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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBuckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Current Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis 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 / HyperLinkUnit Plans: The Sun and Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Energy & Work, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Ecology & Ecosystems, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 12 additional..In this article, teachers find two unit plans (grades K-2 and 3-5) that use resources featured in the science and literacy artic...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: Ecology & Ecosystems, Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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 / HyperLinkLapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Energy & Work, Ecology & Ecosystems, Our Solar System, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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 Earth's Past Climates
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTake Action: Plant a Tree
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Personal and Community Health, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based LearningThis 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 / HyperLinkThe Biosphere/Climate Connection
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Energy & Work, Ecology & Ecosystems, Physics and 24 additional..This article continues an examination of each of the seven essential principles of the climate sciences on which the online maga...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things and 13 additional..Unit plans at two levels, K-grade 2 and grades 3-5 develop understanding of the issue theme, We Depend on Earth's Climate, by fo...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 / HyperLinkAsking Questions, All the Time
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Mathematics 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 / HyperLinkProfessional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies, Nature & Method of Science, Professional Development 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 / HyperLinkCan You Read a Tree?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based LearningIn 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 / HyperLinkInteractive Activities for Understanding Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Energy & Work, Ecology & Ecosystems, Our Solar System, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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 / HyperLinkA Science Fair Makeover in Your School Library!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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 / HyperLinkLessons about Visualizing with Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Current Science, Earth's Resources and 7 additional..This article identifies online lesson plans that can be used to introduce visualizing, a comprehension skill important to both s...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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space ScienceThis 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 / HyperLinkLessons about the Sun and Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Our Solar System, Physics, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 14 additional..Concepts underlying the first of the Essential Principles of the Climate Sciences are aligned with topics typically taught in th...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: Energy & Work, Ecology & Ecosystems, Our Solar System, Physics 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 / HyperLinkQuestions, Questions: Taking Energy Inquiry Further in the School Library
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Energy & Work, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Ecology & Ecosystems, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning and 11 additional..This article from Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle provides ideas on how school librarians can work with elementary teachers t...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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, 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