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My eBook “Think Like a Scientist: Understanding Weather & Climate” is now available through NSTA Press. Learn more about this and other NSTA ebooks for the K-5 classroom here.
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Better Integrating “Keys to Literacy” Scaffolds and Strategies Across the Science Curriculum
Over the past several years our Burlington elementary educators have been inundated with changes. Besides the upending of our K-5 science and engineering curriculum classroom educators were introduced to “Keys to Literacy” a K-12 ranging program designed to boost student … Continue reading
Posted in 3-5, Curriculum, K-2, Professional Development
Tagged Keys to Literacy, writing
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Using the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Model during Investigations
This month’s science curriculum council spent some time checking out an Investigation Pak featured in Science A-Z, a non-fiction reader resource associated with Reading A-Z. With the resource still mostly underused but our school year well underway, Wendy Pavlicek and I … Continue reading
Everyone is an English Teacher
One moment of writing by juliejordanscott on flickr Establishing goals? Easy. The challenge is in the realization. No truth could be more apparent than in education where high-bars are continuously set for schools (I don’t have to name them) and … Continue reading
Stories of Science for an Authentic Audience
Eighth graders can be a tough crowd to please with graduation on the horizon. Mix in state standardized tests along with a four-day class trip to Washington D.C. and you have more students checked out than books at your local … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Activities, Professional Reflections
Tagged field trip, interdisciplinary, writing
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