Available for Pre-order. This publication will be released in OCTOBER 2016 Great news for multitasking middle school teachers: Science educators Terry Shiverdecker and Jessica Fries-Gaither can help you blend inquiry-based science and literacy instruction to support student learning and maximize your time. Several unique features make Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School a valuable resource: Lessons integrate all aspects of literacy reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. The texts are relevant nonfiction, including trade books, newspaper and magazine articles, online material, infographics, and even videos. A learning-cycle framework helps students deepen their understanding with data collection and analysis before reading about a concept. Ten investigations support current standards and encompass life, physical, and Earth and space sciences. Units range from Chemistry, Toys, and Accidental Inventions to Thermal Energy: An Ice Cube s Kryptonite! The authors have made sure the book is teacher-friendly. Each unit comes with scientific background, a list of common misconceptions, an annotated text list, safety considerations, differentiation strategies, reproducible student pages, and assessments. This middle school resource is a follow-up to the authors award-winning Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers for grades 3 5, which one reviewer called very thorough, and any science teacher s dream to read. The book will change the way you think about engaging your students in science and literacy.

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Litera

Fries-Gaither, Jessica

Shiverdecker, Terry

Children's Books

NSTA Press

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data or just write down their thoughts. You also get four steps to starting your own notebook, plus mini-bios of the diverse featured scientists. Written in captivating rhyme, the text is sprinkled with lively illustrations.

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings (Scientists and Their Practices)

Biographies

NSTA Kids

Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data (Scientists and Their Practices)

If you think of science as a puzzle, you’ll see that data is a key to unlocking it. Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data touches on the world’s many riddles—from how we see to what’s at the bottom of the ocean. It shares how scientists have solved such puzzles by collecting measurements, taking notes, and even making sketches. The book also provides mini-bios of the nine featured scientists plus four steps to using data to tease out your own answers about how the world works. Exemplary Evidence’s author is Jessica Fries-Gaither, a science educator who also wrote the award-winning NSTA Kids book Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings. Once again, she mixes sprightly storytelling with energetic rhyme, and Linda Olliver’s light-hearted drawings bring the ideas to life. It all helps explain how a sometimes-unappreciated part of science is as important now as it has been to scientists for centuries. As the author writes: Data supports conclusions; it can change people’s minds; It is used to build theories that help humankind. Scientists all along have known this to be true: Data is powerful! Now, what will yours do?

Science, Nature & How It Works

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data or just write down their thoughts. You also get four steps to starting your own notebook, plus mini-bios of the diverse featured scientists. Written in captivating rhyme, the text is sprinkled with lively illustrations. In fact, it looks a lot like the science notebook you’ll be eager to start after reading this inspiring book.

"This practical guide shows how notebooks can become a tangible record of students emerging understanding of and proficiency in science. Students can use their notebooks to pose questions, write down observations, work through puzzling data, or think through new ideas. Teachers can use them to ascertain each students strengths and challenges in participating in the academic work of science. The book explains how to kick off a notebooking practice and offers ways to help students learn to organize information while also preserving their own voices and choices. The book also discusses lessons, instructional routines, and assessment techniques that pair well with science notebooks"--

Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms

Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions

In Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers, science educators Jessica Fries-Gaither and Terry Shiverdecker help teachers blend literacy into elementary science instruction. This unique book will show teachers how to teach science using a variety of nonfiction text sets (such as field guides, reference books, and narrative expository texts) and replace individual lessons with a learning-cycle format (including hands-on investigations, readings, directed discussion, and problem solving). Research-based and teacher-friendly, Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers shows how inquiry can engage your students in reading nonfiction texts, discussing important science concepts, and writing to both develop understanding and share information. Here are some of the book's special features: Eight units covering life, physical, Earth, and space science from "Drip Drop Detectives: Exposing the Water Cycle" to "Classroom Curling: Exploring Forces and Motion" to "Beaks and Biomes: Understanding Adaptation in Migrating Organisms." Two additional units cover the nature of science. All units have been classroom-tested for effectiveness and align with national science standards and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. Detailed scientific background, common misconceptions associated with the content, an annotated list of the texts in the text set, safety considerations, reproducible student pages, and suggested assessments. Authentic, inquiry-based contexts for reading, writing, and discussion through read-alouds, collaborative activities, graphic organizers, and writing prompts. Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers will change the way you think about engaging your students. The authors show that it's possible to integrate literacy into elementary-level science instruction without sacrificing quality in either area.

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy, Grades 3–5

Science & Math

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Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Litera

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings (Scientists and Their Practices)

Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data (Scientists and Their Practices)

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings

Exemplary Evidence: Scientists and Their Data (Scientists and Their Practices)

Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms

Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy, Grades 3–5