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Active Assessment for Active Science: A Guide for Elementary School Teachers
Although there are several new books about alternate, authentic, or performance-based assessment, few focus on science assessment and provide practical information on developing, interpreting, and scoring these new alternatives to traditional tests. In...
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Integrating the Arts in Science: 30 Strategies to Create Dynamic Lessons, 2nd Edition..
Use the arts to get students excited about science! This teacher-friendly resource provides practical strategies to help teachers integrate creative movement, drama, music, poetry, storytelling, and visual arts in science instruction.
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Mathematics and Science for a Change: How to Design, Implement, and Sustain High-Quality Professional Development
You’ve decided it’s time for something different. A new way to teach mathematics and science that supports higher achievement in all students. And that means rethinking how you provide teacher professional development. Sounds like a tough...
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New Science Literacy : Using Language Skills to Help Students Learn Science
Whether you're a teacher new to science or a veteran teacher of science, here's a powerful new tool for teaching the subject through language literacy. This book explains how instructional synergy and power result from combining the two subjects. And it...
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Questions, Claims, and Evidence: The Important Place of Argument in Children's Science Writing
Questions, Claims, and Evidence presents a new approach to science teaching that engages students fully by linking literacy and inquiry. With it you’ll replace the lab reports of traditional science teaching with the writing of scientists searching...
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Science Notebooks, Second Edition
Writing About Inquiry The bestselling first edition of Science Notebooks inspired thousands of teachers to use science notebooks as a powerful way to help students reveal and develop their thinking about scientific concepts, engage in the work of...
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Science Workshop : Reading, Writing, and Thinking Like a Scientist
What does a Science Workshop look like in a real classroom? How do Science Workshop teachers plan? Where does literacy instruction come into play? How do you track children's learning? This second edition, chock-full of new information and ideas, leaves...
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Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Children's Literature
Science is everywhere, in everything we do, see, and read. Books—all books—offer possibilities for talk about science in the illustrations and text once you know how to look for them. Children’s literature is a natural avenue...