Science Curriculum

2004-2005

Academic Skills


*   Topics   

                                    Invertebrates

                                    Dinosaurs

                                   

                    *    Science Textbook Table of Contents and Sources

As I did with Map Reading and Geography, I created a science textbook. Each textbook was simply a three-ring binder using dividers for chapter headings. Integrated into each topic were the following language arts exercises.

Comprehension Questions 

                                         Outlining text and oral presentation from outlines

                                         Writing summaries

                                         Compare and contrast activities (Venn diagrams)

                                         Outlining in preparation for writing

                                         Writing guided research papers

                                         Spelling and Vocabulary Exercises for content words


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Captioned Media Program

   *        Tell Me Why

This was a fairly old book (1968) that I think I found at a resale shop (or it might have been Eric’s dad’s). This particular book is out of print but there are a lot of similar titles available. It was one of those question and answer books for children. We let Scott pick a topic from the table of contents and read one question and answer each day. Eric enjoyed picking out a topic every day and it gave us some ideas of what topics interested him.

Academic Skills