Beaks and Biomes: Integrating Science and Literacy

Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. The series is sponsored by Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an NSF-funded project that provides professional development and instructional resources to elementary teachers.

This life science unit uses scientific inquiry, literacy instruction, and a multigenre text set to examine adaptations, migration, and ecosystems. Leave with a unit framework you can directly incorporate into your classroom! Note: This session builds on concepts presented in our first two seminars: Informational Text and Multigenre Text Sets and Inquiry, Literacy, and the Learning Cycle. You'll get the most out of the session if you've participated in the previous seminars, or viewed the archives.

All information for attending this session and links to previous webinars can be found here: http://wiki.nsdl.org/index.php/BeyondPenguins/Seminars.