Scientific Method

Common Core

by Carole Marsh

How to Use the The Scientific Method - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!


Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Scientific Method - Common Core Lessons and Activities Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for The Scientific Method - Common Core Lessons and Activities
Scientific Reading Informational Text
In the Main Idea
Steps In the Ordering Events
Asking Concepts & Processes
Broad & Classifying Information
Reading Informational Text
Gathering Research & Writing
Construct a Reading Informational Text
Galileo s Experiment Analysis
Scientific Method Graphic Organizer G
Use Your Applying Concepts G
Quality vs. Compare & Contrast
Standard Vocabulary G
The Slime Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Variables & Concepts & Processes G
Sound and Experiment Analysis
An Inventive Primary Source Analysis
Tools of a Applying Concepts G
Sharing Your Writing Activity
Common Core Correlations

Includes Graphic Organizers

24 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2013

About the author

Carole Marsh is a children's author and the founder of Gallopade International, a children’s book publishing company headquartered in Peachtree City, GA. Marsh writes mystery fiction in addition to works of non-fiction for children. Initially she self-published under the imprint Gallopade Publishing Group, which she founded in 1979; today Gallopade International is a major small publisher based in Peachtree City, Georgia.

In 2007 Marsh received the Georgia Author of the Year award for her contributions to children's literature and to the state of Georgia over the past twenty-seven years.