Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to Guide Inquiry: Grades 3-6

by Ansberry, Karen Rohrich / Morgan, Emily Ansberry, Karen Rohrich / Morgan, Emily and Karen Rohrich Ansberry

Book Overview

Wouldn t it be perfect if an expert combined the appeal of children s picture books with Standards-based science content and then offered you the ready-to-teach results? Picture-Perfect Science... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873552431
• ISBN13: 9780873552431
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Well worth it!

This book has great ideas for science lessons. Everything is laid out for you and the books are not hard to find.

Spectacular Science Lessons

This book has fantastic lessons that include graphic organizers along with a hands-on approach to learning. Incorporating picture books with the lessons, it makes the lessons motivating while educating across the curriculum. The book is easy to use and the graphic organizers are "student friendly". This book is highly recommended.

great everything as promised

Why would any one get rid of this book great resource

About Picture-Perfect Science Lessons

Authors and classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan know you're short on time...so they've integrated science and reading in a natural way to help you teach both subjects at once. They know that students who aren't strong readers may be turned off by science texts...so they show how to use high-quality fiction and non-fiction picture books to engage students in grades 3-6 in hands-on, standards-based science inquiries. This book contains 15 ready-to-teach science inquiry lessons, complete with reproducible student pages and assessments. It covers a broad range of topics, and draws on such diverse children's books as Dr. Xargle's Book of Earthlets, Sheep in a Jeep, and Weird Friends: Unlikley Allies in the Animal Kingdom.

I've never seen my fourth graders so excited to learn!!

This is a must have for every elementary school science teacher. I've used just a few of the lesson plans and I'm already the most popular teacher in school. Kids that hated science before now look forward to coming to my class for the next science lesson & lab. I'm convinced that this book will have a significant impact on our standardized test courses. Thank-you Karen & Emily for the outstanding effort you've put into this book. My students and I will be forever in your debt.