Seeds of Science, Roots of Reading
Teaching is a challenging profession. Teachers wear many hats as they try to not only help their students learn the content, but also work with them to develop all the other skills they’ll need to be successful in the future. In this section, we’ll share some of our top tips for teachers to help them offer the best possible instruction for their students, while also juggling all of the other demands of the job including managing a classroom, forming connections with students, collaborating with colleagues, and communicating with parents.
The Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading units are based on three guiding principles: 1. Engage students in firsthand and secondhand investigations to make sense of the natural world. Firsthand investigations involve students in making observations, conducting tests and experiments, modeling scientific phenomena, gathering data, and searching for evidence. Secondhand investigations involve students in making sense of investigations … Read more
Strategy Guides highlight some of the most powerful instructional strategies from the Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading integrated curriculum. Each Strategy Guide provides a description of one of these strategies, an overview of how to teach the strategy with many science texts, and a specific plan for teaching the strategy with a Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading book. … Read more
Whether you’re a veteran teacher, finishing up your student teaching and ready to graduate, or just starting to look into the teaching profession, you may be trying to decide whether online learning and teaching or classroom learning and teaching is right for you. Choosing between the two teaching options can be quite challenging. Until just … Read more