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Program Overview
The Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) series includes more than 50 teacher's guides and handbooks for preschool through grade 10. About 35 of these are appropriate for middle school. The series also includes several assembly presenter's guides and exhibit guides. New guides and handbooks continue to be developed, and current titles are revised frequently. The series is designed to teach key science and mathematics concepts through activity-based learning. The time needed to complete GEMS units varies from about 2 to 10 class sessions.
Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level:
5-7.
In Bubble Festival, students participate in a variety of bubble activities in a learning-station format. The unit's 12 classroom tabletop activities provide open-ended explorations in an informal, student-centered setting. Students experiment with bubble formation, bubble behavior, and bubble geometry. They make bubble measurements, investigate surface tension, and discover different colors and patterns. "Activity Task Cards for Volunteers" explain the learning goals of each activity, suggest additional questions to ask students, and explain how to maintain stations so they are safe and ready for successive groups. Blackline masters of signs for the learning stations are provided for each activity. Literature and writing extensions are included.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; evidence, models, and explanation; change, constancy, and measurement.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Properties and changes of properties in matter.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Abilities of technological design.
Price:
$16 (ISBN 0-912511-80-X).
Publisher/supplier:
LHS GEMS.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
