Picture-Perfect Stem Lessons, K-2: Using Children's Books to Inspire Stem Learning - Softcover

Morgan, Emily; Ansberry, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1681403285 ISBN 13: 9781681403281

Publisher: National Science Teachers Association, 2017

Synopsis

For teachers eager to integrate STEM into their school day, Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons is an exciting development. This book’s 15 kid-friendly lessons convey how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics intersect in the real world. They embed reading-comprehension strategies that integrate the STEM subjects and English language arts through high-quality picture books. You’ll help your K–2 students engage in STEM activities while learning to read and reading to learn.

Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, K–2 draws on diverse and attention-grabbing books such as The Handiest Things in the World, The Day the Crayons Came Home, and I Wanna Iguana. The lessons will lead your students to ask questions and define problems; obtain, evaluate, and communicate information; and engage in argument from evidence. Along the way, students invent a handy backpack, design their own process for recycling crayons, and build a model habitat for an imaginary pet. Through these lessons and activities, all young students, including reluctant scientists and struggling readers, will quickly find themselves absorbed in STEM-related discovery.

Along with these new lessons come the easy-to-use features that have made Picture-Perfect a bestselling series for more than a dozen years:

• Fiction and nonfiction book pairs
• Background reading, materials lists, student pages, and assessments for each lesson
• Connections to science standards and the Common Core State Standards for both English language arts and mathematics.
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    Picture-Perfect STEM is a powerful tool for guiding instruction. You’ll love how effective this book is, and your students will love learning about STEM.

About this title

About the Author

Emily Morgan is the science leader for the High AIMS Consortium in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a former elementary science lab teacher at Mason City Schools in Mason, Ohio, and a seventh-grade science teacher at Northridge Local Schools in Dayton, Ohio. She has a bachelor of science in elementary education from Wright State University and a master of science in education from the University of Dayton. Emily lives in West Chester, Ohio, with her husband, son, dog, and two cats.Karen Ansberry is a teacher, writer, and nature lover. She has a Bachelor of Science in biology from Xavier University and a Master of Arts in teaching from Miami University. As the co-author of the Picture-Perfect STEM and Picture-Perfect Science series for elementary teachers, she provides professional development to help teachers learn to integrate STEM and reading. Before she was a writer, she worked at the Cincinnati Zoo and later taught elementary school for 20-plus years.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Science Teachers Association
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1681403285
• ISBN 13: 9781681403281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 345