Spring has arrived, and what better time to shift the learning outdoors and take advantage of the living lab that is your own backyard. There’s a lot to explore, but this post’s focus is on birds, and how to turn kids’ observations into exercises in critical thinking. The activities below are designed to help kids […]
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Cause and effect is all about reading to understand why something happens and what resulted. It helps connect actions to outcomes, explaining relationships between events or ideas. Readers focus on causes, effects, and how one leads to another, sometimes in a simple chain, sometimes in more complex ways. Free Resources for Cause & Effect Text
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This section focuses on the rhythms and patterns writers build into their words so readers can appreciate not just what a text says, but how it sounds. The elements of poetry and poetic devices like alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, rhythm, and onomatopoeia all help to make the language in poetry memorable. Overviews and Tutorials Poetry
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Free textbooks, virtual labs, interactives, and activities for building units on ecology or environmental science: Here’s a downloadof free Earth Day activities. Ecology in your Own Backyard: Check out the free resources at EcologyOnline, with free videos and activities for exploring the ABCs of Ecology; and Watersheds. There’s also CK-12’s Intro to Ecology, with 35
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