Picture-perfect science lessons using children's books to guide inquiry, 3-6

Classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan know elementary educators are usually crunched for science instructional time and could often use refresher explanations of scientific concepts. So the authors added comprehensive background notes to each chapter and included new reading strategies....

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Main Author: Ansberry, Karen Rohrich, 1966-
Other Authors: Morgan, Emily R. 1973-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Arlington, Va. : NSTA, c2010.
Edition: Expanded 2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why read picture books in science class ?
  • Reading aloud
  • Teaching science through inquiry
  • BSCS 5E instructional model
  • National Science Education Standards
  • Earthlets
  • Name that shell!
  • Rice is life
  • What's poppin' ?
  • Mystery pellets
  • Close encounters of the symbiotic kind
  • Turtle hurdles
  • Oil spill!
  • Sheep in a jeep
  • Sounds of science
  • Chemical Change Cafe
  • The changing moon
  • Day and night
  • Grand Canyon
  • Brainstorms : from idea to invention
  • Bugs!
  • Batteries included
  • The secrets of flight
  • Down the drain
  • If I built a car.