Download or read book Hawk Highway in the Sky written by Caroline Arnold and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of hawks, eagles, and falcons throughout the world migrate each year between their winter and summer homes. Through breathtaking photographs and clear, engaging text, readers get a close-up look at these extraordinary birds of prey at a trapping and banding station in the Goshute Mountains of eastern Nevada.

Download or read book Gotcha written by Kathleen A. Baxter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of children's books are published each year-some are outstanding, while others are not. This book makes it easier for you to find the best in children's nonfiction books, and it offers concrete, classroom-tested ideas for presenting them to students in irresistible ways. Booktalks for more than 350 nonfiction titles (appropriate for elementary and middle school students) are organized according to topics popular with young readers-Great Disasters, Unsolved Mysteries, Fascinating People, Science, and Fun Experiments to Do. In addition, there are tips on booktalking, an outline for a booktalk program, and a bibliography that can be used for collection development. Appropriate grade levels for each book are cited. Library Media Specialists will find this guide essential. The thematic approach helps teachers search for titles that correlate to curriculum areas or specific units of study. Parents can use the book with their children as a reading selection tool. Anyone who works with young children will find this book an invaluable resource.

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Download or read book Science Discoveries on the Net written by Anthony D. Fredericks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn kids onto science with these exciting Internet learning adventures. The 88 lessons in this book connect young learners to the incredible array of science knowledge and resources on the Internet. Each unit includes engaging activities and Internet research projects based on specific science concepts, along with discussion questions and lists of relevant Web sites and related literature. Grades K-6.

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Download or read book Popular Nonfiction Authors for Children written by Margaret Coggins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduce students to some of today's best nonfiction authors and their writing-and promote nonfiction reading to young learners! Engaging biographical sketches of 65 current nonfiction authors (some of them award winners) are accompanied by selective, annotated bibliographies for further reading. In addition, author photos and an author message to students enhance the experience. Biographies outline the childhoods of the authors, how they became writers, and how they go about their work. A detailed subject index allows you to plan thematic units of study and to assist students in finding reading material that matches their interests. A diversity of current authors and subjects are represented in this useful work.

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Download or read book Teaching Elementary Science written by William K. Esler and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, e, p, i, t.

Download or read book Science for the Elementary and Middle School written by Edward Victor and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2000 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text is appropriate for Elementary or Middle School Science Methods. This highly successful science methods text provides current sources of pedagogy, subject-matter content, and exploratory activities in science that are essential for a complete science course. The content correlates to the NSES (standards), examines the most effective teaching methods, and explores how science instruction can help children improve their knowledge and information processing skills. The experienced authors share the best of practice, the most useful research findings, and their richest experiences. Appropriate for education courses, the text is designed to instruct future educators in the fundamentals of teaching science at the elementary and middle school levels.* Presents strategies that integrate learning-Provides illustrations of how they may be used. * Increases the emphasis on how students can access science information and make sense of it through the use of visual and technological tools. * More than 750 activities and experiments for the elementary school curriculum-Includes exploratory activities that teachers can use immediately. * These useful activities ensure that students take a han

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