Collaborative Teaching in the Middle Grades: Inquiry Science

ISBN-13: 9781591581918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 200 str.

Helaine Becker

Opis

This book allows you to team teach with a science specialist to drive home key library and media curriculum goals. Eight detailed chapters provide background and complete lesson plans that cover both library and general science skills and benchmarks. Included are reproducible student worksheets, tools for assessment, and a suggested resource list. Grades 6-8

"Collaborative Teaching in the Middle Grades: Inquiry Science" will enable school librarians to pursue the goal of teaching to standards. It offers a comprehensive, detailed guide to collaboration, the process and tips for success, and innovative unit lessons for grades 6-8 that support the AASL's nine "Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning," while designing lessons integrated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science's "Benchmarks for Science Literacy." It provides background material, complete lesson overview, instructional tasks and responsibilities, tools for assessment, and suggested resources in a convenient all-in-one format. Reproducible student worksheets, lesson guides, and assessments are included. Research skills such as selecting and retrieving data, evaluating data, synthesizing data, creating new data, and communicating of information are all be reinforced during each lesson.