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Connecting Content, Critical Thinking, and Creativity Through Trade BooksSteve RichChristine Anne Royce @bflyguy @caroyce
Today’s Goals
Investigate a series of activities that help to integrate
science and literacy skills that use trade books focused
on critical thinking, creativity, and developmentally
appropriate content.
Using Trade Books in the Classroom
The introduction of accurate trade books into the
elementary curriculum facilitates a connection with
content by providing background knowledge, the
introduction of new ideas and vocabulary as well as the
catalyst to motivate students to learn more about a topic of
study.
https://msu.edu/~stanawa8/Science%20and%20Children's%20Literature.htm
Examining Flight
What are all of the ways you can incorporate the idea
of flight or flying into your science classroom?
Turn to your neighbor and brainstorm
This is a sample text.
Insert your desired text here.
Sample text
What purpose do we read for?
Reading for the overall feeling that the story brings.
Connections to the larger picture and personal experiences.
Aesthetic Purposes
Reading for information, facts, and concepts.
Provides a source for developing student knowledge.
Efferent Purposes
Strategy: Making Connections
Text to Self
Text to Text
Text to World
Innovation Concept
Fictional story about a girl who
Goes outside and finds the
overwintering trees for Monarchs
Butterfly Tree
An informational text that tells the true
story of what happened when the
former First Lady of the United States
planted a butterfly garden at her home
Mrs. Carter’s Butterfly Garden
Bringing in Different Types of Literacy: Emotional and Visual
Students find a safe place to record their thoughts and feelings in
response to science readings and experiences..
Journaling
Additional tools and opportunities for learning when they use or create
drawings and diagrams that support text..
Drawings and Diagrams
“Good observers of visual images follow the same steps as fluent readers do.”
~Jo Anne Vasquez
Critical Thinking –
• Think about the message• Make mental images• Ask questions• Connecting to existing
knowledge• Reflect on your reaction• Determine key points.
Maps can enhance literature and support science learning
Activity: Use map of butterfly migration to translate into a smartphone app’s directions that would guide a butterfly through migration from the United States to Mexico.
Mapping the way for Monarch butterflies
Students start writing….
Step 1. Go to get tagged…..
Step 2. Fly due south for 120 miles to Florida state
line….
Step 3. (continued directions)
Labeled Drawings : Interactive Diagrams.
Fictional story that tells of Miss Maple
who looks for orphaned seeds to keep
warm until the next spring
Miss Maple’s Seeds
Next Time You See a Maple SeedFactual information about Maple Seeds
or Samaras; what they need to grow
and how they are dispersed.
Science Connection: Seed Dispersal by Wind
Seeds that fly or glide Seeds that drift in the wind Seeds that are released from their pods by the wind.
http://theseedsite.co.uk/sdwind.html
Literacy Connection – Mentor Texts & Text SetsMentor Texts Text Sets
A mentor text is any piece of writing that can be used to teach a writer about some aspect of writer’s craft.
A text set is a collection of related texts organized around a topic or line of inquiry. The line of inquiry of a given set is determined by an anchor text—a rich, complex grade-level text.
Mentor texts can take the form of any genre: picture book, excerpt from a chapter book, a magazine or newspaper article, an editorial, a cookbook, etc. Relatively short pieces of text work best.
Build student knowledge about a topic; meaningful connection to the anchor text.
Texts are authentic, rich, and worthy of study.
Idea: - create an original idea based on one from the text.Structure: writer tries to emulate using original ideas.Written Craft: the author’s writing style, ways with words, or sentence structure inspires the writer to try out these techniques.
Range of text types (literary and informational) and formats.
Text complexity levels support student achievement of the grade-level complexity demands of the CCSS*
Guide to Creating Text Sets -- www.ccsso.org/Documents
An Example Text Set to Support Seeds
An Example Text Set to Butterflies
An informational text presented in a fun,
interactive , pop-up book that to help young
readers look at the adaptations of various birds.
Birds of a Feather
Filled with poetry and sketches of birds that
make it live up to the subtitle “A birders
journal.
The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound
Drawings, Diagrams, and Photography can spark creativity.
A labeled drawing reinforces student learning.
Journal Activity for Creative Thinkers: integrate sketches and photogroups to make sences of science.
Think about these quotes ….
Animals in Flight
Use of observation to figure out how to
make gliders for wings. Trial and error.
How People Learned to Fly
Describes attributes of animals in
flights; types of wings, how they fly.
Literacy Connection: The Concept of Flight
Observe Wonder Learn
Know Want to Know Learned
Audience Investigation
https://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/roto-copter.html
Science Connection: The Concept of Flight
Know Want to Know
Learned Observe Wonder Learn
Balloon Rockets – Content, Critical Thinking, & Creativity
Design a Balloon Rocket That Will Fly the Farthest!
Using Children’s Literature in a LessonUsing Children’s Literature at
Various Points in the 5E Model
Engage Prior experiences with the Maple Leaf, Feather – Questions
Explore Paper Helicopters, Note taking, Books that pose additional Qs
Explain From investigation; student reporting out; go back and revisit “want column”;
Extend Try a different type of paper flyer; ask for examples of different things that fly such as seeds.
Evaluate Throughout the lesson; could ask them to write their own piece
Role of Connections in Meaningful Learning
• Prior knowledge is a major determinant of future learning
• In-depth understanding involves conceptually organizing knowledge which, in turn makes it accessible for later use.
• To be of value, curriculum must build cumulative knowledge used in future learning
When children put their hands on science and their minds in a book, they can go anywhere on Earth. In fact, they can fly throughout the Earth’s atmosphere and
beyond.
Contact Information
University of West Georgia
bflyguy@
Twitter: @bflyguy
Steve Rich
Shippensburg University (PA)
Twitter: @caroyce
Christine Anne Royce
University of West Georgia
Twitter: @bflyguy
Steve Rich
Shippensburg University (PA)
Twitter: @caroyce
Christine Anne Royce