Exploring
Ecology: 49 Ready-to-Use Activities for Grades 4-8 Elementary NSTA Press and NSTA Recommends Books on Earth Science
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Exploring
Ecology: 49 Ready-to-Use Activities for Grades 4-8
NSTA Press
Grades 4–8
Get out of the classroom and into the field, where students can get up close and personal with the environment. Exploring Ecology gets you ready and then tells you what to do when you get there. It’s a collection of hands-on, inquiry-based activities developed and written by two teachers who test-drove them with their own students. The book can be used for an eight-week unit on ecology or for shorter, one- or two-week units.
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Dig
In! Hands-On Soil Investigations
NSTA Press
Grades K–4
Give students the dirt on soil with a practical book that brings new meaning
to the term "hands-on." Using these 12 activities and two original
stories as guides, kids will soon be up to their elbows in the study of soil
formation, habitats and land use, animals that depend on soil, plants that grow
in soil, soil science, and soil conservation. Each teacher-tested lesson plan
offers helpful background, assessment methods, and suggestions for further exploration.
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Teaching
Green: The Elementary Years
Grades K–4
Who better than the editors of Green Teacher magazine to help you teach basic environmental concepts while nurturing children’s respect for the natural world? This book compiles 50 of the magazine’s kid-tested teaching strategies to promote interdisciplinary learning about ecosystems and critical thinking about environmental issues around the world. Whether exploring world hunger or making a worm farm, your classes will benefit from multi-sensory activities developed especially for the youngest environmentalists.
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