Project-Based Writing in Science

• Main Author: Baines, Lawrence
• Language: English
• Published: SensePublishers 2014
• Subjects: Education; L1; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:56065; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-671-4

Turn your students into scientists who use their knowledge and creativity to solve real-world problems. Each lesson features a step-by-step guide; a summary of recent research; and handouts that are classroom-ready. Learn about the three levels of writing, from a Level 1 quickwrite to a formal, multi-part, Level 3 research paper. Each writing assignment—narrative, persuasive, and informative—includes a detailed rubric that makes grading easy. Students collaborate to contain an outbreak of avian flu, lead a group of people trying to survive under harsh conditions, battle drought in a densely-populated city in the American southwest, research the behavior of animals in the local region, and calculate their own speed, velocity, and momentum. Engaging and demanding, Project-Based Writing in Science helps students to understand and improve the world.