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

        Lessons about Visualizing with Informational Text

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Current Science, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development 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 the Sun and Earth's Climate

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Curriculum Design, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development 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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        Lessons About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, Structure and Function in Living Things, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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 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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        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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        Lessons about Earth's Past Climates

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Current Science, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, 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)
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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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        Lapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's 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: Education, Child Development & Family Services, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's 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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        Inferring: Reading Between the Lines Isn't Just for Reading Class

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies
        The reading strategy known as inferring is also one of the six basic process skills in science. How to apply the strategy in tea...
        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: Life Sciences, Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional Strategies
        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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        Essential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Life Sciences, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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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        Essential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services
        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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        Earth's Climate Changes: Virtual Bookshelf

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Life Sciences, Personal and Community Health, Professional Development 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)
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        Earth's Changing Climate: Natural Variation and Human Impact

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science
        This 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)
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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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        Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Curriculum Design, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services
        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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        Climate: A Complex Interaction

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development, Current Science, Energy & Work and 9 additional..
        This article continues an examination of each of the seven essential principles of climate literacy on which the online magazine...
        Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)
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        Can You Read a Tree?

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning
        In 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)
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        Buckets of Fun with Argument-Driven Inquiry in Your School Library!

        Grades: TK/K to 6
        Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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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