Deck 6: Integrating Science and Engineering

Question 1

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

A) Superglue
B) Oobleck
C) The process of separating wheat from chaff
D) The process of separating curds from whey

Answer 1

Superglue

Question 2

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

A) Writing skill development
B) Vocabulary building
C) Basal usage
D) Concept analysis

Answer 2

Vocabulary building

Question 3

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?

A) Persuasion
B) Exposition
C) Paraphrasing
D) Summarizing

Answer 3

Exposition

Question 4

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?

A) Who, When, Where
B) What, Why, How
C) Who, When, How
D) When, Where, Why

Question 5

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

A) Measuring sound waves
B) Organizing animals by kingdom
C) Predicting how fast salt will melt ice
D) Finding the percentage of Hydrogen in a water molecule

Question 6

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?

A) Language arts
B) Physical education
C) Art
D) Social studies

Question 7

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

A) Language arts
B) Physical education
C) Art
D) Social studies

Question 8

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

A) Teaching fundamental concepts of science inherent in these subjects
B) Specifying vocabulary common to both science and these subjects
C) Researching scientists who were also strong in these subjects
D) Emphasizing how science and these subjects are different

Question 9

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?

A) Teaching children that things that differ from one another in terms of size may also behave differently
B) Teaching children that a whole object is made of parts that affect the whole
C) Teaching children that models are tools used to understand the world
D) Teaching children that discoveries have withstood the test of time

Question 10

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?

A) Participating in poetry writing
B) Listening to literature read aloud
C) Experimenting with vocabulary
D) Attending to information obtained through their senses

Question 11

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.

Question 12

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.

Question 13

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.

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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.

Question 16

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.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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.

Question 19

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".

Question 20

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.