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Forestry Field Studies: A Manual for Science Teachers (e-book)
Why forestry field studies? As experienced teachers of scientific ecology and forestry concepts, we believe that a forest or woodlot can provide teachers and their students with the perfect laboratory for understanding some of the basic principles of...
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Designing Effective Science Instruction: What Works in Science Classrooms (e-book)
Science teachers, like all teachers, start each school year with high hopes and expectations for students to succeed. They plan their lessons, scramble to get the necessary equipment, and work hard to engage their students. However, despite good inte...
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Answers to Science Questions From the <em>Stop Faking It!</em> Guy (e-book)
This valuable and entertaining compendium of Bill Robertson’s popular “Science 101” columns, from NSTA member journal Science and Children, proves you don’t have to be a science geek to understand basic scientific concepts. The author of the ...
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Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Educators and Their Students (e-book)
Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Educators and Their Students provides readers with an innovative alternative to routine lecturing. With the Lecture-Free Teaching method, teachers build “learning partnerships” with th...
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Science Teacher Retention: Mentoring and Renewal (e-book)
“Some forty percent of all new science teachers leave the profession within five years, and too many science teachers are wedded to their textbooks and the routines they acquired during their collegiate years." What can be done to retain new scienc...
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Teaching Science in the Two-Year College: An NSTA Press Journals Collection (e-book)
Two-year colleges are critical to science education’s future—in fact, some data indicate that half of future science teachers will take their first years of science at a two-year school. To address the unique challenges of this special setting, T...