Overview  Project Goals  QuickPlans  All In The Balance  Balancing Act  Bat Echoes  Beachcomber  All QuickPlans...  Training Sessions  2001 Madrid  2002 Rome  News  Sci-Lit Connector  Q & A  Questions & Answers  Interact  Create A QuickPlan  Contact Ken Mechling  Contact Amy Mechling  Contact Cheri Keys		1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Sci-Lit Connector Linking Looking??? Looking for ways to link science with children's literature? Your language arts series is a really good place to start. Our review of the five most widely used language arts textbooks series now used in K-6 schools shows that 40 % to 60 % of the stories can be connected to science experiences in the classroom. Following is just a sample of the stories found in Harcourt's Trophies-a series with close to 60 % of the stories having potential for literature-science linking relationships. Grade Story Science Activity 1 Fun with Fish I Am a Butterfly How to Be a Nature Detective Swimmy Metamorphosis Fingerprints 2 The Mixed-Up Chameleon The Seed Max Found Two Sticks Food Chain Seeds Sound 3 Turtle Bay Centerfield Ball Hawk Starry, Starry Night Shore Life ReactionTime Constellations 4 Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride The Baker’s Neighbor Fly Traps: Plants that Bite Back Airplanes Smell Vials L. G. Monsters 5 Smoke Jumpers Pandora’s Box Dear Mr. Henshaw Parachutes Mystery Boxes Electricity 6 Girls Think of Everything Dive The Case of the Shining Blue Planet Inventions Down Deep Rockets A first grade class reading "How to Become a Nature Detective" can make, observe, and classify their own fingerprints. A third grade class reading "Starry, Starry Night" can make constellation models of the Big Dipper, Draco, Cepheus, and others. A fifth grade class reading "Summer of Fire" and "Smoke Jumpers" can construct and test parachutes. In linked literature-science lessons (many examples can be found in the QuickPlans on this web site, www.scilitlinks.org ), science provides the concrete experiences to help children make sense of the language arts experiences. They read with understanding, they write from experience, and they exhibit better thinking skills. Look for links! Sci-Lit Connector - Page 13 - Linking Science with Children's Literature K-6 ->		QuickPlans  Training  Sessions  News  Questions &  Answers