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To Look Closely
Science and Literacy in the Natural World
Whether it's a trickling stream, a grassy slope, or an abandoned rail line, the natural world offers teachers a wonderful resource around which to center creative, inquiry-based learning throughout the year. Nobody knows this better than veteran teacher Laurie Rubin. In To Look Closely: Science and Literacy in the Natural World, she demonstrates how nature study can help students become careful, intentional observers of all they see, growing into stronger readers, writers, mathematicians, and scientists in the process.
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Whether it's a trickling stream, a grassy slope, or an abandoned rail line, the natural world offers teachers a wonderful resource around which to center creative, inquiry-based learning throughout the year. Nobody knows this better than veteran teacher Laurie Rubin. In To Look Closely: Science and Literacy in the Natural World, she demonstrates how nature study can help students become careful, intentional observers of all they see, growing into stronger readers, writers, mathematic...read more
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Nature Study?
- Chapter 1: Ten Tips for Getting Started on Nature Study
- Chapter 2: Moments of Science
- Chapter 3: A Year at the Stream—Autumn
- Chapter 4: A Year at the Stream—Winter
- Chapter 5: A Year at the Stream—Spring
- Chapter 6: Literacy Through Nature Study—Reading
- Chapter 7: Literacy Through Nature Study—Writing
- Chapter 8: Creating Stewards of the Natural World
- Postscript
- Appendixes