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

• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, [California] : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (736 p.)
• Disciplina: 507.1/2
• Soggetto topico: Science - Study and teaching (Elementary); Creative writing (Elementary education)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): TraigJennifer
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: STEM to story
• ISBN: 1-119-00102-1; 1-119-00103-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460631403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II