Sun, Feb 21, 2016 10:44 PM in Getting Students to Ask Questions
It's interesting because students (I teach 4th grade) seem to have an unending supply of questions during the "teaching time" of all my lessons - not science in particular, either. I am talking about the whole "To" part of the "To-With-By" model for lessons. And I really try to keep that part quick so we can move on to the engagement part of things. So I always build expectations around them just ...
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Sun, Feb 21, 2016 10:29 PM in Are Tails Limbs??
This debate came up in science this past week (4th grade) in both of my classes and I just found out the teacher next door had it come up in her classes. Our science curriculum has some great trade books and hands on manipulative sets. There are sets of "Four-Limbed Animal Cards" that students observe to identify examples of variation and relatedness, then they look at a trade book and try to grow...
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Sun, Feb 14, 2016 8:52 PM in Science and Literacy
We have a literacy based science curriculum at our district. One thing I really like about it is that from lesson to lesson the focus changes from science content to reading to writing. For example, we read a trade book about science concepts we are covering and one day the lessons will really emphasize using text features and structure to extract and organize the actual content information. Then ...
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