Teachers raved when NSTA Press published
Picture-Perfect Science Lessons .* They loved its lively mix of kid-magnet books, Standards-based science content and ready-to-teach lessons. So what could be more perfect?
More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons! This volume offers 15 new lessons that combine picture books and inquiry to develop students’ interest in science and reading.
The sequel follows the winning formula that made the first book an NSTA best seller. The lessons, following the 5E instructional model developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) cover a variety of science content—physical science, life science, and Earth and Space Science. They include reproducible student pages and assessments. They feature embedded reading-comprehension strategies. And they make students yearn to learn from such engaging fiction and nonfiction books as
Diary of a Worm, Sunshine On My Shoulders, How Big is a Foot? and
Leo Cockroach, Toy Tester.
The authors know how important it is for time-starved teachers to integrate science and reading in a natural way and how students with reading troubles can use an extra nudge to get engaged in science texts.
More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons is the perfect supplement to your science program—and the perfect way to help students develop a love of reading and learning about science.
*Teachers weren’t the only ones raving!
Picture-Perfect won the Distinguished Achievement Award for Teacher Resource Books from the Association of Educational Publishers.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Picture-Perfect Science Program
Chapter 1
Why Read Picture Books in Science Class?
Chapter 2
Reading Aloud
Chapter 3
Teaching Science Through Inquiry
Chapter 4
BSCS 5E Instructional Model
Chapter 5
National Science Education Standards
Chapter 6
Bubbles
Bubble, Bubble and Pop! A Book About Bubbles
Chapter 7
How Big Is a Foot?
How Big Is a Foot? and How Tall, How Short, How Faraway
Chapter 8
Hear Your Heart
Hear Your Heart and The Busy Body Book: A Kid’s Guide to Fitness
Chapter 9
Loco Beans
Lucas and His Loco Beans: A Bilingual Tale of the Mexican Jumping Bean
Chapter 10
Wiggling Worms
Diary of a Worm and Wiggling Worms at Work
Chapter 11
Over in the Ocean
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef and Coral Reef Animals
Chapter 12
Be a Friend to Trees
Our Tree Named Steve and Be a Friend to Trees
Chapter 13
That Magnetic Dog
That Magnetic Dog and Magnetic and Nonmagnetic
Chapter 14
Roller Coasters
Roller Coaster and I Fall Down
Chapter 15
Mirror, Mirror
What Did They See? and I See Myself
Chapter 16
If You Find a Rock
If You Find a Rock and Rocks: Hard, Soft, Smooth, and Rough
Chapter 17
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Sunshine on My Shoulders
Chapter 18
Stargazers
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer and Spots of Light: A Book About Stars
Chapter 19
Imaginative Inventions
Imaginative Inventions and Leo Cockroach, Toy Tester
Chapter 20
A Sense of Wonder
John Muir: America’s Naturalist, Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder, and The Important Book
Glossary
Index