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States of Matter: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The States of Matter Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the States of Matter - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
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!

Tips:
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 States of Matter - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities

Here is the Table of Contents for the States of Matter - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What s the Matter?: Reading Informational Text
States of Matter: Classifying Information G
Matter s Building Blocks: Applying Concepts
Molecules Matter: Reading Informational Text
Feel the Heat: Concepts & Processes G
Solid State: Reading Informational Text
Liquids: Wet & Wild: Concepts & Processes
It s a Gas!: Reading Informational Text
Plasma: Classifying Information GO1
Wonderful Water: Applying Concepts
Changing States of Matter: Experiment
BEC: Writing
States of Matter: Compare & Contrast GO1 GO2
Mix Things Up: Reading Informational Text
Find the Solution: Inference
Compounds: Research
Mixture or Compound?: Experiment
Scientists Who Matter: Point of View
States of Matter: Vocabulary G
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)