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Discovery Engineering in Biology: Case Studies for Grades 6–12
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Show your students how amazing it can be to just “see what will happen” when they blend biology, engineering, and serendipity. Focusing on innovations sparked by accidental or unexpected observations, the case studies…
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Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers
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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 Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units…
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 3: Another 25 Formative Assessment Probes
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Because you demanded it! Since publication of Volume 1 of this series, thousands of teachers are using these innovative classroom tools to improve student learning in science. Following in the footsteps of earlier…
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 1: 45 New Force and Motion Assessment Probes
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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…
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Everyday Life Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching
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How do tiny bugs get into oatmeal? What makes children look like—or different from—their parents? Where do rotten apples go after they fall off the tree? By presenting everyday mysteries like these, this book will…
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Scientific Argumentation in Biology: 30 Classroom Activities
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“Individuals who are proficient in science should be able to understand the language of science and participate in scientific practices, such as inquiry and argumentation. Empirical research, however, indicates that…
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Science Fair Warm-Up, Teachers Guide: Learning the Practice of Scientists
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Even science fair enthusiasts may dread grappling with these two questions: 1. How can you organize many students doing many different projects at the same time? 2. How can you help students while giving them…
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It's Debatable! Using Socioscientific Issues to Develop Scientific Literacy K-12
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REVERE Award Finalist, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! “Functional scientific literacy requires an understanding of the nature of science and the skills necessary to think both…
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Introducing Teachers and Administrators to the NGSS: A Professional Development Facilitator's Guide
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REVERE Award Finalist, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! If you’re charged with helping educators achieve the vision of the new science standards, this is the professional development…
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NSTA Press Book |
It’s challenging to teach science well to all students while connecting your lessons to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This unique book portrays real teaching scenarios written by the teachers on the NGSS…
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Reimagining the Science Department
NSTA Press Book |
What if you could change the department-level factors that don’t support teaching and learning? Explore answers to this fascinating question and many more with Reimagining the Science Department. In five thoughtful…
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NSTA Press Book |
A Copublication of Corwin Press and NSTA Press Formative assessment informs the design of learning opportunities that take students from their existing ideas of science to the scientific ideas and practices that…
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Problem-Based Learning in the Life Science Classroom, K–12
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Problem-Based Learning in the Life Science Classroom, K–12 offers a great new way to ignite your creativity. Authors Tom McConnell, Joyce Parker, and Janet Eberhardt show you how to engage students with scenarios that…
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Disciplinary Core Ideas: Reshaping Teaching and Learning
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Like all enthusiastic teachers, you want your students to see the connections between important science concepts so they can grasp how the world works now—and maybe even make it work better in the future. But how…
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Big Data, Small Devices: Investigating the Natural World Using Real-Time Data
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Now your students can transform their mobile phones and tablets into tools for learning about everything from weather to water quality. Big Data, Small Devices shows you how. This book is designed for Earth and…
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