NSDL Brown Bag SeriesBeyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

January 13, 2009

6:30pm - 7:45 pm Eastern

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in partnership with Ohio State University and Stafford County Public Schools

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NSDL Brown Bag SeriesBeyond Penguins & Polar Bears: Integrating Science & Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

January 13, 2009Today’s moderator:Robert PayoNSDL Education & Outreach Specialist

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Today’s NSDL Expert

Jessica Fries-Gaither, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Project Director and Elementary Resource Specialist, Ohio State University

http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Overview of Presentation

1. Content Knowledge2. Misconceptions3. Classroom instruction

http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Today’s presentation features material related to Issue 5, August 2008:

“Water, Ice, and Snow”

http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Water in the polar regions: solid, liquid, and gas.

Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

Model Glaciers and Icebergs

How Do Snowflakes Become Ice?https://www.cresis.ku.edu/education/iibLessons/iib005.pdfModel glacier formation with marshmallows.

Do It Yourself Iceberg Sciencehttp://www.units.muohio.edu/cryolab/education/documents/MS%20Icebergs.pdfCreate icebergs with film canisters.

More lessons

Sort and Classify with Content Clips

www.contentclips.com

Share your thoughts

What do you find most challenging when teaching states and changes of matter to your students? How have you found success in teaching it effectively?

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Misconception Alert!

A change in state (melting, freezing) means a change in mass.

Use formative assessment to elicit student ideas and plan inquiry-based instruction.

Formative Assessment Probe:“Ice Cubes in a Bag” (Vol. 1)

Students make predictions and test them (for melting, freezing, or multiple changes of state).

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science: 25 Formative Assessment Probes. NSTA Press.

Misconception Alert!Water expands as it freezes because the molecules become larger.

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/8a.htmlhttp://www.classzone.com

Modeling solid and liquid water

Let’s pause for questions from the audience….

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Share your thoughts

Share with the group how you integrate science and literacy. How do you get your students excited to read about science?

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Informational Text in the Elementary Grades

Primary Grades Upper Elementary

More titles available in our Virtual Bookshelf:

Developing vocabulary

Associating an image with a new vocabulary word is a research-based strategy for effective vocabulary instruction. Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock. 2001. Classroom

Instruction That Works.

Download this template: http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:1281/Note_It_3_Ways.pdf

Learn more: Issue 7, Oct 2008

Engaging with Nonfiction Text

Good readers…

• Ask questions• Make connections• Extract facts• Reflect on the author’s purpose• Reflect on what they’ve learned

…when they read nonfiction text

Download this template: http://onramp.nsdl.org/eserv/onramp:1521/FACT_It.pdf

Learn more: Issue 9, Dec 08

Interested in learning more?

Beyond Penguins Web Seminar Series: Arctic and Antarctic BirdsApril 21, 2008 6:30pm - 8:00pm

August 2008, Issue 5 http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears Bloghttp://expertvoices.nsdl.org

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears PodcastsJanuary 2009, Issue 10

THANK YOU!

http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org

Jessica Fries-Gaither fries-gaither.1@osu.edu

Resource list for tonight’s presentation:Diigo list

National Science Digital Library Resource Center

Kaye Howe, Executive DirectorSusan Van Gundy, Deputy Director

NSDL Brown Bag Moderators:Eileen McIlvain, Communications ManagerRobert Payo, Education and Outreach Specialist