More picture-perfect science lessons : using children's books to guide inquiry, K-4 /

Ansberry, Karen Rohrich, 1966-

More picture-perfect science lessons : using children's books to guide inquiry, K-4 / by Karen Ansberry, Emily Morgan. - xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

"In each chapter of this book, we have clearly identified connections between the lesson and A framework for K-12 Science Educational (NCR 2012)."--Page 35.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why read picture books in science class? -- Reading aloud -- Teaching science through inquiry -- BSCS 5E instructional model -- Connecting to standards -- Bubbles -- Bubble, bubble and pop! a book about bubbles -- How big is a foot? -- How big is a foot? and how tall, how short, how faraway -- Hear your heart -- Hear your heart and The busy body book : a kid's guide to fitness -- Loco beans -- Lucas and his loco beans : a bilingual tale of the Mexican jumping bean -- Wiggling worms -- Diary of a worm and Wiggling worms at work -- Over in the ocean -- Over in the ocean : in a coral reef and Coral reef animals -- Be a friend to trees -- Our tree named Steve and Be a friend to trees -- That magnetic dog -- That magnetic dog and Magnetic and nonmagnetic -- Roller coasters -- Roller coaster and I fall down -- Mirror, mirror -- What did they see? and I see myself -- If you find a rock -- If you find a rock and Rocks : hard, soft, smooth, and rough -- Sunshine on my shoulders -- Sunshine on my shoulders -- Stargazers -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer and Spots of light : a book about stars -- Imaginative inventions -- Imaginative inventions and Leo Cockroach, toy tester -- A sense of wonder -- John Muir, America's naturalist, Rachel Carson : preserving a sense of wonder, and The important book.

This volume offers 15 lessons that combine picture books and inquiry to develop students interest in science and reading. The lessons cover physical science, life science, and Earth and space science. They include reproducible student pages and assessments. They feature embedded reading-comprehension strategies. And they make students yearn to learn with fiction and nonfiction books.

9781933531120 1933531126

2007007200


Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)
Picture books for children--Environmental aspects.

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