SCIE130
Fostering Collaboration, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Science (Grades 5-8)
Subject(s): Science, Technology Integration , Instructional Strategies
Grade(s): 3-5 , 6-8
Producer: Tom Snyder Productions
Description: Fostering Collaboration, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Science (Grades 5-8)

Integrate technology in the classroom to encourage students to ask questions, collaborate with others, and explore and evaluate data. Review proven critical-thinking and cooperative-learning strategies to bring science to life for your students. Become acquainted with software and Web activities designed to help your students organize and consolidate their thinking, communicate their ideas clearly, and analyze and evaluate the ideas of others.

Classroom Link-Access to students recommended. PBS Classroom Link courses ask learners to implement lessons with their class or with a small group of students (options for learners without access to students are available.

SCIE125
Fostering Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Science (Grades 1-4)
Subject(s): Science , Technology Integration , Instructional Strategies
Grade(s): K-2 , 3-5
Producer: Tom Snyder Productions
Description:Fostering Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Science (Grades 1-4)

Create lessons and activities that incorporate collaboration, inquiry, and critical thinking while addressing national science standards. Help your students organize their thinking, communicate clearly, and analyze ideas.

Classroom Link-Access to students recommended. PBS Classroom Link courses ask learners to implement lessons with their class or with a small group of students (options for learners without access to students are available.

SCIE120
Scientific Inquiry and Field Work: Discovering with Technology for Grades 6-8
Subject(s): Science , Technology Integration , Instructional Strategies
Grade(s): 6-8
Producer: Indiana University
Description: Scientific Inquiry and Field Work: Discovering with Technology for Grades 6-8

Create a lesson for an online field trip that incorporates current technology. Visit websites that enable students to collect and analyze data, using online equipment. Focus on an ecosystem that’s appropriate for your middle school students. Learn high-tech strategies that allow them to record and analyze information, investigate the results, and share their findings. As a final task, design a unit plan for an ecosystem field trip that incorporates current technologies for gathering, analyzing, and sharing data.

RDLA130
Teaching Reading in Science
Subject(s): Reading/Language Arts, Science
Grade(s): 3-5 , 6-8 , 9-12
Producer: McREL
Description:Teaching Reading in Science

Give your students the right reading skills and they will be better prepared to understand their science textbooks. Explore strategies for training students to read science texts in new ways, thus expanding their reading comprehension and understanding of science content. Discuss effective strategies to help your students organize ideas, understand text organization, set goals for reading, make meaningful connections, and persevere through challenging reading materials.
[Cross-listed with Reading/Language Arts]

RDLA225
Teaching Writing in Science (Grades 6-12)
Subject(s): Reading/Language Arts, Science
Grade(s): 6-8, 9-12
Producer: McREL
Description:
Teaching Writing in Science (Grades 6-12)

Examine how writing fits into your science curriculum and learn new instructional strategies for your students. Explore writing strategies that deepen students’ understanding of science, and help you better assess that understanding. Help your students engage in persuasive writing tasks, and develop an instructional plan over the length of the course for using writing effectively in your classroom. Put your plan into action and draw conclusions from the experience.
[Cross-listed with Reading/Language Arts]

RDLA220
Teaching Writing in the Content Areas (Grades 6-12)
Subject(s): Mathematics, Reading/Language Arts , Science
Grade(s): 6-8 , 9-12
Producer: McREL
Description: Teaching Writing in the Content Areas (Grades 6-12)

Review the research basis for incorporating writing instruction across the curriculum; address the issue of finding the time to write; evaluate writing assessments; study readily adopted practices to promote writing in your classroom; and, finally, develop a plan to bring writing into your classroom, regardless of the content area. [Cross-listed with Reading/Language Arts}