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The Scientific Method: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Scientific Method 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 The Scientific Method - 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 Scientific Method - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: 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 book:
Scientific Method: Reading Informational Text
In the Past: Main Idea
Steps In the Method: Ordering Events
Asking Questions: Concepts & Processes
Questions: Broad & Specific: Classifying Information
Research: Reading Informational Text
Gathering Knowledge: Research & Writing
Construct a Hypothesis: Reading Informational Text
Galileo s Experiment: Experiment Analysis
Scientific Method Chart: Graphic Organizer G
Use Your Senses: Applying Concepts G
Quality vs. Quantity: Compare & Contrast
Standard Measurements: Vocabulary G
The Slime Experiment: Problem-Solution-Results GO9
Experiment: Variables & Controls: Concepts & Processes G
Sound and Pitch: Experiment Analysis
An Inventive Experiment: Primary Source Analysis
Tools of a Scientist: Applying Concepts G
Sharing Your Opinion: Writing Activity
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