Collaborative Teaching In The Middle Grades

This book allows you to team teach with a science specialist to drive home key library and media curriculum goals. Eight detailed chapters provide background and complete lesson plans that cover both library and general science skills and benchmarks. Included are reproducible student worksheets, tools for assessment, and a suggested resource list. Grades 6-8

Introduction
Alike or Different? Classification of Organisms
Show Dog or Show Dud? A Look at Genetic Inheritance
Sewers and Quarantines--Public Health at Work
Do Diets Work? Nutrition, Exercise and Metabolism
What Causes Milk to Spoil? Microorganisms at Work
The Disappearing Rainforest: The Effects of Human Action on the Environment
Visiting Pompeii and San Francisco--The Effects of Geologic Processes on Human Populations
Looking at Light--An Investigation into the Composition of Sunlight and Human Vision