Time for Summer Gardening!
Life Lab’s Language Acquisition and Science Education in Rural Schools (LASERS) program showed the positive links between language development and hands-on science using the Life Lab Science curriculum.
This theme was recently revisited by the National Gardening Associations Kidsgardening.com newsletter.
Learn more about LASERS from these past posts:
And from these documents:
- The LASERS Model
- English Language Learner Institutes
- Integrating Inquiry Science and Language Development for English Language Learners Trish Stoddart, America Pinal, Marcia Latzke, Dana Canaday Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2002, 39(8), 1-25.
- Integrating Science and Language Instruction for English Language Learners. Falling Leaves, 9, 9-14.