Monday, June 30, 2008

New Professional Resources

Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to Guide Inquiry, 3-6 - Karen Ansberry
Provides fifteen lesson plans that incorporate picture books into the science curriculum.

Pre-K - Grade 2: Mathematics Assessment Sampler
- NCTM
This sampler presents assessment tasks that are appropriate for use with students from age 4 through age 8. The book provides teachers of primary grades mathematics with examples of assessment tasks that reflect the various ways assessments can be used prior to, during, and following mathematics instruction. Teachers can then consider the potential of these tasks to uncover the mathematical understandings of their students for the purpose of planning further instruction. Each task can be altered by changing the context, breaking the task into subparts, limiting the scope or complexity of the task, or extending the task to provide more challenge or enhance the depth of understanding being assessed.

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