{"id":1582,"date":"2009-09-14T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1582"},"modified":"2009-09-14T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:27:05","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-its-probably-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/14\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-its-probably-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: It’s Probably Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s Probably Penny<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>written and\u00a0illustrated\u00a0by Loreen Leedy is a great book\u00a0on predictions and probability.<\/p>\n

Lisa is assigned homework on probability. She has to think of an event that will definitely happen, that might happen and that cannot happen over the weekend. She also has to think\u00a0of\u00a0two events; one that has a tiny chance of happening and one that is impossible and explain why they can or cannot happen. She has to write about an event that has three or more equally possible outcomes and an event that as several possible outcomes that are not equally likely.<\/p>\n

This book is a great introduction to probability. It can be used for Science Standard of Learning 3.1 (a) (c) and (j). It illustrates a student who plans and conducts investigations, makes predictions, observations and conclusions. The book\u00a0also touches Mathematics Standard of Learning 3.18. The student describes the concept of probability as chance and lists possible results of a given situation.<\/p>\n

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