CONTENT / NGSS?

Discovering Life Science is not a science "program" that is aligned with any particular standards.

           It is a complete, up-to-date textbook of basic content (and enrichment material).

           It is also a resource book to support the teaching of outlining. 

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With its very brief, concisely-written and heavily-illustrated lessons, most of Discovering Life Science is well-suited to self-teaching. I originally chose this book's forerunner in order to free up more class time for hands-on activities.

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To facilitate the teaching of outlining, free handwritten "model" outlines of the book's 72 lessons are provided as pdf documents. (Please see the menu items TEACHING OUTLINING and CONTENTS).

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To better serve highly motivated students, to the original book I added 3 lessons, 20 optional-reading opportunities, and an additional 15 end-of-unit enrichment suggestions (increasing these from 23 to 38).

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Each lesson of the teacher's guide now has a section entitled Reinforcement / Enrichment. Here, I provide dozens of links to vetted videos - many for use with the entire class, others for students interested in delving deeper into the topic of a lesson. For many of the videos, specific portions are recommended.

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I've elaborated on the above under the menu item ... 

  WHY THIS BOOK? --- > RATIONALE AND STRATEGIES.