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Finders Keepers?: Who Owns the Dinosaur Bones?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, students learn how fossils provide clues about Earth’s past. After being introduced to the concept of foss...
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Blast From the Past: Do We Still Need a Space Program?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, the flight of Apollo 11 serves as a context for learning about forces and motion as students explore rocket ...
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“Mined” Your Own Business: Was the California Gold Rush Good for the United States?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, students simulate panning for gold within the context of the California gold rush to examine the properties ...
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Fueling Around: Which Energy Sources Are Best?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, students begin an exploration of energy by reading the true story of a Danish island that became completely ...
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Watch Your Step: Should Distracted Walking Be Illegal?
In this lesson, suggested for grades 3-5, students are introduced to the problem of “distracted walking,” which occurs when people use their phone...
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Natural Hazards, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
What if you could challenge your second graders to help communities prepare for disasters ranging from floods and wildfires to earthquakes and hurrica...
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Students explore natural hazards and their causes, with the aim of understanding that various types of natural hazards occur around the world. These h...
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In this lesson, students continue to explore natural hazards and connect the impacts with effects on animals’ homes. They investigate earthquakes as...
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Our Natural Hazard Preparedness Plans
In this lesson, students work in teams to demonstrate their understanding of the impacts of natural hazards by creating preparedness plans describing ...
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Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers (Book Sample)
If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engine...
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Discovery Engineering in Biology: Case Studies for Grades 6–12 (Book Sample)
Show your students how amazing it can be to just “see what will happen” when they blend biology, engineering, and serendipity. Focusing on innovat...
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It’s Still Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy, K–5 (Book Sample)
It’s Still Debatable! encourages scientific literacy by showing you how to teach the content and thinking skills K–5 students need to explore real...
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Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond (Book Sample)
“I have been hoping for a volume like this for a long time. Making Sense of Science and Religion marshals the best scholarship on science and religi...
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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Teacher Edition (Book Sample)
How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive a...
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Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 3–5: Explore Before Explain (Book Sample)
Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 3–5 is a one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine how you teach science in elementary school. The...