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      • Thumb image for Visualizing Informational TextResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Visualizing Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies and 2 additional..
        Visualizing is a reading comprehension strategy that can be applied to science-themed texts, according to this article from Beyo...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Unit Plans: The Sun and Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Energy & Work, Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development 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)
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        Unit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development, Physics, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) and 9 additional..
        Four unit plans provide opportunities for in-depth explorations of important foundational climate concepts -- weather, water as ...
        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, Life Sciences, Instructional Strategies, Earth's Resources 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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        Unit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Life Sciences 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)
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        Understanding Earth's Climate: Virtual Bookshelf

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 7 additional..
        This list of children's books recommends nonfiction titles that supplement basic information found in lessons and activities of ...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        The Sun: Earth's Primary Energy Source

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Energy & Work, Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development, Physics and 9 additional..
        This article provides elementary school teachers with background knowledge about science concepts needed to understand the first...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        The Sun and Earth's Climate: Virtual Bookshelf

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..
        This book list contains children's books that have been screened for accuracy in depicting scientific concepts. Each book's cont...
        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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        The Biosphere/Climate Connection

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Energy & Work, Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Geology & the Dynamic Earth 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)
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        Teaching about Adaptations and Environments with ARKive

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Instructional Strategies, Technology
        This article introduces ARKive, a digital library of photographs and videos of the world's wildlife. The library gives special p...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Take Action: Plant a Tree

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Personal and Community Health, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning
        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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        Setting the Stage for Understanding the Climate System's Complex Interactions

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Energy & Work, Professional Development, Physics and 11 additional..
        The author of this article notes that K-5 students are not expected to study the complex interactions between components of the ...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Questions, Questions: Taking Energy Inquiry Further in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Energy & Work, Heat & Thermodynamics, Professional Development 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)
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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Learning Theories, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies
        Books about teaching reading and science skills along with content to K-Grade 5 children are identified in this continuing featu...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies
        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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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Nature & Method of Science, Science 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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        Professional Bookshelf

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

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Energy & Work, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Physics 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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        Making Predictions: A Strategy for Reading and Science Learning

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Instructional Strategies
        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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