Method to Encourage Science Writing in Upper Elementary Grades

• Graphic Organizer and Rubric

May 2003

Teaching Through Trade Books

• Building a Classroom Barometer
• Building a Wind Vane