Full Description
This book provides teachers with 50 dynamic activities to teach science, through music, food, games, literature, community, environment, and everyday objects. The authors share tried and tested ideas from their collective 75 years of teaching experiences. For the busy teacher with little time to plan lessons, resources are provided that include guided worksheets for activities, pre, post and during ideas to accompany activities, and vocabulary and literature connections. With this book in hand, teachers can create opportunities for students to see science in application, and to think logically as they ask questions, test ideas, and solve problems.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Using Food to Teach Science
Pancake Chemistry—Physical and Chemical Changes with Cooking
Edible Landfill—Landfills
Brown Apples—Oxidation
Pop Rocks and Soda Pop—Chemistry with Carbon Dioxide
How Many Ways Do You Taste?—Sense of Taste
Secret Food Codes—Writing Messages with Food
Don't Burn the Toast—Types of Heat Transfer
Mostly Cloudy—Types of Clouds
Baking Footprints—Fossils
Iron for Breakfast—Iron in Food
Eating the Moon—Phases of the Moon
Milky Magic—Chemical Changes with Milk
Scientific Bubble Gum—Using the Scientific Method
Chapter 2 Using Games to Teach Science
Guess the Scientist—Famous Scientists
Toss the Globe—Characteristics of Earth
Bird Beaks—Animal Adaptations
Catch Me if You Can—Habitats
Rock Scavenger Hunt with GPS—Types of Rocks
