Environmental Earth Science

Partner Reading

 

Partner reading means you work with a partner or two to read for information. It is an intensive reading method ideal for scientific information.  It does NOT mean reading out loud!

 

The assignment you are to read with a partner is information on how EM radiation is used to study space beginning at: http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/radio.html This website has lots of useful graphics and weird photos of things in space that were detected using wavelengths of energy that are not visible to humans.

 

Start by reading a portion of the first each page silently. Then you or your partner tells the rest of the group what it said in your/their own words. If all the partners agree, you go on. If you all do not agree, discuss (quietly) what it does mean.  When you all agree, go on the next section, and someone new describes what it means.

 

Obviously, this takes longer than reading by yourself, but your comprehension of the material  is greatly improved because more than one brain is processing it, and verbalizing information also helps.

 

Printed copies of the material are available if you are not allowed to use the school computers, but the graphics are not in color.