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Budding botanists : a science unit for high-ability learners in grades 1-2
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Provides first through second-grade teachers with thirteen field-tested lessons to explore botany using an inquiry-based approach.
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- Creator
- co-principal investigators, Bruce A. Bracken & Joyce VanTassel-Baska
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- Budding botanists : a life science unit for high-ability learners in grades 1-2
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- English
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- Williamsburg, VA : The College of William and Mary, School of Education, Center for Gifted Education ; Waco, TX : Prufrock Press, [2010]
- ©2010
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- v, 139 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 1593633866, 9781593633868
- OCLC
- ocn505428215
- "Project Clarion science unit for primary grades funded by the Jacob K. Javits Program, United States Department of Education."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction to the Clarion units -- Teacher's guide to the content -- Unit glossary -- Teaching resources -- Lesson plans -- Overview of lessons -- Preassessment -- Lesson 1. What is a scientist? -- Lesson 2. What is a system? -- Lesson 3. Terrariums as systems -- Lesson 4. What scientists do : observe, question, learn more -- Lesson 5. What scientists do : experiment, create meaning, tell others -- Lesson 6. A real-world problem to solve! -- Lesson 7. Animal, vegetable, or mineral : what is it? -- Lesson 8. Close up : using a microscope -- Lesson 9. Just a little seed -- Lesson 10. Plant experimentation on basic needs -- Lesson 11. Follow-up to plant experiments -- Lesson 12. Independent and small-group investigation -- Lesson 13. Wrap it up! -- Postassessment -- Appendix A. Concept paper on systems -- Appendix B. Teaching models -- Appendix C. Basic concepts in early childhood -- References