Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books To Guide Inquiry; Grades 3-6

by ROHRICH KAREN

• ISBN13: 9780873552431
• ISBN10: 0873552431
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn

Summary

Provides fifteen lesson plans that incorporate picture books into the science curriculum.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
About the Authors	xiii
About the Picture-Perfect Science Program	xiv
How to Find the Picture Books	xv
Lessons by Grade	xvi
Why Read Picture Books in Science Class?	1	(8)
Reading Aloud	9	(8)
Teaching Science Through Inquiry	17	(10)
BSCS 5E Instructional Model	27	(6)
National Science Education Standards	33	(4)
Earthlets	37	(16)
Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets and Seven Blind Mice
Name That Shell!	53	(16)
Seashells by the Seashore and A House for Hermit Crab
Rice Is Life	69	(22)
Rice Is Life and Rice
What's Poppin'?	91	(24)
The Popcorn Book
Mystery Pellets	115	(18)
Animal Lives: The Barn Owl and Butternut Hollow Pond
Close Encounters of the Symbiotic Kind	133	(20)
Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom
Turtle Hurdles	153	(16)
Turtle Bay and Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out!
Oil Spill!	169	(12)
Prince William and Oil Spill!
Sheep in a Jeep	181	(24)
Sheep in a Jeep
Sounds of Science	205	(10)
Sound and The Remarkable Farkle McBride
Chemical Change Cafe	215	(20)
Pancakes, Pancakes!
The Changing Moon	235	(16)
Rise the Moon; The Moon Book; and Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me
Day and Night	251	(14)
Somewhere in the World Right Now
Grand Canyon	265	(14)
Erosion and Grand Canyon: A Trail Through Time
Brainstorms: From Idea to Invention	279	(16)
Imaginative Inventions and Girls Think of Everything
Glossary	295	(6)
Index	301