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  Curriculum Coverage

How does Investigating Science and Technology provide curriculum coverage?
  1. Completely Investigating Science and Technology reflects the new emphasis on STSE, which provides the context for ALL learning. Every unit, chapter, and sub-section begins, develops, and ends with a purposeful Science, Technology, Society & the Environment (STSE) issue.


  2. Efficiently We have done the planning for you. Investigating Science and Technology is built around a 34-week teaching plan and provides a variety of pathways, depending on how much time you spend teaching science and technology each week.


  3. Effectively The new science and technology curriculum identifies the importance of cross-curricular strategies for the purpose of improving scientific understanding. The chart below shows how Investigating Science and Technology effectively incorporates cross-curricular strategies:

    Chapter 1: Previewing Text Features Chapter 7: Making Predictions
    Chapter 2: Predict, Read,Verify Chapter 8: Monitoring Comprehension
    Chapter 3: Writing to Persuade Chapter 9: Procedural Writing
    Chapter 4: Mind Map Chapter 10: Determining Importance
    Chapter 5: K-W-L Chart Chapter 11: Asking Questions
    Chapter 6: Writing Questions and Answers Chapter 12: Cause and Effect Patterns
        Reading     Writing

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