ERIC Number: ED220309
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977
Pages: 227
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-89292-011-4
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Growing Plants - USMES Teacher Resource Book. Second Edition. Trial Edition.
Brady, L. Ray, Jr.; Keskulla, Jean
This Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) unit challenges students to grow plants and to determine some purpose for their use (transplanting, selling, gifts). The challenge is general enough to apply to many problem-solving situations in mathematics, science, social science, and language arts at any elementary school level (grades 1-8). The Teacher Resource Book for the unit is divided into five sections. Section I describes the USMES approach to student-initiated investigations of real problems, including a discussion of the nature of USMES "challenges." Section II provides an overview of possible student activities with comments on prerequisite skills, instructional strategies, suggestions when using the unit with primary grades, flow charts illustrating how investigations evolve from students' discussions of an advertising problem, and a hypothetical account of intermediate-level class activities. Section III provides documented events of actual class activities from grades 2/3, 5, and 6. Section IV includes lists of "How To" cards and background papers, bibliography of non-USMES materials, and a glossary. Section V consists of charts identifying skills, concepts, processes, and areas of study learned as students become involved with investigations. (JN)
Descriptors: Botany, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Horticulture, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts, Learning Activities, Mathematics Education, Plant Growth, Plant Propagation, Problem Solving, Process Education, Resource Materials, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Education, Social Studies, Teaching Guides, Teaching Methods, Unified Studies Curriculum
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Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Unified Science and Mathematics for Elementary Schools, Newton, MA.; Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA.
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