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USING PICTUREBOOKS TO ENHANCE THIRD GRADE SCIENCE INSTRUCTION AND MEET THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

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Date Issued:
2013
Abstract/Description:
Teachers are constantly being asked to use innovative ways to teach core subjects, especially science. Teachers need to get students engaged and actively learning, at all times and that is not an easy task. The purpose of this project was to explore the use of quality children's literature in enhancing science instruction in the third grade curriculum while implementing and helping students meet the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (ELA CCSS). I researched how using children's literature in the science curriculum may be beneficial for students. I have created a handbook that third grade teachers can use as a resource to enhance their science curricula. This handbook breaks down the four bodies of knowledge (Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, and Nature of Science) and eleven big ideas for the third grade NGSSS. It includes titles and short descriptions of picturebooks that relate to those benchmarks. It also relates the third grade science benchmarks to the ELA CCSS through activities teachers can use to teach any given benchmark.
Title: USING PICTUREBOOKS TO ENHANCE THIRD GRADE SCIENCE INSTRUCTION AND MEET THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS.
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Name(s): Chippa, Onaiza, Author
Hoffman, Elizabeth, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2013
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: Teachers are constantly being asked to use innovative ways to teach core subjects, especially science. Teachers need to get students engaged and actively learning, at all times and that is not an easy task. The purpose of this project was to explore the use of quality children's literature in enhancing science instruction in the third grade curriculum while implementing and helping students meet the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (ELA CCSS). I researched how using children's literature in the science curriculum may be beneficial for students. I have created a handbook that third grade teachers can use as a resource to enhance their science curricula. This handbook breaks down the four bodies of knowledge (Life Science, Earth and Space Science, Physical Science, and Nature of Science) and eleven big ideas for the third grade NGSSS. It includes titles and short descriptions of picturebooks that relate to those benchmarks. It also relates the third grade science benchmarks to the ELA CCSS through activities teachers can use to teach any given benchmark.
Identifier: CFH0004520 (IID), ucf:45182 (fedora)
Note(s): 2013-12-01
B.S.
Education, School of Teaching, Learning and Leadership
Bachelors
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): picturebooks
children's literature
science
3rd grade
ELA CCSS
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004520
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UCF

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