Title: Earth Science
Description: Reading Science
The authors of Scott, Foresman Earth Science wrote this text with your students in mind. The editors carefully monitored the following text factors that can affect your students' reading comprehension. *Action verbs* appear in most sentences and titles. The regular use of active voice clarifies cause-effect and problem-solution explanations. *Illustrations and text* develop main ideas simultaneously. Paragraphs direct your students to features in the illustrations. *Essential scientific vocabulary* are defined and interwoven with concrete examples.
*Scott, Foresman Earth Science* continues to be a leading text in its efforts to balance a respect for the language of science with a respect for your students' interests, academic needs, and comprehension abilities.
• Activate Background
Each unit's *Technology in Perspective* highlights advancements related to the unit concepts over the course of history.
. Set Purposes for Reading
Organizing Your Study Skills contains a list of each chapter's section titles and pertinent questions relating to the objectives. Show your students how to use this structured overview to predict and find connections among the sections. Objectives appear at the beginning of each section.
Planning the Course
Assess While Reading
Section Review questions follow each section and are keyed to the section's objectives. They ensure accurate comprehension of scientific vocabulary and knowledge. *The Challenge!* questions are designed to encourage critical thinking and problem-solving while reading.
Evaluate After Reading
Encourage your students to paraphrase and raise questions about the main ideas listed under each of the section titles in the Summary. Model how to group and define the section's key words listed alphabetically under Vocabulary. The Check Your Knowledge feature includes a matching activity reversed from the normal style for higher student achievement. The other two assessment activities involve completing sentences with helpful context clues
Reflect After Reading
*Check Your Understanding* and *Apply Your Knowledge* features contain questions that challenge your students to make connections among the sections.
Apply After Reading
The end-of-section Activities contain carefully-written directions for refining your students' understanding. End-of-chapter features include a Science Skills that refines students' techniques.
*Scott, Foresman Earth Science* provides comprehensive coverage of the earth sciences. Content is presented in a flexible format that can be adapted to meet the needs of both you and your students. The following Planning Guide has been provided to assist you in customizing the text to provide the best earth science course for your students.
Scott, Foresman Earth Science may be used in a full-year course as well as in a one-semester course. It is assumed that a full-year course consists of 180 classroom periods of approximately 45 minutes each. Similarly, it is assumed that a one-semester course would consist of 90 classroom periods. Within each chapter there are certain sections that are of primary importance in developing major concepts. It is recommended that a one-semester course concentrate on these sections. A full-year course should include these sections of primary importance as well as the remaining sections as time will allow.
The Planning Guide is only a suggested pacing chart to help you complete your goals for a one-semester course or for the full school year. It should be used only in relation to the interest and ability levels of your students, available materials, and the time you have for instruction. The time you devote to any of the topics can always be extended and enriched by using suggestions in the Teacher's Annotated Edition as well as with the materials provided in the Teacher's Resource Book, Study and Review Guide, and Laboratory Manual.
The Teacher's resource Book provides masters for:
Problem solving to help develop thinking skills.
Enrichment to extend and enhance importance science concepts.
Dr. Robert A. Pavlik
Chairperson, Reading/Language Arts Department
Cardinal Stritch College
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Subjects: Geography, Earth science, textbook, geografía, geology, geología