VOCABULARY

• Science Vocabulary Activity Guides
• Biology Vocabulary

READING to LEARN SCIENCE

• Readers use strategies to figure out the main idea of a nonfiction passage
• Strengthen Nonfiction Reading/Learning\Writing
• Guides to Summarize Science Learning

• How to Summarize Nonfiction
• I Can Read and Write about Nonfiction
• I Can Classify and Summarize Information

Graphic Organizers to Analyze Science Content and/or

Assess Science Knowledge

• Scientists Classify
• Scientists Compare and Contrast
• Flow Charts:   3 Parts     6 Parts
  
• Get It Together: Show What's Important
• Knowledge Connector

Writing Guides--these guides can help students clarify what they learn and can be assessments when completed independently

• Guides to Writing about Science
• Exhibit Science Ideas
• Explain Ideas with Examples
  
• My Page About...

Activity Guides

• Science Connections Interview Guide
• Science Fair Guide
• Scientists Follow Rules for the Safe Science Lab
• Scientists Graph Changes
• Scientists Use the Scientific Method
• Ecology Activity Guides
• Chicago Plant Connections
  
• Technology Activity Guides
• Systems Activity Guides
• Discoveries Activity Guides
• k plus English / Spanish
• Make Your Own Multiple Choice Question

English/Spanish Physics Resources from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History

http://www.nmnaturalhistory.org/proyecto-futuro-educational-resources/physical-science-math

Science Careers

• Make a Career-Connected Science Guide--Chicago Workers Use Science!
  
  
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  Bell Student Explains Levers—Ms. Giradini
  
  

Bell students exhibit ideas: How can learning about the universe help us to better understand the earth and its future?

Jahn student illustrates a volcano.

 

Pilsen Science Exhibit: Rocks and Minerals

Bell Students exhibit ideas: How are the sun, moon and earth alike and different?

Bell Students exhibit ideas: What is the relationship among producers and consumers within a specific ecosystem's food chain?

Pilsen Student Explains the Water Cycle

Science illustration by a student at Sexton School.

Jahn School student pictorial glossaries with drawings that integrate the words:

Assessment Resources

• Extended Response Based on Content Learning English / Spanish
• Get It Together--Write English / Spanish
• Learning Reporter
• Meaningful Words English / Spanish
• My Important Learning English / Spanish
• My Pictures Show What I Know
• Word Bank English / Spanish
• Picture Word Bank English / Spanish
• Assess Content Learning

"I want to learn more about animals."

Student at Gray School

• Explore Examine Explain Science Poster
• Use Big Questions to Organize and Assess Science Learning
• Activities/Assessments to Develop Science Competence
• Departmentalized Weekly Planner Word / Word-Tab / PDF
• Example of a Departmentalized Science Plan
• Science/Literacy Learning Week Example Word / PDF
• Multi-Week Planner for Science or Social Studies Units Word / Word-Tab / PDF
• Template for Content Literacy Plan
• Your Content Planner Template Word / PDF
• Your Content Planner Template with Recommendations Word / PDF
• This Week's Reading-Thinking-Content Plan
• What is the Learning Report Connection?
• Science Planning Guide
• Reading and Drawing Science
• PQROST is a Clear Path to Goal 5 Progress
• Key Ideas for Teaching Elementary Science
• Content Assessments Grades 6-12
• Science Expo Center
• Technology: A School-Museum Connector
• Text to Text
• Learning Outline
• Expand Knowledge Science Guide
• How Far? Math/science career activity
• Online Teacher Planning Resources

• Student Science Poem Examples with Common Core Ratings
• Student Plants Learning Report Examples with Rubric

I chose the word 'knowledge' because we learned a lot."--4th Grader at Gray School