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      • Thumb image for Lessons About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their EnvironmentsResource Type: Website / HyperLink

        Lessons About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere 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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        Lessons about Visualizing with Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Mathematics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere 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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        Visualizing Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, 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 Making Predictions with Informational Text

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

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Learning Theories, Professional Development
        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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        Buckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Mathematics, Nature & Method of 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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        Lapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Life Sciences, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Agriculture & Natural Resources 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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        Interactive Activities for Understanding Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Education, Child Development & Family Services, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Agriculture & Natural Resources 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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        Plants Need the Perfect Place

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Agriculture & Natural Resources, 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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        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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        Essential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Curriculum Design
        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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        Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications

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

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Learning Theories, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, 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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        Activities for Studying Tree Rings Online

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Current Science, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, 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)
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        Unit Plans: Earth's Climate Changes

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Personal and Community Health, Life Sciences, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Agriculture & Natural 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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        Asking Questions, All the Time

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, History-Social Science 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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        Lessons about Asking, Answering Questions

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development
        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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        Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional Development, Curriculum Design
        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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        Take Action: Plant a Tree

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Personal and Community Health
        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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