Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, K–2: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning - Softcover

Morgan, Emily; Ansberry, Karen

 
9781681403281: Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, K–2: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1681403285 ISBN 13: 9781681403281
Verlag: NSTA Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

For teachers eager to integrate STEM into their school day, Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons is an exciting development. This book’s 15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world. They embed reading-comprehension strategies that integrate the STEM subjects and English language arts through high-quality picture books. You’ll help your K–2 students engage in STEM activities while learning to read and reading to learn Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, K–2 draws on diverse and attention-grabbing books such as The Handiest Things in the World, The Day the Crayons Came Home, and I Wanna Iguana. The lessons will lead your students to ask questions and define problems; obtain, evaluate, and communicate information; and engage in argument from evidence. Along the way, students invent a handy backpack, design their own process for recycling crayons, and build a model habitat for an imaginary pet. Through these lessons and activities, all young students, including reluctant scientists and struggling readers, will quickly find themselves absorbed in STEM-related discovery. Along with these new lessons come the easy-to-use features that have made Picture-Perfect a bestselling series for more than a dozen years: • Fiction and nonfiction book pairs • Background reading, materials lists, student pages, and assessments for each lesson • Connections to science standards and the Common Core State Standards for both English language arts and mathematics Picture-Perfect STEM is a powerful tool for guiding instruction. You’ll love how effective this book is, and your students will love learning about STEM.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Emily Morgan is a former elementary and middle school science teacher. She is the author of the Next Time You See picture book series for children and co-author of the Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons series for teachers. Her book Next Time You See a Sunset was selected for Story Time from Space where it was read by astronaut Mark Vande Hei on the International Space Station and shared with children all over the globe. She has served as a science consultant for the Hamilton County Educational Service Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, as the science leader for the High AIMS Consortium, and Board President of iSPACE: The STEM Learning Place. Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in education from Wright State University and a master’s in education from the University of Dayton. 

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Verlag
NSTA Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1681403285
ISBN 13 
9781681403281
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
345
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