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Hands-On Earth Science Activities for Grades K-6 by Marvin N. Tolman |
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EARTH SCIENCES_STUDY AND TEACHING | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Three books with more than 150 exciting hands-on activities to teach students thinking and reasoning skills and basic science concepts and facts The perfect complement to any elementary school science program, these activity books foster discovery and enhance the development of valuable learning skills through direct experience. Activities in the Earth Science volume covers air, water, weather, earth, ecology, gravity and flight, and celestial bodies. The Life Science book includes plants and seeds, animals, adaptations and life cycles, body systems and senses, and health and nutrition. Physical Science activities relate to the nature of matter, energy, light, sound, machines, magnetism, static electricity, and electromagnetism. The updated editions include an expanded 'Teacher Information' section for all of the activities, enhanced user friendliness, inquiry-based models and cooperative learning projects for the classroom. Projects use materials easily found around the classroom or home, provide science fair ideas at the end of each section, link activities to national science standards, and include other new material. Marvin Tolman, EdD (Provo, UT), a well-known and popular presenter at the annual National Science Teachers Association meeting, has taught elementary science methods courses at Brigham Young University since 1975. This is the second edition of Marvin N. Tolman's bestselling book Hands-On Earth Science Activities for Grades K-6. Like all the books in The Science Problem-Solving Curriculum Library series, this revised edition offers compelling activities that help teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic science concepts and facts. The book's activities follow the discovery/inquiry approach and encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and infer based on their own hands-on experiences. This new edition includes an expanded Teacher Information section, inquiry-based models, and complex cooperative learning projects using materials found around the home. Many of the activities easily become great science fair ideas as well as activities that correlate with the national standards. Designed to be user friendly, the book includes easy-to-use, hands on activities and is organized into eight sections: Air Water Weather The Earth Ecology Above the Earth Beyond the Earth Current Electricity 'The Hands-On books are an awesome resource that has enhanced my science units. Every activity has easy step-by-step instructions, a materials list, and teacher information. My students and I love the activities.'--Patti W. Seeholzer, third-grade teacher, River Heights Elementary School, Utah and winner of the 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching 'A great resource for all prospective and practicing elementary teachers.'--David T. Crowther, associate professor, science education, University of Nevada , Reno This second edition of Marvin N. Tolman2s bestselling book Hands-On Earth Science Activities for Grades K-6 offers compelling activities that help teach students thinking and reasoning skills along with basic science concepts and facts. The book2s activities follow the discovery/inquiry approach and encourage students to analyze, synthesize, and infer based on their own hands-on experiences. This new edition includes an expanded 'Teacher Information' section, and increased emphasis on collaboration, shared observations, and writing. It includes inquiry-based models and cooperative learning projects using materials easily found in the classroom or around the home. Many of the activities can easily become great science fair ideas, and lessons and activities are correlated with national science standards. Designed to be user friendly, the book is organized into eight sections and printed in a lay-flat format. Air Water Weather The Earth Ecology Above the Earth Beyond the Earth Current Electricity 'The Hands-On books are an awesome resource that has enhanced my science units. Every activity has easy step-by-step instructions, a materials list, and teacher information. My students and I love the activities.' -Patti W. Seeholzer, third-grade teacher,River Heights Elementary School, Utah and winner of the2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching 'A great resource for all prospective and practicing elementary teachers.' -David T. Crowther, associate professor, science education,University of Nevada, Reno |
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