Author Description

Learning About Air helps you teach children about the properties of the air we all breathe. It asks them, Where is air?, How much does it weigh?, What shape is it?, When does it rise?, and more. It uses a 4-step instructional model that helps learners make connections between new concepts and knowledge they have acquired from their own experiences.. Whether they're coloring, cutting and pasting, matching, or just listening to you read a favorite story about the atmosphere, children will be involved with the subject on several levels.Activities help children practice skills in: observation, communication, making comparisons, ordering, and categorization. You get student activity sheets, teacher resource pages with ideas for special projects and literature references, and many reproducible pages of picture cards, an air fair, and other templates. Air topics and concepts covered include: air is all around us, air has no shape of its own, hot air rises and takes up more space, air does work, and more. Cute, yet accurate line art illustrations throughout. All 48 pages perforated for easy removal.