Skill-Building Science, Grades 5 - 6: Standards-Based Activities in Physical, Life, and Earth Science

Jennifer Linrud Sinsel

Dec 2006 · Carson-Dellosa Publishing

About this ebook

Hands-on investigations give scientists in grades 5–6 the skills they need for success! Skill-Building Science includes lessons, activities, and writing exercises on physical science, earth science, and life science. Biographies of scientists with accompanying activities increase student awareness of scientist as an occupation. This 128-page book includes reproducibles, aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards, and supports National Science Education Standards.

About the author

Jennifer Linrud Sinsel teaches middle school science at Wichita Collegiate Middle School in Wichita, Kansas. She received a bachelor of science degree in earth science education and a master’s of science degree in space studies from the University of North Dakota. She is working on her second master’s degree in gifted education. She is involved with NASA’s Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers (NEAT) and was a 2004 finalist for the NASA Educator Astronaut Program. She is also the project coordinator for a science inquiry grant through Wichita State University, which helps improve content knowledge and provides inquiry-based lesson plans to new teachers. In her spare time, she skydives, reads science fiction, and spends time with her adventurous husband and their two daughters