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WRITING LIKE SCIENTISTS IF/THEN UNIT PLANNING

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WRITING LIKE SCIENTISTS IF/THEN UNIT PLANNING

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Written together February 2018

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Kindergarten - Writing Like Scientists - Based in the IF/THEN Book

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Epic!  Includes many resources for IF/THEN Unit

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Epic!  Includes many resources for IF/THEN Unit

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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nature anatomy: the curious parts and pieces of the natural world (julia rothman)

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earth sciences;study and teaching (middle school);pictorial works.

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art / subjects & themes / plants & animals

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art/subjects & themes - plants & animals

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Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World (Julia Rothman)

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See the world in a whole new way! Acclaimed illustrator Julia Rothman combines art and science in this exciting and educational guide to the structure, function, and personality of the natural world. Explore the anatomy of a jellyfish, the inside of a volcano, monarch butterfly migration, how sun...

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THE PRIVATE EYE - LOOKING/THINKING BY ANALOGY

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THE PRIVATE EYE - LOOKING/THINKING BY ANALOGY

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The Private Eye - jeweler's loupes and inquiry method for hands-on interdisciplinary science, art, writing, and math

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MARZANO! The Private Eye can increase student achievement by 45% -Introduced to the world of education in 1989 by Kerry Ruef. By far the best of its kind, the loupe is an almost magical, magnification tool. Along with The Private Eye process, the loupe is also a metaphor for magnifiying thought.

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From Teacher Cindy Kenney-Vance, from the TCRWP UNITS Facebook Group

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From Kindergarten Teacher Christie Wyman, this Padlet includes the resources recommended in the TC Kindergarten IF/THEN Unit of Study.

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Kindergarten: Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling, and Listing Like Scientists

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There is lots of information about this unit in the IF/THEN Kindergarten book of the UNITS OF STUDY.  And there is more here!  http://bit.ly/2scyzu8

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Here is a peek at how one teacher created class books iwth her students' scientist writing.

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This week, we started our new writing unit -- Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling and Listing Like Scientists. The kids love it. We have been working on looking closely at things in real life, observing things that happen in videos, and learning/writing about what we've read in books.

Is it bothering you that I used "you" in 2 and "my" instead of "your" in 4? It's bothering me.

We all make mistakes. Especially when we're not paying attention. :(

On Monday, I showed students a video of Cheetahs playing in the snow from the Cheetah Cam at Richmond Metro Zoo. You can check it out HERE. Children observed the cheetahs closely and drew exactly what they observed. Most students labeled the picture and wrote something to teach about their subject.

I like it when we all write about the same topic because then I can bind our work into a class book for the library!

On Tuesday, I brought in my rock collection from when I was a little girl. When I was in first grade, my teacher had some rocks in the classroom that I was obsessed with. Because I was such a good student (or so she said), she gave me the coolest rock I thought she had ... a perfectly oval, incredibly smooth gray rock. I loved it. And it led me to collect rocks every time I saw them... actually good ones from museum shops, ones my mom and dad brought back from their travels overseas (like one from the Dead Sea and a path in Azerbaijan) and ridiculously unimportant ones I picked up on the side of the road. (Which I justified because "they were shiny.") Anyway, I brought these rocks in and passed out one to each student. The common response was "Mrs. Richardson, I like your rocks!!!!"

Students got one rock each and a magnifying glass. We discussed how to draw what we saw and label interesting things we noticed.

My example. If you're concerned about the spelling, please see my post on phonetic spelling.

We drew, labeled and then listed some description words. After, we tried to use one of those words in a complete sentence.

I meet with students who have difficulty sounding out words on their own at the reading table. For them, it's more of a shared writing exercise with me sounding out the words and them matching the sounds to their letter charts. They tell me the description words or we brainstorm some together (i.e., Is your rock hard? Is it pretty? Is it big? What color is it?)

Writing Workshop isn't the only time for writing class books, though. We've done some as reading response activities in place of our Readers' Response journals. The example below was after we read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Mo Willems's Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs.

I just LOVE kindergarten writing. Young children are so creative and their capacity for writing changes so drastically in a year!

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This week, we started our new writing unit -- Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling and Listing Like Scientists. The kids love it. We have been working on looking closely at things in real life, observing things that happen in videos, and learning/writing about what we've read in books.