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Take-Home Physics: 65 High-Impact, Low-Cost Labs (e-Book)
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Take-Home Physics is an excellent resource for high school physics teachers who want to devote more classroom time to complex concepts while challenging their students with hands-on homework assignments. This volume…
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Taking Charge: An Introduction to Electricity (e-book)
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Spark your students’ interest in electricity. Taking Charge is designed to help teachers bring the intimidating subject of electricity to students in the middle grades. These teacher-tested, hands-on activities use…
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Teacher Research: Stories of Learning and Growing (e-Book)
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Think you don’t have time to do research? How about professional growth—think that’s out of reach? Let your peers take you on their journeys and inspire you through their stories in Teacher Research. You will gain…
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Teaching Science in the 21st Century (e-Book)
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This powerful new book is brain food for all those who care deeply about science and students—including teachers, science educators, curriculum specialists, and policy makers. The collection of 21 provocative essays…
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Teaching Science in the Two-Year College: An NSTA Press Journals Collection (e-book)
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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…
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Teaching Science to English Language Learners: Building on Students’ Strengths (e-book)
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Can a student’s cultural background support learning in science? Or is concentrating on the specialized vocabulary of science the best way to help English language learners learn science? This book addresses these and…
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Teaching Teachers: Bringing First-Rate Science to the Elementary Classroom (e-book)
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Preservice and novice teachers feeling jittery will find this book full of workable strategies for helping students experience the wonders of science. Classroom veterans will discover new ideas, and science educators…
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Teaching Tips: Innovations in Undergraduate Science Instruction (e-book)
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Like a spirited idea exchange among experienced professors, Teaching Tips: Innovations in Undergraduate Science Instruction brings you the best thinking from campuses nationwide about how to engage undergraduate science…
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Team Teaching Science: Success for All Learners (e-book)
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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…
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Technology in the Secondary Science Classroom (e-book)
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If you’re waiting to be convinced that computers offer more than pricey bells and whistles in the classroom, this is the book that will open your mind to technology’s potential. But even if you’re an early (and avid)…
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Ten-Minute Field Trips (e-book)
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You don't have to go far to get science out of the classroom. An NSTA best-seller, this book is ideal for teachers in all school environments--urban, suburban, or rural. Renowned educator Helen Ross Russell describes…
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The Biology Teacher's Handbook, 4th Edition (e-book)
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Biology teachers, you’re in luck—BSCS (Biological Sciences Curriculum Study) presents a wealth of current information in this new, updated edition of the classic The Biology Teacher’s Handbook. No matter the…
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Using Comics in the Science Classroom: A Pedagogical Tool
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Comic strips found in newspapers and magazines can be used to assess both student and teacher understanding of science concepts. They can also be used to get students’ attention, introduce a new topic, and stimulate…
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Students work with various types of packing peanuts to investigate states of matter and chemical and physical changes. One of the activities involves making slime. The activities can easily be modified for students with…
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Scope on Safety: Black lights—Don’t be in the dark
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Some middle school science teachers take advantage of black light technology phenomena and fluorescent materials in classroom demonstrations and laboratory investigations. Should they be concerned about students working…