NSDL Brown Bag SeriesBeyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom
January 13, 2009
6:30pm - 7:45 pm Eastern
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NSDL Brown Bag SeriesBeyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom
January 13, 2009Today’s moderator:Robert PayoNSDL Education & Outreach Specialist
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Today’s NSDL Expert
Jessica Fries-Gaither, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Project Director and Elementary Resource Specialist, Ohio State University
http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org
Overview of Presentation
1. Content Knowledge2. Misconceptions3. Classroom instruction
http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org
Today’s presentation features material related to Issue 5, August 2008:
“Water, Ice, and Snow”
http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org
Water in the polar regions: solid, liquid, and gas.
Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Model Glaciers and Icebergs
How Do Snowflakes Become Ice?https://www.cresis.ku.edu/education/iibLessons/iib005.pdfModel glacier formation with marshmallows.
Do It Yourself Iceberg Sciencehttp://www.units.muohio.edu/cryolab/education/documents/MS%20Icebergs.pdfCreate icebergs with film canisters.
More lessons
Sort and Classify with Content Clips
www.contentclips.com
Share your thoughts
What do you find most challenging when teaching states and changes of matter to your students? How have you found success in teaching it effectively?
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Misconception Alert!
A change in state (melting, freezing) means a change in mass.
Use formative assessment to elicit student ideas and plan inquiry-based instruction.
Formative Assessment Probe:“Ice Cubes in a Bag” (Vol. 1)
Students make predictions and test them (for melting, freezing, or multiple changes of state).
Uncovering Student Ideas in Science: 25 Formative Assessment Probes. NSTA Press.
Misconception Alert!Water expands as it freezes because the molecules become larger.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8a.htmlhttp://www.classzone.com
Modeling solid and liquid water
Let’s pause for questions from the audience….
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Share your thoughts
Share with the group how you integrate science and literacy. How do you get your students excited to read about science?
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Informational Text in the Elementary Grades
Primary Grades Upper Elementary
More titles available in our Virtual Bookshelf:
Developing vocabulary
Associating an image with a new vocabulary word is a research-based strategy for effective vocabulary instruction. Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock. 2001. Classroom
Instruction That Works.
Download this template: http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:1281/Note_It_3_Ways.pdf
Learn more: Issue 7, Oct 2008
Engaging with Nonfiction Text
Good readers…
• Ask questions• Make connections• Extract facts• Reflect on the author’s purpose• Reflect on what they’ve learned
…when they read nonfiction text
Download this template: http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:1521/FACT_It.pdf
Learn more: Issue 9, Dec 08
Interested in learning more?
Beyond Penguins Web Seminar Series: Arctic and Antarctic BirdsApril 21, 2008 6:30pm - 8:00pm
August 2008, Issue 5 http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Bloghttp://expertvoices.nsdl.org
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears PodcastsJanuary 2009, Issue 10
THANK YOU!
http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org
Jessica Fries-Gaither [email protected]
Resource list for tonight’s presentation:Diigo list
National Science Digital Library Resource Center
Kaye Howe, Executive DirectorSusan Van Gundy, Deputy Director
NSDL Brown Bag Moderators:Eileen McIlvain, Communications ManagerRobert Payo, Education and Outreach Specialist