Teachers in the “information age” are faced with challenges! So much to do...so little time. How can writing objectives, science objectives, and problem-solving objectives be taught a long with reading, research, and language skills? There are not enough hours in the day.

But there is a way! Teachers can meet curricular and student performance requirements by clustering, telescoping, and/or combining objectives and outcomes between and across content areas.

For example, a teacher may be required to assess students on the following objectives:
      • locate supporting evidence in information sources
      • use the scientific method
      • write a news article

An ideal activity combining these three “unconnected” objectives might be to:
      Write a news article about the creation of a new vaccine.

From this one activity, a teacher can assess student mastery of the objectives given while offering each student the opportunity to be uniquely creative. Students master objectives in science, reading, research, language skills, and problem solving.

The demands of society will require students to integrate skills. This book is designed to give students experiences in dealing with factual information creatively at the higher levels of thinking—analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. These skills will transfer to other areas of learning and, most importantly, to real life.

These mind-stretching activities were designed to correlate with the middle-grade science curriculum. The book contains 21 topics, and each topic includes background information and 4 writing activities.

Download the Table of Contents page here.

Grades 5-8.