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What child doesn't want to know how things work? Introduce a young
reader in your life to how nature works and inspires innovation to
help solve some of our toughest engineering challenges. This
kid-friendly, beautiful introduction to biomimicry is half playful
rhymes and half nonfiction, perfect for ages 5 and up. Nature does
it best ... and did it first! Explore the ways we have looked to
nature for brilliant new designs and innovations to solve our own
conundrums. Each example in nature is paired with a fun, rhyming
description, an example of how it has been used by us, and a
question to the reader-"what other problems can be solved?" Learn
fascinating examples of biomimicry, like:How burrs inspired
VelcroHow grooved gecko feet inspired adhesiveHow bumpy whale
flippers inspired windmill blades and surfboardsAnd more!Back
matter includes:A glossary for words like echolocation and
adhesiveA STEM Challenge activity perfect for your home or
classroom
For teachers eager to integrate STEM into their school day,
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons is an exciting development. This
book's 15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world. They
embed reading-comprehension strategies that integrate the STEM
subjects and English language arts through high-quality picture
books. You'll help your 3-5 students engage in STEM activities
while learning to read and reading to learn. This volume of
Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons for the upper-elementary grades uses a
remarkable variety of books to teach STEM concepts and reading
comprehension strategies. For example, you can pique students'
interest with The Inventor's Secret; An Ambush of Tigers; and Trash
to Treasure: A Kid's Upcycling Guide to Trash. Then, through the
accompanying lessons, you can teach ways to plan and carry out
investigations; analyze and interpret data; and construct
explanations and design solutions. Along the way, your students
will invent toy cars, learn how scientists use technology to track
individual animals within larger groups, figure out how to reduce
plastic pollution, and tackle other real-world projects. Engaging
fiction and nonfiction books plus 15 hands-on lessons add up to
perfect ways to learn about the interdependence of the STEM areas.
Along with these new lessons come the easy-to-use features that
have made Picture-Perfect a bestselling series for more than a
dozen years: Fiction and nonfiction book pairs Background reading,
materials lists, student pages, and assessments for each lesson
Connections to science standards and the Common Core State
Standards for both English language arts and mathematics.
Picture-Perfect STEM is a powerful tool for guiding instruction.
You'll love how effective this book is, and your students will love
learning about STEM.
This newly revised and expanded 2nd edition of Picture-Perfect
Science Lessons manages to surpass the original. Picture-Perfect
Science Lessons draws on diverse and engaging books. You’ll love
how effective this book is, and your students will love learning
about science.
Titles included in the set (just to name a few) are: Pop! A Book
About Bubbles; How Big Is a Foot?; How Tall How Short; Hear Your
Heart; The Busy Body Book; Lucas and His Loco Beans; Diary of a
Worm; Wiggling Worms at Work; Over in the Ocean; Coral Reef
Animals; Our Tree Named Steve;
Since the debut of the Picture-Perfect Science books and workshops
more than 10 years ago, authors Emily Morgan and Karen Ansberry
have learned one thing for certain: Elementary school teachers are
constantly clamouring for even more ways to engage children in
reading and science through picture books! To meet that demand, the
15 all-new lessons in Even More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons
bring you: Even more convenience: You can cover reading and science
content simultaneously and save time with ready-to-use student
pages and assessments. Even more confidence in your own expertise:
You get relevant science concepts and reading comprehension
strategies to keep your teaching on track. Even more ways to entice
even reading-phobic children: Each lesson makes students yearn to
learn science from such captivating fiction and nonfiction picture
books as Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar; Captain Kidd’s Crew
Experiments With Sinking and Floating; and The Boy Who Harnessed
the Wind. Plus: This latest volume even connects the lessons to A
Framework for K–12 Science Education and the English Language
Arts and Literacy Common Core State Standards. Just as teachers
like you have been hoping, Even More Picture-Perfect Science
Lessons delivers the whole package: teacher-friendly lessons,
strong standards-based science content, and a kid-magnet formula
that will get your students engrossed in science while they improve
their reading skills.
What was your favourite book as a child? In more than 10 years of
facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, My
fourth-grade science textbook. Clearly, textbooks have an important
place in the science classroom, but using trade books to supplement
a textbook can greatly enrich students experience. from Teaching
Science Through Trade Books If you like the popular Teaching
Science Through Trade Books columns in NSTA s journal Science and
Children, or if you've become enamoured of the award-winning
Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series, you ll love this new
collection. It s based on the same time-saving concept: By using
children s books to pique students interest, you can combine
science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and
effective way. In this volume, column authors Christine Royce,
Karen Ansberry, and Emily Morgan selected 50 of their favorites,
updated the lessons, and added student activity pages, making it
easier than ever to teach fundamental science concepts through
high-quality fiction and nonfiction children s books. Just as with
the original columns, each lesson highlights two trade books and
offers two targeted activities, one for K 3 and one for grades 4 6.
All activities are Standards-based and inquiry-oriented. From
Measuring Penny and How Tall, How Short, How Far Away? to I Took a
Walk and Secret Place, the featured books will help your students
put science in a whole new context. Teaching Science Through Trade
Books offers an ideal way to combine well-structured,
ready-to-teach lessons with strong curricular connections and books
your students just may remember, always.
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