4 full color transparencies 8 reproducible pagesteaching guide

Gears and Wheels Thematic Unit

Ilene L Follman

Milliken Publishing

Color Overheads Included!!The information and activities in this Space Exploration Resource Guide are organized in roughly three sections: the Space Travel Simulation; Our Solar System and Beyond; and Energy, Force, and Motion in Space. Learning opportunities in each section are planned to engage children and teachers in experiences that allow for free exploration, concept development, and application of concepts. A classroom space shuttle simulation provides the focus for child exploration throughout the unit of study. Pretend space exploration stimulates curiosity, motivating children to research information about the solar system and investigate scientific principles at work in the universe. The activities in the resource guide are not organized in a sequential, lock-step way, but rather are structured so teachers can choose from activities as if they were selecting from a menu-planning learning opportunities based on children's interests and levels of understanding. The concepts of time, distance, and space are very abstract and difficult for many young children to comprehend. Therefore, activities outlined in this resource guide vary in general grade-level appropriateness allowing teachers to adapt them to meet their own students' needs. Opportunities to develop the science skills of observing, data gathering, classifying, measuring, recording, listening, and writing are numerous. Children can record observations, experiments, and investigations in their space journals. As children represent their understanding in words and pictures, they revisit a concept or experience to organize their thinking and construct their own meaning and logic.

Space Exploration

Karen Hales Mecham

Engaging stories covering current personalities, popular sports figures and events, mysteries, disasters, legends and mythology, and amazing facts in science and nature hold students interest and capture their imaginations. A controlled vocabulary averaging two readability levels below content ensures understanding and promotes confidence.

Building Comprehension - Grade 5

Sue D Royals

Children's Books

Engaging stories covering current personalities, popular sports figures and events, mysteries, disasters, legends and mythology, and amazing facts in science and nature hold students interest and capture their imaginations. A controlled vocabulary averaging two readability levels below content ensures understanding and promotes confidence.

Building Comprehension - Grade 7

The high-interest, low-vocabulary stories in this book feature diversified subject matter, including: current personalities, popular sports figures and events, ghosts, monsters, and mysteries, visual and performing arts, disasters, excerpts from legends and mythology, and amazing facts and wonders in science and nature. The stories are written with a controlled vocabulary averaging two readability levels below the content. A male-female, ethnic, and geographic balance has been maintained in the selections. Follow-up questions reinforce key comprehension skills. These include: recognition of main idea, significant details, word meaning in context, inference, and drawing conclusions. Thoughtful discussions and on-going projects can be generated from many of the stories. Where space permits, a follow-through activity has been included to lead to self-motivated reading or to valuable discussion, also allowing the teacher opportunity to award extra credit.

Building Comprehension - Grade 9

Ancient Egypt Timeline

Follow the strands of history with these unique teaching aids! A pictorial history of ancient Rome is depicted from the years 753 B.C. through 476 A.D. Colorfully illustrated with precise detail, the reverse side includes reproducible activity cards for extending classroom activities. Each card comes perforated through the center so that it can be pulled apart to create an extra long (6"" x 68"") continuous timeline for your classroom wall or bulletin board.

Ancient Rome Timeline

Follow the strands of history with these unique teaching aids! A pictorial history of ancient China is depicted from the years 6000 B.C. through 1644 A.D. Colorfully illustrated with precise detail, the reverse side includes reproducible activity cards for extending classroom activities. Each card comes perforated through the center so that it can be pulled apart to create an extra long (6"" x 68"") continuous timeline for your classroom wall or bulletin board.

Ancient China Timeline

Follow the strands of history with these unique teaching aids! A pictorial history of early Africa is depicted from the years 8000 B.C. through 1480 A.D. Colorfully illustrated with precise detail, the reverse side includes reproducible activity cards for extending classroom activities. Each card comes perforated through the center so that it can be pulled apart to create an extra long (6"" x 68"") continuous timeline for your classroom wall or bulletin board.

Early Africa Timeline

Follow the strands of history with these unique teaching aids! A pictorial history of the United States is depicted from the years 1903 through the 1990s. Colorfully illustrated with precise detail, the reverse side includes reproducible activity cards for extending classroom activities. Each card comes perforated through the center so that it can be pulled apart to create an extra long (6"" x 68"") continuous timeline for your classroom wall or bulletin board.

U.S. History/20th Century Timeline

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