Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-LS1-2. Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.  Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions ad full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-4. Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-3. Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-2. Use evidence to construct an explanation for how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing. Try this book pair: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS4-1. Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. Try this book pair: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS3-1. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms. Try this book pair:   For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Lovin’ the Learning

One of my favorite lessons from Perfect Pairs: Using Fiction and Nonfiction Picture Books to Teach Life Science uses the books Just One Bite by Lola Schaefer and A Frog in the Bog by Karma Wilson to address the first grade NGSS Performance Expectation 1-LS1-1, which includes “how animals use their external [body] parts to […]

Understanding NGSS

The Teaching Channel and Achieve have teamed up to create four really excellent videos about the Next Generation Science Standards. They can help you (1) understand the rationale behind the new standards and (2) tweak your current lessons to emphasize the central tenets of the standards. All of the examples in the videos are related to […]