The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.
The Human Body - Common Core Lessons and Activities is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.
How to Use
The Human Body - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice These new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer. Then to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge it to 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The Human Body - Common Core Lessons and Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• And More!