Stepping up to Science and Math : Exploring the Natural Connections

Stepping Up to Science and Math invites you to step back and rethink the way you teach both of these essential subjects. Then it illustrates how you can step up the pace with Standards-based activities that make learning more effective and efficient. (You can even step outside the oridnary with new lessons featuring gummy worms, school buses, or the planet Mars.) Compiled from Science and Children, NSTA's award-winning elementary school journal, Stepping Up gathers 21 articles that provide interdisciplinary options for linking inquiry-based activities to mathematics as well as other K - 6 curriculum areas, such as language arts and social studies.

The book is organized into three broad content areas based on subject matter or skills:

1) Making connections among the basic process skills, such as linear measurement, data collection, estimation, and graphing, that underpin both science and math. Chapter titles include "Say Yes to Metric," "Gummy Worms Measurement," and "Weighing Dinosaurs."

2) Using scientific concepts as the core for authentic investigations that link to other disciplines. Titles cover "Crossing the Curriculum with Frogs," "Real Earthquakes, Real Learning," and "Mission to Mars."

3) Finding contemporary applications for scientific inquiry and experimentation to develop more advanced integrated process skills. Among the titles: "The Scoop on Science Data," "Thinking Engineering," and "Building Structures."