Full Description
This book provides targeted and invaluable help for the busy elementary school librarian and the science teacher as they work together to design and co-teach library-based lessons guided by the Next Generation Science Standards, English Literacy Common Core Standards, and the new AASL Standards.
All standards are cited in easy-to-use reproducible lessons. Energy-packed and interactive lessons are coordinated to common elementary science curricula at the grade level indicated and are also adaptable and usable as template lessons as needed. Necessary handouts and other tools, with current lists of recommended resources, are provided.
Elementary school librarians and classroom teachers as well as curriculum coordinators, elementary reading, social studies, and science instructors will find value in this collection of lessons. The highly rated materials recommended in the resource lists are valuable for aiding librarians in collection development to support new and current standards.
Contents
Introduction
Standards
Chapter 1: Kindergarten
What is in a pond?
Beaver
Sun
Brr! It is cold!
Living?
Push or Pull
What does a flower need?
Recycle
Chapter 2: First Grade
Animals in Camouflage
Can you hear it?
Day and Night
Traits
Light Waves and Shadows
Seasons
Duck
Reaching the Moon
Chapter 3: Second Grade
What is the Matter?
Plants need you, and you need them
Rainforest
Slowing Soil Erosion
Erosion or Weathering
Landforms
Water Cycle
Pollination
Chapter 4: Lower and Upper Elementary Grades Engineering
Engineering a Playground - Lower Elementary
Engineering a Plane - Upper Elementary
Chapter 5: Third Grade
Pod or Pride Groups?
Tadpoles to Frogs
Balanced Force
Magnets, Pushing or Pulling?
Traits Inherited
Keep Safe
What is the Weather?
Digging up Dinosaur Fossils
Chapter 6: Fourth Grade
Weathering and Erosion
Rock On, Grand Canyon
How Does the Eye See?
Potential and Kinetic Energy
Energy
Buzzing About Bees
Electrifying
Big Wave
Chapter 7: Fifth Grade
Flying into a Storm
Mojave Desert
Air, A Gas?
It's an Oily Situation!
Power in Gravity
What's Up for Dinner in the Woods?
Pants Need Soil?
Starring: "The Sun and The Stars"
Bibliography
Index
