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Curriculum Resources: SCIS 3+
SCIS 3+ consists of 13 units and spans from kindergarten
through sixth grade.
The concepts developed in each unit of SCIS 3+ are elaborated
upon throughout the program. Students acquire a strong background
for building scientific literacy that enables them to make intelligent
decisions about their environment and the world in which they
live.
Completely activity-based, the SCIS 3+ approach is based
upon current research as to how children learn. The original
program, SCIS, integrated the learning theories of Jean Piaget. Using
the Learning
Cycle strategy, students are led to discover concepts through
their
investigations with a wide variety of manipulative materials
and live organisms.
SCIS 3+ is a revision of the work of the
Science Curriculum
Improvement Study, which was developed at the Physics Department
and the Lawrence
Hall of Science of the University of California at Berkeley
with the support of the National Science Foundation. Development
of SCIS 3+
was supported and copyrighted by Delta Education. For more
information, contact:
Delta Education, Inc.
phone: 1-800-258-1302
http://www.delta-education.com/teachers/science/scis.html
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Curriculum Resources
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