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To Look Closely: Science and Literacy in the Natural World

by Laurie Rubin
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781571109927
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 29.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 531 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Schools / Levels / Elementary

Whether it's a trickling stream, a grassy slope, or an abandoned rail line, the natural world offers teachers a wonderful resource around which to center creative, inquiry-based learning throughout the year. Nobody knows this better than veteran teacher Laurie Rubin. In To Look Closely: Science and Literacy in the Natural World, she demonstrates how nature study can help students become careful, intentional observers of all they see, growing into stronger readers, writers, mathematicians, and scientists in the process.

Laurie invites you to join her class of twenty-one second graders as they visit a small stream in the woods behind a suburban elementary school, and she shares her reflections on class discussions, activities, and learning experiences. From setting a tone of inquiry-based thinking in the classroom to suggesting specific units of study for reading, writing, and science, Laurie guides teachers step-by-step through the basics of how to integrate the skills acquired through nature study into every subject. You will also discover all the ways this purposeful work nurtures "green" citizens who grow up determined to value and protect the natural environment.

Filled with student journal entries, narratives, and poems inspired by experiences in the natural world, To Look Closely will inspire and encourage you to become a careful observer of your own "sit spots" outdoors and embrace nature study for a year--or for whatever part of a year is possible for you. This book will change the way you view the world.

Rubin, Laurie: -

Laurie Rubin taught first and second grades in Ithaca, New York for twenty-three years where nature study became the heart of her curriculum. She currently consults and presents on a variety of education topics including literacy and critical thinking skills. She continues to connect children to the natural world by teaching school and community based workshops.

When Laurie became a mother, she was amazed at how her daughter absorbed new information at a seemingly astronomical pace. "When I volunteered in her Pre-K classroom I discovered that I loved working with young children and loved creating stimulating learning experiences for them," she says, adding that through teaching she learned how to "be a better writer, reader, and mathematician and I developed new passions in my life."

Laurie received her master's degree from the University of New Hampshire. Her areas of specialty include writing instruction, reading comprehension strategies, and literacy through nature study.

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