Challenging Science and Literacy Activities for K-9 Students - The Cricket Chronicles

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

AvCatherine E. Matthews

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Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect-the cricket. In this edition, teachers are given a complete guide and reproducible worksheets for elementary and middle school students. With over 30 different activities on crickets, students learn science content and skills including:·Taxonomy ·Anatomy ·Ecology ·Mark and recapture techniques for estimating population size ·Reading biological distribution maps, and ·Caring for living organisms in the classroom Many activities involve hands-on science investigations while other activities involve reading, writing, and using graphic organizers to compare crickets to kids and other insects. This book includes learning logs, which can serve as an assessment tool for the teacher and technological applications such as cricket songs, which can be downloaded and played in the classroom. Everything a teacher needs to know or do to successfully teach this unit is covered in this teacher edition. It is perfectly designed for classrooms of any size and is an original and fun alternative to the typical science curriculum.See also:Challenging Science and Literacy Activities for K-9 Students - The Cricket Chronicles, Student Edition

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-07-26
Mått182 x 228 x 8 mm
Vikt200 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor114
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781578864966

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Chapter 3 Finding Crickets and Describing Cricket HabitatsChapter 4 Respecting CricketsChapter 5 Counting Crickets that Live in Your SchoolyardChapter 6 Counting Crickets Again and Collecting CricketsChapter 7 Designing and Creating Cricket HabitatsChapter 8 Reading about CricketsChapter 9 Comparing Kids and CricketsChapter 10 Looking at CricketsChapter 11 Constructing Models of CricketsChapter 12 Reading More about Crickets & Using Cricket WordsChapter 13 Coloring Cricket Body PartsChapter 14 Identifying Cricket Story PartsChapter 15 Finding Cricket Habitat PreferencesChapter 16 Cricket ConnoisseursChapter 17 Thinking about Feeding Crickets & Feeding CricketsChapter 18 Lifestyles of CricketsChapter 19 Measuring and Comparing Leg LengthsChapter 20 Jumping CricketsChapter 21 Singing or Chirping, Chirping or SingingChapter 22 Chirping CricketsChapter 23 Reading About Chirping Crickets: Fact and FictionChapter 24 Readers' Theater: Crickets on CallChapter 25 Cricket Life CyclesChapter 26 Molting Nymphs/Aging CricketsChapter 27 Crickets in Our CountryChapter 28 Crickets around the World: So Many Ways to Say "Cricket"Chapter 29 Naming CricketsChapter 30 Cricket Conference: A Humanities SymposiumChapter 31 Cricket Conference: A Scientific SymposiumChapter 32 The Singing InsectsChapter 33 Songs of the Singers

The guide gives teachers reproducible worksheets and activities to learn basic science concepts of taxonomy, anatomy, and ecology, as well as how to read biological distribution maps and how to care for living organisms in the classroom. The teacher materials include an overview of the activity, the student objectives, materials needed and preparation necessary, time required for the activity (which is a very nice feature), and background information and procedures for the teacher. They suggest ways of organizing student groups and activities so that the experience is successful for all. It is the type of unit that can be dropped into any curriculum and completed within a few weeks.