Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1, Part 5
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. [Clarification Statement: Examples of human problems that can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists […]
Behind the Books: 10 Ways Authors Can Help Educators
Common Core is in the news almost daily. A lot of people don’t like the new standards, or at least the standardized testing that comes along with them. But the fact is that CCSS has been adopted by most of America, so teachers have to address the new standards regardless of the political frenzy swirling […]
Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1, Part 4
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. [Clarification Statement: Examples of human problems that can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists […]
Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1, Part 3
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. [Clarification Statement: Examples of human problems that can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists […]
Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1, Part 2
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs. [Clarification Statement: Examples of human problems that can be solved by mimicking plant or animal solutions could include designing clothing or equipment to protect bicyclists […]
Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1
This is a very meaty PE, especially if we want to do justice to the clarification statement. I’m going to focus on uses for external parts for the next few weeks. Then I’ll bring all my suggestions together with ideas that are directly relevant to the engineering part of the PE. 1-LS1-1. Use materials to […]
Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation K-ESS3-3
Expanding on last week’s post, here are some books and activities that focus specifically on one aspect of K-ESS3-3—watery worlds and the creatures that call them home. Here are some books that I recommend: Big Night for Salamanders by Sarah Merwil Lamstein Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! by April Sayre Subway Story by Julia Sarcone-Roach 365 […]
Teaching Science with Kidlit: NGSS Performance Expectation K-ESS3-3
Let’s focus on yet another kindergarten PE that is lumped under Earth & Space Science, though it really has significant overlap with life science concepts. This week, my suggestions are related to land environments. Next week, I’ll look at water environments. K-ESS3-3.Communicate and discuss solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, […]
Integrating Science and Language Arts: NGSS Performance Expectation K-ESS2-1
Expanding on the post from October 7, here are some books and activities that focus specifically on one aspect of K-ESS2-1—the role humans can play in altering an environment, either accidentally or on purpose, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Here are some books that I recommend: The Curious Garden by Peter Brown […]
Behind the Books: Thinking About Text Structure
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about “gamification” as a nonfiction text structure and included this visual of text structures specifically mentioned in the Common Core ELA standards. Grade 4 Grade 5 Describe the overall structure (chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or info in a text or part of a […]