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Perfect Pairs, 3-5: Using Fiction & Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science, Grades 3-5 [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, kõrgus x laius: 254x203 mm, kaal: 670 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2016
  • Kirjastus: Stenhouse Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1571109595
  • ISBN-13: 9781571109590
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 360 pages, kõrgus x laius: 254x203 mm, kaal: 670 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Nov-2016
  • Kirjastus: Stenhouse Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1571109595
  • ISBN-13: 9781571109590
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In this book, authors Stewart and Chesley present readers with a comprehensive guide to using fiction and nonfiction picture books to teach life science in compelling new ways. The authors provide educators with twenty lessons based on a pair of books and introducing critical life science concepts, while guiding students through inquiry-based investigations in the real world. Melissa Stewart is an educational consultant and the award-winning author of more than 150 non-fiction children’s science books. Nancy Chesley is a former elementary school teacher. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Hands-on lessons can be fun and compelling, but when it comes to life science, they aren't always possible, practical, effective, or safe. Children can't follow wolves as they hunt elk, visit a prehistoric swamp, or shrink down to the size of a molecule and observe photosynthesis firsthand.  But they can explore a whole world of animals, plants, and ecosystems through the pages of beautifully illustrated, science-themed picture books.

Perfect Pairs, which marries fiction and nonfiction picture books focused on life science, helps educators think about and teach life science in a whole new way. Each of the twenty lessons in this book is built around a pair of books that introduces a critical life science concept and guides students through an inquiry-based investigative process to explore that idea—from life cycles and animal-environment interactions to the inheritance of traits and the critical role of energy in our world.

Each lesson starts with a "Wonder Statement" and comprises three stages. "Engaging Students" features a hands-on activity that captures student interest, uncovers current thinking, and generates vocabulary. The heart of the investigative process, "Exploring with Students," spotlights the paired books as the teacher reads aloud and helps students find and organize information into data tables. "Encouraging Students to Draw Conclusions" shows students how to review and analyze the information they have collected. Bringing high-quality science-themed picture books into the classroom engages a broad range of students, addresses the Performance Expectations outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards, and supports the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

Even if you are science shy, Perfect Pairs can help you become a more confident teacher whose classroom buzzes with curious students eager to explore their natural world.

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'Hands-on lessons can be fun and compelling, but when it comes to life science, they aren't always possible, practical, effective, or safe. Children can't follow wolves as they hunt elk, visit a prehistoric swamp, or shrink down to the size of a molecule and observe photosynthesis firsthand. But they can explore a whole world of animals, plants, and ecosystems through the pages of beautifully illustrated, science-themed picture books.

The collaborative work of Melissa Stewart (an award-winning author of more than 150 science-themed nonfiction books for children) and Nancy Chesley (a former elementary school teacher for twenty-six years and a K-5 science and literacy specialist for six years), Perfect Pairs: Using Fiction and Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science, Grades 3-5, showcases fiction and nonfiction picture books focused on life science, helps educators think about and teach life science in a whole new way.

Each of the twenty lessons comprising Perfect Pairs is built around a pair of books that introduces a critical life science concept and guides students through an inquiry-based investigative process to explore that idea-from life cycles and animal-environment interactions to the inheritance of traits and the critical role of energy in our world.

Each lesson starts with a "Wonder Statement" and comprises three stages.





"Engaging Students" features a hands-on activity that captures student interest, uncovers current thinking, and generates vocabulary. The heart of the investigative process, "Exploring with Students," spotlights the paired books as the teacher reads aloud and helps students find and organize information into data tables. "Encouraging Students to Draw Conclusions" shows students how to review and analyze the information they have collected.



Bringing high-quality science-themed picture books into the classroom engages a broad range of students, addresses the Performance Expectations outlined in the Next Generation Science Standards, and supports the goals of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

Critique: Thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, Perfect Pairs: Using Fiction and Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science, Grades 3-5 is an extraordinarily informative and practical instruction manual and textbook that is unreservedly recommended for college and university Teacher Education reference collections in general, and Elementary School Classroom Instruction supplemental studies reading lists in particular.'

- Julie Summers

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(6)
How Perfect Pairs Can Help You
Not All Nonfiction for Children Is Created Equal
Why Combine Science and Children's Books?
Why Pair Fiction and Nonfiction?
From Idea to Book
Who Is This Guide For?
Getting Started
7(8)
Obtaining the Books
Starting with a Wonder Statement
The Investigative Process
Reinforcing the Concept
ELA Links
The Wonder Journal
Science Dialogues and Science Circles
Meeting the Standards
15(10)
Addressing the Next Generation Science Standards
Supporting the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
Lessons for Grade 3
25(76)
Lesson 3.1 What the Lives of All Creatures Have in Common, Even When Their Life Cycles Are Different
27(12)
Tadpole's Promise by Jeanne Willis & A Grand Old Tree by Mary Newell DePalma
Lesson 3.2 How Being Part of a Group Helps Animals Survive
39(9)
Blackout by John Rocco & Family Pack by Sandra Markle
Lesson 3.3 Why Some Animals Look Different from Their Family Members
48(9)
Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio & No Two Alike by Keith Baker
Lesson 3.4 What Fossils Can Tell Us About Life and Environments Long Ago
57(11)
Fossil by Bill Thomson & Born to Be Giants: How Baby Dinosaurs Grew to Rule the World by Lita Judge
Lesson 3.5 How Variations in Characteristics Can Help Some Animals Survive
68(10)
Swimmy by Leo Lionni & Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why by Lita Judge
Lesson 3.6 How Animals Survive in a Cold Environment
78(11)
Duck at the Door by Jackie Urbanovic & Survival at 40 Below by Debbie S. Miller
Lesson 3.7 How People Try to Solve Problems That Occur When an Environment Changes
89(12)
Moletown by Torben Kuhlmann & When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Picture Books for Grade 3 Lessons
99(2)
Lessons for Grade 4
101(62)
Lesson 4.1 How Our Body Structures Help Us Survive
103(10)
Henry's Heart by Charise Mericle Harper & Bones: Skeletons and How They Work by Steve Jenkins
Lesson 4.2 How Feathers Help Birds Survive
113(8)
Flight School by Lita Judge & Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart
Lesson 4.3 How a Tree's Structures Help It Survive
121(9)
The Promise by Nicola Davies & Are Trees Alive?
Debbie S. Miller
Lesson 4.4 How Animals Depend on Their Senses
130(9)
Sun Dance, Water Dance by Jonathan London & Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre
Lesson 4.5 How Natural Resources Provide Electrical Energy
139(11)
The Rain Came Down by David Shannon & My Light by Molly Bang
Lesson 4.6 How Energy Use Affects Environments and the Animals Living There
150(13)
365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental & Earth: Feeling the Heat by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Picture Books for Grade 4 Lessons
161(2)
Lessons for Grade 5
163(74)
Lesson 5.1A Where Plants Get Most of the Materials They Use to Grow
165(9)
The Curious Garden by Peter Brown & Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
Lesson 5.1B Where Animals Get the Energy They Need to Live and Grow
174(8)
Plantzilla by Jerdine Nolen & Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life by Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm
Lesson 5.2 Why Dead Plants and Animals Don't Pile Up in Natural Places
182(8)
Yucky Worms by Vivian French & Tiny Creatures: The World of Microbes by Nicola Davies
Lesson 5.3 How Matter Moves Among Living Things and the Environment
190(12)
Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld & Here Is the Wetland by Madeleine Dunphy
Lesson 5.4 How Living Things Depend on Their Environment for Survival
202(12)
The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer & Rain, Rain, Rain Forest by Brenda Z. Guiberson
Lesson 5.5 How Introduced Species Can Affect an Ecosystem
214(9)
The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill & Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems by Mary Batten
Lesson 5.6 How We Can Protect Earth's Resources and Environments
223(14)
Subway Story by Julia Sarcone-Roach & Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World by Allan Drummond
Picture Books for Grade 5 Lessons
235(2)
Appendix A Tables of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) Addressed in Perfect Pairs Lessons 237(18)
Appendix B Reproducibles for Perfect Pairs Lessons 255(76)
Bibliography of Picture Books in Perfect Pairs Lessons 331(6)
Professional References 337(2)
Credits 339(4)
Index 343
Melissa Stewart is an award-winning author of more than 150 science-themed nonfiction books for children and the coauthor of Perfect Pairs: Using Fiction & Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science, K-2. She also maintains the blog Celebrate Science (http://celebratescience.blogspot.com) and offers school visits and teacher inservice programs that focus on nonfiction writing, using childrens books to address curriculum standards, and creative ways to integrate science and language arts instruction. Her website is www.melissa-stewart.com.

Nancy Chesley was an elementary teacher for twenty-six years and a K5 science and literacy specialist for six years. She won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Elementary Science Teaching in 2001 and the Milken Foundation National Distinguished Educator Award in 2002. She received a BA in elementary education and an MSEd in literacy education from the University of Southern Maine. Nancy is the coauthor of Perfect Pairs: Using Fiction & Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science, K2.