Standards-Based Science Investigations
Teacher Created Resources is pleased to introduce a new series of resource books for science. Of course, this series presents standards-based lessons in life, earth, and physical sciences. But what makes it stand apart from other books that do the same thing? This series is carefully crafted to spiral essential science ideas through the grades. The underlying philosophy of the series is to encourage students to read, to do, and to think critically about science.
As students read about science, they develop content vocabulary and scientific fluency. By doing science experiments, students see science in action and gain a clearer understanding of scientific principles and properties. When they practice the inquiry process of scientific investigation, students get a peek at how scientists work—how they learn, discover, explain and modify the world around us.
The lessons are both imaginative and effective. The language is clear, simple, and scientifically correct. Helpful extras include science inquiry worksheets, an inquiry assessment rubric, and alignment to standards.
TCR8963 Standards-Based Science Investigations, Grade 3, 144 pages, $16.99
Sample activities include hydroponic gardening, examining seashells, identifying constellations, making a cloud, observing evaporation, creating static electricity, making helicopters, and flying planes.
TCR8964 Standards-Based Science Investigations, Grade 4, 144 pages, $16.99
Sample activities include observing phototropism, investigating pill bugs, testing hardness of rocks, recording temperatures, working with switches and circuits, floating and sinking boats, and working with light and rainbows.
TCR8965 Standards-Based Science Investigations, Grade 5, 144 pages, $16.99
Sample activities include examining a goldfish, hearing heartbeats, comparing fingerprints, creating wind vanes, classifying clouds, testing acids and bases, examining X-rays, using prisms, making a periscope, and bouncing sound.
TCR8966 Standards-Based Science Investigations, Grade 6, 144 pages, $16.99
Sample activities include recognizing biomes, distinguishing nekton and benthos, observing transpiration, reading with Braille, building tectonic plates, making fossil prints, examining rocks, measuring solar system distances, charting the phases of the moon, and working with kinetic energy.
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