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Gourmet Lab: The Scientific Principles Behind Your Favorite Foods (e-book)
Hands-on, inquiry-based, and relevant to every student’s life, Gourmet Lab serves up a full menu of activities for science teachers of grades 6–12. This collection of 15 hands-on experiments—each of which includes a full set of both student and...
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Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (e-book)
In the fourth book of this award-winning series, author Richard Konicek-Moran explores 15 new mysteries children and adults encounter in their daily lives. Relating the mysteries to experiences familiar to elementary and middle school students—Part...
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Welcome to Nanoscience: Interdisciplinary Environmental Explorations, Grades 9–12 (e-book)
In a society where technology plays an ever-increasing role, students’ ability to understand the underlying science and make smart social and environmental decisions based on that knowledge is crucial. Welcome to Nanoscience helps biology, chemistr...
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Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts: A Framework to Support Learners, Grades 3–5 (e-book)
Authors Susan Koba and Carol Mitchell introduce teachers of grades 3–5 to their conceptual framework for successful instruction of hard-to-teach science concepts. Their methodology comprises four steps: (1) engage students about their preconception...
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Project Earth Science: Astronomy, Revised 2nd Edition (e-book)
How well can your students … • Illustrate the reason for Earth’s seasons? • Explain how far a light year is? • Simulate the phases of the Moon? • Describe the effects of greenhouse gases? • Connect astronomy to other Earth sys...
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Project Earth Science: Geology, Revised 2nd Edition (e-book)
How well can your students … • Explain the distribution of earthquakes? • Model volcanic eruptions? • Demonstrate plate motions and interactions? • Describe seafloor changes? • Think in terms of geologic time? ...
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Schoolyard Science: 101 Easy and Inexpensive Activities (e-book)
With 101 easy and inexpensive activities to do on school grounds, Schoolyard Science can help students develop their observation and inquiry skills as well as an appreciation of their outdoor environment. Covering topics such as lower plants, gardens...
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Team Teaching Science: Success for All Learners (e-book)
In Team Teaching Science, Ed Linz, Mary Jane Heater, and Lori A. Howard demonstrate the truth in the old adage “Two heads are better than one.” This guide for developing successful team-teaching partnerships that maximize student learning will h...
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Even More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events (e-book)
• How can water and a penny demonstrate the power of mathematics and molecular theory? • Do spelling and punctuation really matter to the human brain? ...
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More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events (e-book)
• What can a chocolate chip cookie tell us about the Earth’s resources and the importance of environmental conservation? • How can a clear, colorless spray solution unveil a hidden message on a blank sign? ...
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Earth Science Puzzles: Making Meaning From Data (e-book)
Teachers of Earth and environmental sciences in grades 8–12 will welcome this activity book centered on six “data puzzles” that foster critical-thinking skills in students and support science and math standards....
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Mastery Learning in the Science Classroom: Success for Every Student (e-book)
In these pages, Kelly Morgan presents a compelling case for implementing a mastery learning science classroom and then shows us how to do it. Using research-based student performance data, Morgan compiles impressive statistics that support her assert...
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Developing Visual Literacy in Science, K–8 (e-book)
More than 50 percent of science lessons in today’s elementary textbooks use visual information to help demonstrate concepts. With Developing Visual Learning in Science, K–8, educators can help their students develop skills in interpreting photogr...
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Hop Into Action: The Amphibian Curriculum Guide for Grades K–4 (e-book)
K–4 teachers, homeschoolers, camp leaders, and naturalists will find the standards-based lessons in this slim volume the perfect introduction to environmental science for young learners. Hop Into Action helps teach children about the joy of amphibi...
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The Teaching of Science: 21st-Century Perspectives (e-book)
What should citizens know, value, and be able to do in preparation for life and work in the 21st century? In The Teaching of Science: 21st-Century Perspectives, renowned educator Rodger Bybee provides the perfect opportunity for science teachers, adm...
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Tried and True: Time-Tested Activities for Middle School (e-book)
A compilation of popular “Tried and True” columns originally published in the award-winning journal Science Scope, this new book is filled with teachers’ best classroom activities—time-tested, tweaked, and engaging. These favorites are organi...
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Predict, Observe, Explain: Activities Enhancing Scientific Understanding (e-book)
John Haysom and Michael Bowen provide middle and high school science teachers with more than 100 student activities to help the students develop their understanding of scientific concepts. The powerful Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) strategy, field-...
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Exemplary Science for Resolving Societal Challenges (e-book)
Amid a flurry of national standards and high-stakes assessments, it’s easy to overlook the curiosity and invention that is inherent to science and that should be central to any science lesson plan. Similarly, the connections between what students l...
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Nationally known science educator Page Keeley—principal author of the hugely popular, four-volume NSTA Press series Uncovering Students Ideas in Science—has teamed up with physicist and science educator Rand Harrington to write this first volume ...