April/May 2007 Illustrated Table of Contents

Science&Children
NSTA's peer-reviewed journal for elementary teachers
April 2007
Volume 44, Number 8
This issue's focus: Environmental Education

FEATURES

Grades 4–6
21 A WebQuest for Spatial Skills (free!)
Fourth-grade students create habitat maps through a custom-designed WebQuest and gain spatial understanding.
Pamela L. Wood, Ian J. Quitadamo, James L. DePaepe, and Ian Loverro

Grades 2–6
26 A Natural Integration
Student-created field guides seamlessly combine science and writing.
Tracy Coskie, Michelle Hornof, and Heidi Trudel

Grades 3–5
32 Trash or Treasure?
Third- to fifth-grade students develop reading and creative-thinking skills as they ponder how trash can affect animals and their habitats.
Donna Kowalczyk

Grades 4–6
37 Plants and Pollution
Fifth graders learn about human impact on the environment through a plant-inquiry experience.
Eric Brunsell and J. William Hug

Grades K–6
42 Environmental Education Saves the Day
Becoming a Project Learning Tree (PLT)–certified school unified faculty, boosted student achievement, and saved one school from closure.
Sarah Haines and Cynthia Kilpatrick

Grades K–2
48 Firsthand Nature
A classroom environment that encourages direct observation of nature helps develop young students’
scientific literacy.
Moses Gostev and Francesca Michaelides Weiss

TEACHER RESOURCES

8 In the News (print only)

14 Teaching Through Trade Books
Into the Woods

18 The Early Years
Collards and Caterpillars

52 Methods and Strategies
The Teaching-With-Analogies Model

56 Science Shorts
Ecosystem in a Jar

60 Science 101
How does photosynthesis work?

65 Finds & Sites (print only)

66 Perspectives
Making Time for Science Talk

68 NSTA Recommends

Plus a special insert from NSTA! (print only)
An excerpt from Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2, by Page Keeley, Francis Eberle, and Joyce Tugel on p. 7.

IN EVERY ISSUE

6 Editor’s Note (free!)

7 Letters

74 Advertisers Index (print only)

75 Every Day Science Calendar
April

76 Every Day Science Calendar
May

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