Differentiating Instruction With Menus

<p>The best-selling <i>Differentiating Instruction With Menus</i> series has helped teachers nationwide differentiate instruction for their high-ability learners with easy-to-use menus and exciting tools to challenge and reach gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Each book includes an updated, student-friendly rubric that can assess different types of products, free choice proposal forms to encourage independent study, and new and favorite challenging menus to meet the needs of these diverse higher level learners. Readers will also be able to save time by using updated guidelines that reflect changes in technology for each of the products included in the menus and find direct alignment with standards approved in recent years. Topics addressed in <i>Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Science (Grades 3-5, 2nd ed.)</i> include physical science, biological science, Earth science, and scientists and the tools they use.<br><br>Grades 3-5</p> Author’s Note Part I: All About Menus and Choice Chapter 1: Choice Chapter 2: How to Use Menus in the Classroom Chapter 3: Guidelines for Products Chapter 4: Rubrics Part II: The Menus Chapter 5: Physical Science States of Matter Physical Properties of Matter Mixtures and Solutions Forces Forms of Energy Conductors and Insulators Electricity Light and Its Properties Chapter 6: Biological Science Plant and Animal Life Cycles Adaptations Inherited Traits of Plants and Animals Food Chains and Food Webs Carbon Dioxide-Oxygen Cycle Environments and Environmental Changes Chapter 7: Earth Science Our Soil Landforms Earth’s Processes Rapid Changes to Earth’s Surface Our Earth’s Resources Alternate Energy Sources Fossils and Fossil Records Our Weather Earth, Sun, and Moon System The Lunar Cycle Our Planets Space Chapter 8: Scientists and the Tools They Use Tools Scientists Use Young Scientists Famous Scientists References About the Author Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards