Beginning+Reading+Activities

=Reading Warm-Up Activities= ===In the classroom I would like to begin class everyday with a reading activity. These activities will give students the chance to read and think before the lesson begins for the day. The following are five examples I would use, click on the links to see the activities:===

[|Science Daily] Science Daily is a web site that has all the latest research and news in the science world. These are short articles that are really interesting and will be read to the class and discussed. This article specifically is about the mysterious stone spheres in Costa Rica. After going to Costa Rica during Spring Break it would be interesting to show the students pictures, read this article and allow students to discuss what interests them.

[|First Science.com] First Science.com is a website that contains many different poems and quotes about science. This is a great website to introduce students to other forms of reading like poetry and quotations that can be used in Science. This particular poem is about fossils.

[|Science News for Kids] Science News for Kids is an awesome website that has many science articles along with pictures. This would be a great way to read an article related to what you are discussing in class and show the brightly colored pictures along with it. This website also has games, puzzles and labs students can do. I would like to use this to read an article at the beginning of class to hopefully tie into the lesson for the day.

[|The Magic School Bus] I would like to read the Magic School Bus book series as well. When I was younger I loved to read these books and still think they are a lot of fun to read today. These books are great for introducing new topics in science in a fun and interactive way. Many of these books relate to topics discussed in Middle School science like weather and the human body.

[|Science to Music] This website has all of the songs that Lodge McCammon has sung for different subjects. I think it would be a great reading warm-up to have the class read the lyrics to these songs and then listen to them. These lyrics have a lot of information in them and will help them learn different science concepts, while also having fun and singing along or listening to the songs.