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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about Making Predictions with Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesMaking 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 / HyperLinkVisualizing Informational Text
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Experimentation and the Scientific Method, Mathematics 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 / HyperLinkThe Biosphere/Climate Connection
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Our Solar System, Current Science, Experimentation and the Scientific Method 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about the Sun and Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System, Current Science 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreate Interactive Activities with Content Clips
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEssential Principle 3: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Curriculum Design, Life Sciences, Instructional Strategies, Education, Child Development & Family ServicesIn 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans That Teach Foundational Climate Concepts
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Our Solar System, Instructional Strategies 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSetting the Stage for Understanding the Climate System's Complex Interactions
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEssential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching about Adaptations and Environments with ARKive
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Instructional Strategies, Technology, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisThis 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLessons about Inferring
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesDifferent 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkQuestions, Questions: Taking Energy Inquiry Further in the School Library
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans About Organisms, Their Adaptations, and Their Environments
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Evolution and Adaptation, Ecology & Ecosystems, Instructional Strategies 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Sun and Earth's Climate: Virtual Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Our Solar System, 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)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnderstanding Earth's Climate: Virtual Bookshelf
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Ecology & Ecosystems, Current Science and 7 additional..This list of children's books recommends nonfiction titles that supplement basic information found in lessons and activities of ...Contributor: Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnit Plans: The Sun and Earth's Climate
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Instructional Strategies, Our Solar System 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: 0