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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCan You Read a Tree?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional DevelopmentIn this nonfiction story, young readers and listeners learn how scientists use cross sections from trees to reconstruct past cli...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about Earth's Past Climates
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Current Science, Earth's Resources, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 2 additional..Three types of climate proxies -- tree rings, fossils, and ice cores -- are the subjects of lessons that will help K-5 students ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEarth's Changing Climate: Natural Variation and Human Impact
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentThis article looks at the content knowledge teachers will need to prepare young students for later introduction of the fourth es...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEarth's Climate Changes: Virtual Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Personal and Community Health, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development and 10 additional..This list of carefully selected books for grades K-5 highlights nonfiction about climate proxies, those preserved physical chara...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTake Action: Plant a Tree
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Personal and Community HealthThis regular column, called Take Action, in the magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle suggests actions K-5 teachers can ta...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCorrelation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThe concepts that underlie the fourth essential principle of climate literacy ("Climate varies over space and time through both ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about Asking, Answering Questions
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentUsing the web-based lessons highlighted in this article, students learn how to pose questions before, during, and after reading ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAsking Questions, All the Time
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, History-Social Science and 3 additional..The ability to ask and answer questions while reading is essential to comprehension. This article discusses instructional strate...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans: Earth's Climate Changes
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Personal and Community Health, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere and 8 additional..Unit plans for Grades K-2 and 3-5 are a regular feature of the magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The plans draw on ar...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Science Fair Makeover in Your School Library!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Learning Theories, Curriculum Design, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies and 2 additional..School librarian Marcia Mardis describes what the library can offer to teachers and students who want to produce a focused, enga...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkActivities for Studying Tree Rings Online
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Current Science, Earth's Resources, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 2 additional..Selected resources provide three web-based activities to complement science lessons in an issue of Beyond Weather and the Water ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProfessional Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Learning TheoriesExemplary professional development publications in the areas of general instruction, science education, and literacy instruction...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Seasons and the Sun
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentAn original informational story about Sun's role in heating Earth's air, land, and water and Sun's connection to the seasons and...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProfessional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Nature & Method of Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Learning Theories, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 5 additional..Highlighted in this regular magazine feature are exemplary professional development publications that stress research-based stra...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEssential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThis article provide a list of learning objectives and excerpts from the K-8 content standards of the National Science Education...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking Predictions: A Strategy for Reading and Science Learning
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThis article discusses the reading instruction strategy of predicting and shows how it applies to science learning in the elemen...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPlants Need the Perfect Place
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Energy & Work, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere and 6 additional..This original story about plants' dependence on the climate illustrates the theme of the issue of the online, free magazine Beyo...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInteractive Activities for Understanding Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Energy & Work, Mathematics, Ecology & Ecosystems and 15 additional..This article provides links to online resources that can be used with interactive whiteboards and computers. Weather, climate, a...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Energy & Work, History-Social Science and 15 additional..In this article, the author shows how school librarians and elementary teachers can help students create science lapbooks. The a...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBuckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Nature & Method of Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Heat & Thermodynamics, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 12 additional..A new instructional model, called Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI), is introduced to elementary teachers in this article. The autho...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0