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Insights: Grades 2-3 Lifting Heavy Things Student Science Notebook
As this module begins, students are asked to think about what it means to make work easier. They then try out experiences and challenges using levers, planes, and pulleys and explore the advantages and disadvantages of each.
At the end of the module, they are challenged to analyze a construction site that has no power and decide which simple machine is most appropriate for each task.
Writing is an integr
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Insights: Grade 6 Structures Student Science Notebook
In this module, students begin to develop an understanding of some of the basic principles that answer the question, "Why do structures stand up?" They look at structures in the school neighborhood, observing the variety in size, shape, material, and function. They build their own structures, using straws, index cards, and other materials.
As they build, students explore some of the basic concepts of standing structures. These include live load, dead load, tension and com
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Insights: Grades K-1 Living Things Teacher's Guide
This module builds on the natural curiosity and excitement young children have for the natural world around them. Throughout the module, they observe changes in a tree; examine the plants and animals living in and around the tree; and look at other living things nearby.
Children think about and discuss the many needs of plants and animals and the interdependence living things have on one another. Using these experiences, children build terrariums in the classroom.<
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Insights: Grade 6 There Is No Away Teacher's Guide
As our population increases, we generate more and more waste materials. In this module, students become aware of what happens to garbage when it is thrown away. They set up controlled experiments that yield information about what happens to organic and inorganic waste; what it means for something to be "biodegradable;" and advantages and disadvantages of various disposal systems.
Throughout the module students are frequently asked "Where is away?" They grow more and more
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Insights: Grades K-1 Myself & Others Teacher's Guide
Children look at themselves and their classmates and explore similarities and differences in such characteristics as height, eye color, and hand size. They become aware of how they are similar to those children they may see as different because of a physical characteristic (such as skin color) and how they are different from those children they may otherwise see as similar
This module helps to create a positive, supportive atmosphere in which children can realize and appr
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Insights: Grades 4-5 Reading The Environment Teacher's Guide
Change is all around us. In this module, students explore changes in the environment. Starting with their immediate surroundings, they ask three questions: "What was it like before?", "What changes have happened?", and "What changes will occur in the future?" They then look more closely at the processes of weathering and erosion and at rocks and fossils.
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Insights: Grades K-1 The Senses Teacher's Guide
Children are provided with a variety of experiences that encourage them to use all their senses to more closely observe and describe objects and phenomena around them.
They compare, sort, and classify objects by various properties. They compare their senses one to the other, raising questions of what it would be like to be unable to hear, see, taste, touch, and smell.
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Insights: Grade 6 Structures Teacher's Guide
In this module, students begin to develop an understanding of some of the basic principles that answer the question, "Why do structures stand up?" They look at structures in the school neighborhood, observing the variety in size, shape, material, and function. They build their own structures, using straws, index cards, and other materials.
As they build, students explore some of the basic concepts of standing structures. These include live load, dead load, tension and com
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MINDS ON PHYSICS: COMPLEX SYSTEMS, ACTIVITIES & READER
Not a traditional textbook - the Minds On Physics Student Activities Book is comprised of two parts: Activities and the Reader. The Activities form an integrated set of thoughtful engagements for students, and the Reader organizes and summarizes the ideas of the physics content and is meant to be read after students have engaged in associated activities.<
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Insights: Grades 4-5 Circuits And Pathways Student Science NotebookInsights: Grades 4-5 Circuits and Pathways Student Science Notebook
Students develop a basis for understanding electricity by exploring its properties in simple circuits. They start by sharing what they already know and what they would like to know about electricity. They are given an opportunity to use batteries, wire, bulbs, and motors to explore the concept of a complete circuit.
Writing is an integral part of learning science in the Insights curriculum, and a critical skill used by scientists. One of the most important tools of the sc