It is common to engage students in the process of science, using mostly hands-on activities, and equally common to provide students with only science knowledge through mostly text-based experiences. Neither of these approaches is authentic to how scientists make sense of the world. Both fail to connect those experiences to the larger purpose of science. In this book Jacquey and Gina show you why, and how integrating science and literacy instruction supports students' understanding of and engagement in both. Using research as their guide, Jacquey and Gina show you how to integrate science and literacy learning in a way that reflects the authentic ways scientists work. The authors have identified three key principles supporting this integration: Principle #1: Frame student investigations with a scientific purpose. Principle #2: Integrate "hands-on" science with literacy to support science learning. Principle #3: Help students engage with text in science. Throughout the book, they describe research that supports each principle and share examples of effective integration in the classroom that enhance students' science learning, reading and writing growth, and motivation. To avoid the trap of textbook-only science or inquiry-only science, we need to aim for synergy - engaging students in using firsthand experiences and text-based experiences as connected parts of investigating questions about the natural world.

No More Science Kits or Texts in Isolation: Teaching Science and Literacy Together (NOT THIS, BUT THAT)

Education & Teaching

Cruz, M. Colleen

Barber, Jacqueline

Cervetti, Gina

Duke, Nell K.

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

One of the most popular GEMS guides, students, grades 5-9, combine fun and intense enjoyment with an exploration of important concepts in chemistry and physics through imaginative experiments with soap bubbles. Investigations include: devising bubble-blowing instruments; employing the Bernoulli principle to keep bubbles aloft; creating bubbles that last for days; and using color patterns to predict when bubbles will pop.

Bubble-ology: Teacher's Guide, Grades 5-9 (Great Explorations in Math & Science)

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Lawrence Hall of Science

Crime Lab Chemistry (Old Edition)

GEMS-Regents of the Univ of CA

Book by Barber, Jacqueline, Buegler, Marion, Lowell, Laura

Discovering Density (Great Explorations in Math and Science)

Lowell, Laura

Buegler, Marion

Science & Math

This new handbook is designed to assist teachers and administrators who are responsible for planning school and district science programs chart a course through the maze of new national and state standards, benchmarks, and frameworks. Part I of The Architecture of Reform is intended for readers who want to become familiar with the key documents in science education reform so that they can decide which documents they want to spend more time on and then move ahead in the planning process. 
Part II relates the vision and goals of these key reform documents to the GEMS series. The world of science and mathematics education, like the subject matter from which it springs, is in a constant state of ferment and change. As national standards and related guidelines and frameworks are discussed, debated, and, most importantly, implemented, more will be learned. Within this context of change, this handbook represents our attempt to synthesize the major building blocks of the leading reform documents and to summarize how well GEMS activities fit into that larger picture.

Architecture Of Reform: GEMS (Great Explorations in Math & Science) and National Standards

Bergman, Lincoln

Sneider, Cary I.

Lawrence Hall of Science/GEMS

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Of Cabbages & Chemistry (Old Edition) (Great Explorations in Math and Science)

Chemistry

Vitamin C Testing (Old Edition)

A Parent's Guide to Great Explorations in Math and S: How to Help Your Kids Succeed in Math and Science and Have Fun Yourself (Gems : Or How to Help ... in Math and Science and Have Fun Yourself!)

Book by Barber, Jacqueline, Willard, Carolyn

Bubble Festival: Presenting Bubble Activities in a Learning Station Format/Teacher's Guide

Univ. of California

These activities, for grades Kindergarten through six, bring the natural world inside, deepening student understanding of and connection to all living things. The activities begin with an exploration of soil. Teams of students design and construct terrariums for the classroom. Sowbugs, earthworms, and crickets are placed in the terrarium habitat and students observe and record changes over time. There are detailed instructions on setting up and maintaining the terrariums, along with concise and interesting biological information on a number of possible small organisms (such as sow bugs, earthworms, and snails) that can become terrarium inhabitants. Special features include an optional soil profile test for older students and making 3decomposition bags to learn more about the natural life cycle.

Terrarium Habitats

Gems (Project)

Hosoume, Kimi

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