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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Science Fair Makeover in Your School Library!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Curriculum Design, Learning Theories 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: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development 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 / HyperLinkAll About Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Mathematics, Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Energy & Work and 13 additional..In this informational text, elementary school readers learn about the difference between weather and climate and about component...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, History-Social Science, Mathematics, Professional Development 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 / HyperLinkBuckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: History-Social Science, Mathematics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Earth & Space 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
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 / HyperLinkClimate: A Complex Interaction
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Energy & Work, Earth's Resources and 9 additional..This article continues an examination of each of the seven essential principles of climate literacy on which the online magazine...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: Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThe 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 / HyperLinkCreate Interactive Activities with Content Clips
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis article introduces a free online collection of images, video clips, and animations that teachers can use in creating resour...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: Professional Development, Earth & Space ScienceThis 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: Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Earth's Resources 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 / HyperLinkEssential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Curriculum Design, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional DevelopmentThis 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 / HyperLinkEssential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Chemistry, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 18 additional..This article aligns the concepts of Essential Principle 2 of the Climate Sciences to the K-5 content standards of the National S...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEssential Principle 3: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Curriculum Design, Life Sciences, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentIn this article, the author identifies science content standards for grades K-5 from the national standards that are aligned wit...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInferring: Reading Between the Lines Isn't Just for Reading Class
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThe reading strategy known as inferring is also one of the six basic process skills in science. How to apply the strategy in tea...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: Mathematics, Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Energy & Work 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: History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Energy & Work 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 / 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 / HyperLinkLessons about Earth's Past Climates
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development 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 / HyperLinkLessons about Inferring
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentDifferent approaches to teaching the reading comprehension strategy of inferring in K-5 classrooms are identified in this articl...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0