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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787464603321

Titolo

STEM to story : enthralling and effective lesson plans for grades 5-8 / / edited by Jennifer Traig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, [California] : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-119-00102-1

1-119-00103-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (736 p.)

Classificazione

EDU029020

Disciplina

507.1/2

Soggetti

Science - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Creative writing (Elementary education)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; PREFACE; HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; Science and Writing; What Is STEM?; Science Teaching; An Important Note on Safety; And Finally, a Roundup of Our Best Tips; SCIENCE-O-PEDIA: A GLOSSARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; THE AUTHORS; 826's History; THE CONTRIBUTORS; CHAPTER 1: THE SCIENCE OF SAVING DAYLIGHT; CHAPTER 2: TECHNICALLY SPEAKING; Session 1: Engineering Airplanes; Session 2: Make It Better; CHAPTER 3: IT'S (PARTIALLY) ROCKET SCIENCE AND (MOSTLY) ICE CREAM; Session 1: Ice Cream; Session 2: Staying Cool; CHAPTER 4: PLANET OOBLECK; Session 1: Oobleck; Session 2: Is It Alive?

CHAPTER 5: HOW TO WRITE SCIENCE FICTIONSession 1: Exploring Technology; Session 2: Imagine a World ...; Session 3: Create the Character(s); Session 4: Bring Your World and Your Characters Together; CHAPTER 6: MAKING WAVES; CHAPTER 7: THERE MAY BE BONES; Session 1: Excavation; Session 2: Hypotheses; Session 3: A Closer Look; CHAPTER 8: TINFOIL SHIPBUILDING; CHAPTER 9: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK; Session 1: Contamination; Session 2: Filtration; Session 3: Final Challenge; CHAPTER 10: THE SCIENCE OF SUPERPOWERS; Session 1: I Am From ... (Origin Poems and DNA)

Session 2: Up, Up, and Away! (Secret Power Poems and Flight)Session 3:



Quick, to Safety! (Secret Lair Building and Haikus); Session 4: Saving the Day (Prose Poems and the Great Egg Drop); CHAPTER 11: INFINITE RECESS; Session 1: Fractal Poetry; Session 2: Leaving Space and Time; CHAPTER 12: REWRITING THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE; Session 1: The Day the Zombies Came; Session 2: Humanity Breaks Through (We Hope); Session 3: Zombies Evolve; Session 4: The Day the Zombies Died (!?!); APPENDIX; Handy Lesson Links; Self-Assessment Checklists; Common Core Curriculum Standards for English Language Arts

Next Generation Science StandardsINDEX; End User License Agreement

Sommario/riassunto

Bring STEM to life for students with zombies, rockets, celebrities, and more STEM to Story: Enthralling and Effective Lesson Plans for Grades 5-8 inspires learning through fun, engaging, and meaningful lesson plans that fuse hands-on discovery in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with creative writing. The workshop activities within the book are the innovative result of a partnership between 826 National's proven creative writing model and Time Warner Cable's Connect a Million Minds, an initiative dedicated to connecting young people to the wonders of STEM through hands-on lear