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Emily Morgan; Karen Ansberry – NSTA Press, 2023
There's a lot to love about this newly expanded book in the Picture-Perfect Science series: You can combine STEM and reading through appealing lessons that are just right for your second-grade students. Also, reading comprehension strategies are embedded in all 12 of the ready-to-teach lessons, 11 of which are updated and one brand-new. The goal…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Childrens Literature, Scientists, Scientific Literacy
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Song, Young Imm Kang – Educational Leadership, 2011
Like teachers in many countries with a national curriculum and standardized testing, South Korean teachers find it challenging to include in their curriculums knowledge students will need in the future that doesn't fall within the purview of tested areas. The arts education, character education, environmental education, geography, and education…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Environmental Education, Korean Culture, Foreign Countries
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Stonier, Francis W. – Young Children, 2009
Stonier, a second grade inclusion teacher, wanted to instill a love of writing in all 25 of the children in his class while offering a challenging curriculum for everyone. He made the children's writing meaningful by setting up a writing exchange with high school students. The project, beginning with the second-graders offering critiques of the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Childrens Writing, Grade 2, Reading Materials
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Rogers, Linda K. – Reading Teacher, 2003
Discusses the "Report in a Can" research process that focuses on the successful gathering of data, and outlines its four major steps. Argues for engaging primary students in well-planned research assignments. Describes how to create a "Report in a Can." (SG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 2, Instructional Innovation, Primary Education
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Miller, Frank – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2000
Describes a biography writing project in which second- and fifth-grade students interview each other and write biographical sketches. Explains that this project helps to develop students' reading and writing skills, uses cross-age mentoring, and introduces students to biographical research and writing. Includes a list of ten biographies for…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Grade 2
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes two activities in a second-grade class that use drawing and writing to explore fractions. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions
Hinshaw, Craig – Arts & Activities, 2001
Describes an art lesson that focuses on developing second-grade students' basic computer drawing skills. Explains that the students created a picture using shapes and copied their artworks onto the computer using a stylus. States that the students also wrote a story to accompany their computer pictures. (CMK)
Descriptors: Art Education, Childrens Art, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies