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First a few thoughts:
- Lessons depend on grade level and state or district standards;
- Why do you find science daunting-or fun and educational?
- Find out what your students are interested in and let their enthusiasm guide some of their learning with you providing structure.
Resources for engaging, authentic, and educational learning opportunities:
- Here at the Learning Center, under Explore Resources-there are more free than not;
- NSTA books: Eureka! & Eureka Again! the 1st one is grade band 3-5, 2nd one is K-2; three volumes of 'The Power of 1. Questioning, 2. Investigations, & 3. Assessing.
- NSTA has free webinars covering all sorts of resources as well as Twitter chats for more learning opportunities;
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Next Generation Science Standards webpage has teaching resources as well-free;
- Utah Department of Education has resources for their teachers if you are going to teach there; Colorado Department of Education has model lessons available for free;I don't know what Iowa may have;
- Using literature-as in your reading lessons, you can use science tradebooks to assist students in their reading and science leasons; using a science notebooks can help with reading, writing, communicating as well. A science noteboook is not the same as a journal and here are a few resources for science notebooks and tradebooks.
- As a novice teacher, you can joni NSTA for a reduced membership fee which includes a journal for your grade level.
I know I haven't given you lessons but you can borrow anything from my learning source files; they are all public but most are secondary. There are some presentations with activities for elementary.
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