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Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, Honolulu, HI. – 1996
This set of six videotapes and a teacher's guide follows an interdisciplinary approach and integrates science, mathematics, and writing. The teacher's guide accompanies the videotapes. Six lessons include: (1) "Rotation Duration," which explores the time that it takes for the Moon to go around the Earth and studies the common Moon…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, VA. Langley Research Center. – 2003
NASA CONNECT is a research and standards-based annual series of integrated mathematics, science, and technology instructional distance learning programs for students in grades 6-8. This program has three components: (1) a 30-minute television broadcast which can be viewed live or taped for later use; (2) a companion educator's guide including a…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Data Analysis, Earth Science, Foreign Countries
Wright, Russell G. – 1996
This book is designed for middle school earth science or general science teachers to help their students learn scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event- based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork,…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Earth Science, Group Activities, Hands on Science
Wright, Russell G. – 1996
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn about earthquakes and scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event- based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Earthquakes, Group Activities, Hands on Science
Wright, Russell G. – 1997
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event-based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork, independent research,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Group Activities, Hands on Science, Inquiry
Wright, Russell G. – 2001
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event-based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork, independent research,…
Descriptors: Animals, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Group Activities
Wright, Russell G. – 1996
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn about problems with floods and scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event-based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Education, Floods, Group Activities
Wright, Russell G. – 1997
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn about problems with tornadoes and scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event-based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Education, Group Activities, Hands on Science
Wright, Russell G. – 1995
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn about problems with hurricanes and scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event-based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Education, Group Activities, Hands on Science
Wright, Russell G. – 1995
This book is designed for middle school earth science or general science teachers to help their students learn scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event- based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork,…
Descriptors: Biology, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Group Activities
Wright, Russell G. – 2001
This book is designed for middle school earth science or physical science teachers to help their students learn scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event- based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Electricity, Group Activities, Hands on Science
Wright, Russell G. – 1996
This book is designed for middle school earth science teachers to help their students learn about problems with toxic leaking and scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event-based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Education, Groundwater, Group Activities
Wright, Russell G. – 1997
This book is designed for middle school earth science or general science teachers to help their students learn scientific literacy through event-based science. Unlike traditional curricula, the event- based earth science module is a student-centered, interdisciplinary, inquiry-oriented program that emphasizes cooperative learning, teamwork,…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Geology, Group Activities, Hands on Science
Download full textRainey, Larry; Mitrook, Kim – 1996
This program, supported by the Center for Communication and Educational Technology at the University of Alabama, incorporates the perspectives of biology, earth/space science, chemistry, and physics into an innovative science curriculum for the middle grades. Students are engaged for 20 minutes 3 times a week by an on-air instructor who is doing…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Earth Science, Educational Innovation, Electronic Mail
