Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 4-ESS3-1. Obtain and combine information to describe that energy and fuels are derived from natural resources and their uses affect the environment. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

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-LS2-1. Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS PE 3-LS1-1. Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death. Try these book pairs For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs:      

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 […]

Teaching Science with Kidlit

For the past few months, Alyson Beecher, the incredibly hard-working, dedicated, and passionate literacy specialist and curriculum coordinator for the Pasadena Unified School District has been working with the amazing school librarian and teachers at Jackson STEM Dual Language Magnet School to immerse grade 1 and 2 students in the lessons included in Perfect Pairs: Using Fiction […]

Teaching Science with Kidlit

NGSS 2-LS4-1. Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. Try these book pairs: For more suggestions and full lessons, check out Perfect Pairs: