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Unit Plans: The Sun and Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Energy & Work, Mathematics, Earth & Space Science, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: GraduateSubjects: Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based LearningBooks 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0Unit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Current Science, Mathematics, Earth & Space Science 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0Essential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Current Science, Energy & Work, 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0Unit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Light, Sound & Other Waves, Earth & Space Science, 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Learning Theories, Instructional Strategies, 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: 0Lapbooks: Getting Creative with Science in the School Library
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Current Science, Energy & Work, Education, Child Development & Family Services 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: 0Essential Principle 1: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Curriculum Design, Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Earth & Space ScienceThis 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: 0Professional Bookshelf: Print Publications
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Learning Theories, Science, Professional Development 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: 0Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Curriculum Design, Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesThe 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: 0Melting Icebergs
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space ScienceThis formative assessment item uncovers student ideas and misconceptions about melting icebergs. It determines if students belie...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Glaciers and Rocks
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth & Space ScienceThis formative assessment item uncovers students' ideas about glacial erosion and how glaciers transport rocks and other sedimen...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Where Do Penguins Live?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Classification, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis formative assessment item uncovers students' prior knowledge about the distribution of penguin species throughout the world...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0What to Wear?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science and 2 additional..This formative assessment item uncovers student understanding of weather and seasons. It uncovers student ideas about difference...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Weather at the North and South Poles
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science and 3 additional..This formative assessment item is used to uncover student ideas about weather at the North and South Poles. It will help to dete...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Where are the Volcanoes?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth & Space ScienceThis formative assessment item discusses common misconceptions about volcano location around the world. Resources include backgr...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Is It a Fossil?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Professional Development, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Earth & Space ScienceThis formative assessment item is used to uncover students' ideas about fossils before a lesson has begun. Students will determi...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Is It a Mammal?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Structure and Function in Living Things, Classification, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis formative assessment item uncovers misconception and student ideas about classifications of mammals. It will uncover how st...Contributor: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Number Cruncher
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Addition & Subtraction, Algebra & Functions, Number Sense, Professional Development and 5 additional..In this activity, students enter inputs into a function machine. Then, by examining the outputs, they must determine what functi...Contributor: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)Views: 0Favorites: 0Angles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Curriculum Design, Measurement & Geometry, Professional Development, Education, Child Development & Family Services, MathematicsIn this activity, students practice comparing angles when a transversal intersects two parallel lines. This activity allows stud...Contributor: The NSDL Math Common Core CollectionViews: 0Favorites: 0
