Tips for using Science World in the classroom.

Maureen Van Ackooy, this Teacher's Edition's contributor, suggests: Try this activity that stretches the imagination, increases vocabulary, and familiarizes your students with the element symbols. Using the periodic table on p. 14 from "Name That Element!", have students create words with the element symbols. Then, write each element's full name underneath. The rules are simple: You may not split up the symbol, you must write the symbols exactly as they appear, and the words must be school appropriate. For example: SnOB-Tin, Oxygen, and Boron. In my classroom, we have a Wall of Fame of students' words and sentences!

Maureen Van Ackooy, science teacher at Union Vale Middle School in LaGrangeville, New York, contributed to this issue's Teacher's Edition.