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If I Built a Car ClassPack

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If I Built a Car ClassPack

*LAST CHANCE! This product is not eligible for return or exchange. All sales are final.* Using Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, Expanded 2nd Edition Lessons in your classroom is easier than ever! NSTA’s ClassPacks, each sufficient for a class...

Elementary Middle School Engineering STEM Technology Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Science and Engineering Practices

Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes (e-book)

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes (e-book)

Author Page Keeley continues to provide K–12 teachers with her highly usable and popular formula for uncovering and addressing the preconceptions that students bring to the classroom—the formative assessment probe—in this first book devoted exc...

Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion (e-book)

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Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion (e-book)

Never has it been so easy for educators to learn to teach physical science with confidence. Award-winning author Bill Robertson launched his bestselling Stop Faking It! series in 2002 with Force and Motion—offering elementary and middle school te...

Gourmet Lab: The Scientific Principles Behind Your Favorite Foods (e-book)

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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...

Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (e-book)

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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...

Welcome to Nanoscience: Interdisciplinary Environmental Explorations, Grades 9–12 (e-book)

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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...

Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts: A Framework to Support Learners, Grades 3–5 (e-book)

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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...

Project Earth Science: Astronomy, Revised 2nd Edition (e-book)

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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...

Project Earth Science: Geology, Revised 2nd Edition (e-book)

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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? ...

Schoolyard Science: 101 Easy and Inexpensive Activities (e-book)

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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...

Team Teaching Science: Success for All Learners (e-book)

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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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Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion

Never has it been so easy for educators to learn to teach physical science with confidence. Award-winning author Bill Robertson launched his bestselling Stop Faking It! series with Force and Motion—offering elementary and middle school teachers a j...

By William C. Robertson, Ph.D.

Elementary High School Middle School General Science Physical Science Instructional Materials Inquiry Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Teacher Preparation

Earth’s Shape and Gravity

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Earth’s Shape and Gravity

It is not difficult to think of reasons why it is important for students to understand that a round globe represents our planet. After all, Earth is our home in space. Environmentalists remind us that it’s the only home we have, so it’s importa...

Motion Basics

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Motion Basics

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about motion. Activities include Time to Roll, Describing Motion, Different Speeds, and Evaluation. ...

Newton’s Third Law

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Newton’s Third Law

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Third Law. Activities include Push Back, Newton’s Third Law, Exploding Canisters and Evaluation. ...

Adding Directions-Vectors

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Adding Directions-Vectors

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about adding directions and vectors. Activities include Direction Matters and Vector Application....

Newton’s First Law, Part I

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Newton’s First Law, Part I

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s First Law. Activities include Objects at Rest and Staying at Rest. ...

Newton’s First Law, Part II

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Newton’s First Law, Part II

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s First Law. Activities include Objects in Motion, Galileo Explains It All, Sheep in a Jeep, With Coinage, and Evaluation. ...

Net or Unbalanced Forces

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Net or Unbalanced Forces

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about forces. Activities include Changes in Motion and What Causes Them and Evaluation....

Newton’s Second Law

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Newton’s Second Law

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Second Law. Activities include How Are These Things Related?, Newton’s Second Bit of Advice for All of Us, Second Law Balloons, and Evaluat...

Gravitational Forces

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Gravitational Forces

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about gravity. Activities include Gravity on a Roll, Gravity—An Equal Opportunity Force, and Falling Pieces of Metal....

Mass and Weight

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Mass and Weight

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about mass and weight. The activity in this chapter is Mass and Weight....

NSTA Press Book

Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts: A Framework to Support Learners, Grades 3–5

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...

By Susan B. Koba with Carol T. Mitchell

Elementary Informal Education Earth & Space Science Physical Science Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Teacher Preparation

Even More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events (e-book)

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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? ...

More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events (e-book)

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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? ...

Acceleration

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Acceleration

This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about acceleration. Activities includes, Changing Motion, Accelerating, Acceleration or Not, and Evaluation. This free selection also includes the Table of Con...

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