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      • Thumb image for Can You Read a Tree?Resource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Can You Read a Tree?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning
        In 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)
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        Lessons about Earth's Past Climates

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science 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)
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        Earth's Changing Climate: Natural Variation and Human Impact

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science
        This 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)
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        Earth's Climate Changes: Virtual Bookshelf

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere 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)
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        Take Action: Plant a Tree

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Personal and Community Health, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development
        This 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)
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        Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services
        The 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)
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        Lessons about Asking, Answering Questions

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies
        Using 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)
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        Asking Questions, All the Time

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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)
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        Unit Plans: Earth's Climate Changes

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Instructional Strategies 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)
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        A Science Fair Makeover in Your School Library!

        Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, 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)
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        Activities for Studying Tree Rings Online

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science 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)
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        Professional Bookshelf

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Learning Theories, Professional Development
        Exemplary professional development publications in the areas of general instruction, science education, and literacy instruction...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        The Seasons and the Sun

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science
        An 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)
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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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)
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        Essential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services
        This 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)
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        Making Predictions: A Strategy for Reading and Science Learning

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development
        This 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)
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        Plants Need the Perfect Place

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science 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)
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        Interactive Activities for Understanding Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Our Solar System, Heat & Thermodynamics, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Instructional Strategies 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)
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        Lapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Our Solar System, Heat & Thermodynamics, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Instructional Strategies 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)
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        Buckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Science 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)
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