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Once upon an earth science book : 12 interdisciplinary activities to create confident readers / Jodi Wheeler-Toppen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Arlington, Virginia : National Science Teachers Association, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781941316740
  • 1941316743
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Once upon an earth science bookDDC classification:
  • 550.71/2 23
LOC classification:
  • QE28
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter 1. Getting started -- chapter 2. The reading strategies -- chapter 3. How do you know that? Helping students with claims, evidence, and reasoning -- chapter 4. Reconstructing the past -- chapter 5. Mountain mayhem -- chapter 6. Continents on the move -- chapter 7. The ocean on top of a mountain -- chapter 8. Rock-solid evidence -- chapter 9. Look out below! -- chapter 10. Oceans on the move -- chapter 11. Trash soup -- chapter 12. Fury in the water -- chapter 13. On the outside looking in -- chapter 14. The 20-year winter -- chapter 15. Hair dryer helper.
Summary: This book provides everything needed to boost students' skills in both science and reading. Starting with advice on teaching reading comprehension strategies to middle school students, it also provides hands-on science activities, readings that cover important earth science concepts and support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), writing activities that prompt students to connect what they did with what they read, and assessment exercises.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chapter 1. Getting started -- chapter 2. The reading strategies -- chapter 3. How do you know that? Helping students with claims, evidence, and reasoning -- chapter 4. Reconstructing the past -- chapter 5. Mountain mayhem -- chapter 6. Continents on the move -- chapter 7. The ocean on top of a mountain -- chapter 8. Rock-solid evidence -- chapter 9. Look out below! -- chapter 10. Oceans on the move -- chapter 11. Trash soup -- chapter 12. Fury in the water -- chapter 13. On the outside looking in -- chapter 14. The 20-year winter -- chapter 15. Hair dryer helper.

This book provides everything needed to boost students' skills in both science and reading. Starting with advice on teaching reading comprehension strategies to middle school students, it also provides hands-on science activities, readings that cover important earth science concepts and support the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), writing activities that prompt students to connect what they did with what they read, and assessment exercises.

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