Earth science puzzles: making meaning from data
An activity book centered on six data puzzles that foster critical-thinking skills in students and support science and math standards. Earth Science Puzzles presents professionally gathered Earth science data including graphs, maps, tables, images, and narratives and asks students to step into scientists shoes to use temporal, spatial, quantitative, and concept-based reasoning to draw inferences from the data. --from publisher description.
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- Full title :Earth science puzzles : making meaning from data / by Kim Kastens, Margie Turrin.
Summary
An activity book centered on six data puzzles that foster critical-thinking skills in students and support science and math standards. Earth Science Puzzles presents professionally gathered Earth science data including graphs, maps, tables, images, and narratives and asks students to step into scientists shoes to use temporal, spatial, quantitative, and concept-based reasoning to draw inferences from the data. --from publisher description.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):NSTA Press
- Place of Publication:Arlington, Va
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 186 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781936137565, 1936137569
- oclc:ocn743227402
- LC Classification:QE47.A1
- Dewey Decimal:550.71/273
Table of Contents
How do we know what the climate was like in the past? / David McGee and Kim Kastens -- How do we decide "weather" or not to proceed with a trip? / Deena Kramarczyk and Kim Kastens -- What does an earthquake feel like? / Kim Kastens -- Is the Hudson River too salty to drink? / Margie Turrin and Kim Kastens -- Where did the water go? / Kim Kastens -- How much heat is released by a seafloor hydrothermal vent? / Rosemary Sanders and Kim Kastens.
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