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      • Thumb image for Professional Bookshelf: Print PublicationsResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        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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        Lessons about Making Predictions with Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies
        Making predictions is a skill readers need for comprehending fiction and nonfiction. Three lessons are identified here to give y...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Visualizing Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies, Mathematics, Professional Development 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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        Lessons about Visualizing with Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Current Science 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)
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        Lessons About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Structure and Function in Living Things and 10 additional..
        This article highlights lessons that help K-grade 5 students understand that animals and plants can only survive in certain envi...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        The Biosphere/Climate Connection

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) 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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        Lessons about the Sun and Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) 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)
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        Create Interactive Activities with Content Clips

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development
        This 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)
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        Essential Principle 3: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Curriculum Design, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies, Life Sciences
        In 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)
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        Unit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Ecology & Ecosystems, Our Solar System 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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        Setting the Stage for Understanding the Climate System's Complex Interactions

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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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        Essential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), 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)
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        All About Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Geology & the Dynamic Earth 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)
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        Teaching about Adaptations and Environments with ARKive

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Instructional Strategies, Life Sciences
        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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        Lessons about Inferring

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies
        Different 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)
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        Questions, Questions: Taking Energy Inquiry Further in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases) 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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        Unit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Structure and Function in Living Things, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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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        The Sun: Earth's Primary Energy Source

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Current Science 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: Earth & Space Science, Our Solar System, Earth's Resources, Heat & Thermodynamics 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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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

        Grades: Graduate
        Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Learning Theories, 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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