Exam 6: Integrating Science and Engineering

During pre-reading experiences, around which three topics should a teacher focus discussion of the material students are preparing to read from science-related texts?

Which of the following aspect of mathematics provides an example of making science and mathematics connections using data collection and expression?

In this chapter, an analogy was made that related the use of integrated units in science teaching to which of the following?

In this chapter you learned various techniques for extending science through language-arts-related activities. In a paragraph, describe the three most commonly used techniques the authors present for integrating science and language arts.

Attitude and value development is an important dimension that can easily be integrated with science from which of the following curriculum areas?

Select any science topic, and describe in a paragraph how an elementary school classroom teacher could plan with the school's music teacher a meaningful science unit that students could explore in both their regular and music classrooms.

In a paragraph, suggest at least four practical activities an elementary teacher might carry out with students to help them see that art and science are related.

In a paragraph, describe one activity an elementary teacher might conduct related to each of the three techniques you identified in question 1 so as to facilitate the integration of science teaching with language arts.

The authors suggest that children develop a repertoire of specific reading and writing process skills that enable them to carefully observe and react to what they experience through which of the following?

The Next Generation Science Standards provide strong guidance for integrating science and engineering across disciplines through the use of themes, one of which is "systems." Which of the following describes a teaching strategy related to this theme?

In a paragraph, identify and describe the three mathematics skills that were highlighted in this chapter as provisions of special opportunities for integrating science and mathematics.

Using information presenting in this chapter, discuss in a paragraph your attitude about how music and science are related.

People often make a strong distinction between science and art. As such, reflect in a paragraph on your attitude about artistic expression as it relates to science.

Imagine that you are attending a school board meeting during which board members are going to discuss the possibility of eliminating social studies as a teaching requirement to save instructional time, because social studies is not a subject included in standardized testing in your state. Outline a speech that is at least three paragraphs long that you could make to convince the board to consider how science and social studies could be integrated rather than totally eliminating the latter subject.

A child receives a new bicycle for her birthday. As part of a writing project you challenge her to identify and tell about the simple machines within it. To which of the following writing forms is the assignment most closely related?

Identifying and pronouncing science terms before science teaching are techniques most closely associated with which one of the following?

Provide a sketch of a unit in which an elementary teacher could incorporate physical education activities to teach students concepts related to the Life Science Content Standard "Function in Living Systems".

The authors recommend that elementary teachers consider teaching science using different curricular subjects in addition to which of the following best practices?

In a paragraph, describe one activity an elementary teacher might conduct related to each of the three skills you identified in question 3 in order to help children see the relationship between mathematics and science.

Through integration with which of the following parts of the school curriculum could science content related to time, space, and force be most easily enhanced?