Insights: Grades K-1 Balls & Ramps

This module builds on children's prior experiences with balls and how they move. Children focus on two themes: the properties and characteristics of balls and some of the factors that affect the way balls behave.

Children begin by comparing how a wide variety of balls roll and bounce; next they construct balls out of clay and many other materials; and then they explore the movement of different balls as the balls roll down ramps, through tubes, and around bends.

Each Teacher Guide includes:

• Specific teaching and management strategies
• Detailed teaching sequences for teaching the first three phases of the Learning Experience (Getting Started; Exploring and Discovering; and Processing For Meaning)
• Reproducible masters for Student Science Notebook pages, Group Recording Sheets, and Home-School Worksheets
• Extension activities in science, language arts and social studies
• Assessment materials (an introductory questionnaire, embedded assessments, and a final questionnaire consisting of performance and written components)
• Science Background (provides general science concepts as they are introduced and developed in the module) to help prepare teacher
• Teacher and Student Resources section (annotated lists of children's books, teacher reference books, and technological aids)