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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Life Sciences, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about Visualizing with Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, History-Social 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVisualizing Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about Making Predictions with Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentMaking 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProfessional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Learning Theories, Professional DevelopmentHighlighted 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 / HyperLinkBuckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Science, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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 / HyperLinkLapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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 / HyperLinkInteractive Activities for Understanding Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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 / HyperLinkPlants Need the Perfect Place
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking Predictions: A Strategy for Reading and Science Learning
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional DevelopmentThis 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEssential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Curriculum Design, 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 / HyperLinkProfessional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Learning Theories, 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Seasons and the Sun
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentAn 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProfessional Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Learning Theories, Professional DevelopmentExemplary professional development publications in the areas of general instruction, science education, and literacy instruction...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: Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning 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 / HyperLinkUnit Plans: Earth's Climate Changes
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAsking Questions, All the Time
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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 / 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 / HyperLinkCorrelation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Curriculum Design, 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 / HyperLinkTake Action: Plant a Tree
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Personal and Community Health, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional DevelopmentThis 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