{"id":2151,"date":"2010-01-13T15:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2151"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:54:46","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-cool-distance-assistants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/13\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-cool-distance-assistants\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children&#8217;s Literature:  Cool Distance Assistants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/image.png\" title=\"image.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/image.png\" title=\"image.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/image1.png\" title=\"image1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2010\/01\/image1.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"image1.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cool thing about science is that anyone can do it.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to be a scientist in a labratory to do science.\u00a0 You can do experiments with everyday things!&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cool-Gravity-Activities-Science-Projects\/dp\/1599289083\">Cool-Distance Assistants Fun Projects to Propel Things<\/a> ,written by James Hopwood, is a conglomerate of suggested science fair projects. Some of the examples of the projects shown are &#8220;Super-sling&#8221; and &#8220;Catapult In A Box.&#8221;\u00a0 The projects are very kid friendly with clear and easy to follow instructions.\u00a0 There is also a introductory chapter that explains the scientific method.\u00a0 Again, the wording used in this chapter would be easily understood by the students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book could be used to introduce the scientific method to students.\u00a0 It would also be very useful around the time of science fairs to provide them with suggestions. They could either use a project outlined in the book or use the examples to generate ideas of their own.\u00a0 It would teach them how to plan and conduct investigations and make conclusions (SOL 3.1.j).\u00a0 The book would be most appropriate for grade levels 3-5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencebuddies.org\/mentoring\/project_scientific_method.shtml\">A webpage<\/a> that provides more detail on the scientific method in kid friendly terms<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpop.com\/science\/scientificinquiry\/scientificmethod\/preview.weml\">Entertaining video\u00a0<\/a> created by brainpop for kids to watch on scientific method<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uga.edu\/srel\/kidsdoscience\/games\/sci-method-wordsearch.pdf\">Wordsearch\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a>containing scientific method terms<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cool-Gravity-Activities-Science-Projects\/dp\/1599289083\" title=\"Cool Distance Assistants\">Cool-Distance Assistants Fun Projects to Propel Things<\/a><strong><br \/>\nAuthor:<\/strong> James Hopwood<br \/>\n<strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Checkerboard Books<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 2007<br \/>\n<strong>Pages: <\/strong>32 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:<\/strong> 3-5<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN: <\/strong>1599289075<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The cool thing about science is that anyone can do it.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to be a scientist in a labratory to do science.\u00a0 You can do experiments with everyday things!&#8221;\u00a0 Cool-Distance Assistants Fun Projects to Propel Things ,written by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/13\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-cool-distance-assistants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-process-skills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}