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Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons, 3-5: Using Children’s Books to Inspire STEM Learning
"Teachers in our district have been fans of Picture-Perfect Science for years, and it’ s made a huge impact on how they fit science into their school day. We are so excited to do more of the same with these Picture-Perfect STEM books!"
— Chris Gibler , elementary instructional coach, Blue Springs School District in Missouri
"This lively mix of picture books and engaging, standards-based STEM content will be a powerful tool to inspire STEM learning."
— Andrea Beaty , author of Ada Twist, Scientist; Rosie Revere, Engineer; and Iggy Peck, Architect
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 3– 5 students engage in STEM activities while learning to read and reading to learn.
This volume of Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons for the upper-elementary grades uses a remarkable variety of books to teach STEM concepts and reading comprehension strategies. For example, you can pique students’ interest with The Inventor’ s Secret ; An Ambush of Tigers ; and Trash to A Kid’ s Upcycling Guide to Trash . Then, through the accompanying lessons, you can teach ways to plan and carry out investigations; analyze and interpret data; and construct explanations and design solutions. Along the way, your students will invent toy cars, learn how scientists use technology to track individual animals within larger groups, figure out how to reduce plastic pollution, and tackle other real-world projects. Engaging fiction and nonfiction books plus 15 hands-on lessons add up to perfect ways to learn about the interdependence of the STEM areas.
Along with these new lessons come the easy-to-use features that have made Picture-Perfect a bestselling series for more than a dozen
- 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.
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.
— Chris Gibler , elementary instructional coach, Blue Springs School District in Missouri
"This lively mix of picture books and engaging, standards-based STEM content will be a powerful tool to inspire STEM learning."
— Andrea Beaty , author of Ada Twist, Scientist; Rosie Revere, Engineer; and Iggy Peck, Architect
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 3– 5 students engage in STEM activities while learning to read and reading to learn.
This volume of Picture-Perfect STEM Lessons for the upper-elementary grades uses a remarkable variety of books to teach STEM concepts and reading comprehension strategies. For example, you can pique students’ interest with The Inventor’ s Secret ; An Ambush of Tigers ; and Trash to A Kid’ s Upcycling Guide to Trash . Then, through the accompanying lessons, you can teach ways to plan and carry out investigations; analyze and interpret data; and construct explanations and design solutions. Along the way, your students will invent toy cars, learn how scientists use technology to track individual animals within larger groups, figure out how to reduce plastic pollution, and tackle other real-world projects. Engaging fiction and nonfiction books plus 15 hands-on lessons add up to perfect ways to learn about the interdependence of the STEM areas.
Along with these new lessons come the easy-to-use features that have made Picture-Perfect a bestselling series for more than a dozen
- 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.
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.
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345 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2017
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August 8, 2019
This book has all the tools classroom teachers need to add cross-curricular science and literature into their curriculum. Interweaving the Common Core State Standards for Science and English Language Arts as well as the 5E Model from the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study of engage, explore, explain, elaborate, (discuss) and evaluate. After laying this groundwork in the first 59 pages of the book, the reader gets fifteen in-depth lessons based on pairs of fiction and non-fiction picture books to explore a range of content in the sciences. Each lesson has standards delineated upfront, pacing guide for the daily time allotment, content narrative and background information for the educator, materials list, read aloud/think aloud scripting complete with suggested questions, home connections, read more bibliography and Internet tie-ins. Each lesson plan also includes several pages of blackline masters that are the goldmine of this book.
In ten years the book will be dated, but for now this is the best resource on the market for integrating science and literature. The NSTApress is the publishing arm of the National Science Teachers Association, the professional organization of science educators. Don't miss the companion book laid out identically by the same authors, Picture-Perfect STEM Lesson, K-2. Creative educators will likely be able to modify lessons from both books to use in other grade levels. Multi-page index assists in the usefulness of this book.
In ten years the book will be dated, but for now this is the best resource on the market for integrating science and literature. The NSTApress is the publishing arm of the National Science Teachers Association, the professional organization of science educators. Don't miss the companion book laid out identically by the same authors, Picture-Perfect STEM Lesson, K-2. Creative educators will likely be able to modify lessons from both books to use in other grade levels. Multi-page index assists in the usefulness of this book.
May 8, 2023
I skimmed this text as part of my coursework for my graduate level STEM and STEAM course. I found it to be a wonderful resource, as it presents lessons that are already fully developed centered around an engineering design challenge and the 5Es. What it does that's extra special, though is include children's literature as part of each and every lesson. This gives the teacher a beautiful plan for integrating STEM and ELA together using this resource. The book was clearly laid out in an easily readable format. It includes all handouts mentioned in the lessons. It is a wonderful resources for elementary teaches to bring engaging STEM lessons into their classrooms with a lot of the prep work already done for them. I highly recommend this resource to all elementary educators.
June 14, 2018
An excellent resource book jam-packed with well-designed lessons to integrate STEM into your 3-5 classroom using high-quality children's literature and nonfiction. Aligned to the 5 E's and NGSS Standards as well as Common Core. Emily and Karen are experts in their field and have created many exemplary resources for teachers. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
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