Helaine Becker

Collaborative Teaching in the Middle Grades (eBook, PDF)

Inquiry Science

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book allows you to team teach with a science specialist to drive home key library and media curriculum goals. Eight detailed chapters provide background and complete lesson plans that cover both library and general science skills and benchmarks. Included are reproducible student worksheets, tools for assessment, and a suggested resource list. Grades 6-8 Collaborative Teaching in the Middle Grades: Inquiry Science will enable school librarians to pursue the goal of teaching to standards. It offers a comprehensive, detailed guide to collaboration, the process and tips for success, and innovative unit lessons for grades 6-8 that support the AASL's nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning, while designing lessons integrated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Benchmarks for Science Literacy. It provides background material, complete lesson overview, instructional tasks and responsibilities, tools for assessment, and suggested resources in a convenient all-in-one format. Reproducible student worksheets, lesson guides, and assessments are included. Research skills such as selecting and retrieving data, evaluating data, synthesizing data, creating new data, and communicating of information are all be reinforced during each lesson.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313068904
• Artikelnr.: 68528131

Autorenporträt

HELAINE BECKER is an experienced educational writer currently living in Toronto, specializing in math, science, and language arts, with over 90 published works. She has written science materials for American Educational Products, spelling supplementals for Rigby, middle school level biographies for school library publisher Blackbirch Press, and math and language materials for Learning Resources.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Alike or Different? Classification of Organisms Show Dog or
Show Dud? A Look at Genetic Inheritance Sewers and Quarantines--Public
Health at Work Do Diets Work? Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism What
Causes Milk to Spoil? Microorganisms at Work The Disappearing Rainforest:
The Effects of Human Action on the Environment Visiting Pompeii and San
Francisco--The Effects of Geologic Processes on Human Populations Looking
at Light--An Investigation into the Composition of Sunlight and Human
Vision