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Quick view The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, Elementary School by Ted Willard Since the release of the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA has been at the forefront in promoting the standards and helping science educators become familiar with and learn to navigate this exciting but complex document... View Details
Quick view The NSTA Quick-Reference Guide to the NGSS, K-12 by Ted Willard Since the release of the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), NSTA has been at the forefront in promoting the standards and helping science educators become familiar with and learn to navigate this exciting but complex document... View Details
Quick view Why Science? by James Trefil Prize-winning scientist and bestselling author James Trefil contends that in order to participate fully in the democratic process, people must understand fundamental scientific concepts. In Why Science? Trefil details the concepts needed in order to be... View Details
Quick view Using Physical Science Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 3-5: Phenomenon-Based Learning by Matthew Bobrowsky What studentor teachercan resist the chance to experiment with Velocity Radar Guns, Running Parachutes, Super Solar Racer Cars, and more? The 30 experiments in Using Physical Science Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 35, let your elementary school students... View Details
Quick view Even More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events by Thomas O'Brien The third of Thomas OBriens books designed for 512 grade science teachers, Even More Brain-Powered Science uses the questions above and 11 other inquiry-oriented discrepant eventsexperiments or demonstrations in which the outcomes are not what... View Details
Quick view Models-Based Science Teaching by Steven W Gilbert Humans perceive the world by constructing mental modelstelling a story, interpreting a map, reading a book. Every way we interact with the world involves mental models, whether creating new ones or building on existing models with the introduction of... View Details
Quick view Learning and Teaching Scientific Inquiry: Research and Applications by James Jadrich Science teacher educators, curriculum specialists, professional development facilitators, and K8 teachers are bound to increase their understanding and confidence when teaching inquiry after a careful reading of this definitive volume. Advancing a new... View Details
Quick view Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts: A Framework to Support Learners, Grades 3-5 by Susan B Koba Authors Susan Koba and Carol Mitchell introduce teachers of grades 35 to their conceptual framework for successful instruction of hard-to-teach science concepts. Their methodology comprises four steps: (1) engage students about their preconceptions and... View Details
Quick view Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy by Wendy Saul Like citizen journalists, your students can get to the heart of science literacyand challenging questions like thesewith the learn by doing methodology in this innovative book. Front-Page Science uses science journalism techniques to help students... View Details
Quick view More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning with Discrepant Events by Thomas O'Brien The inquiry-based lessons and more than 80 related extension activities can serve as the framework for professional development collaborations or as a supplement to conventional preservice science teaching methods courses. Each chapter includes an... View Details
Quick view Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes by Page D Keeley In this volume, Keeley addresses the topics of life and its diversity; structure and function; life processes and needs of living things; ecosystems and change; reproduction, life cycles, and heredity; and human biology. Using the probes as diagnostic... View Details
Quick view Project Earth Science: Geology by Paul D Fullager Project Earth Science: Geology, Revised 2nd Edition, involves students in activities that focus on how plate tectonics explain characteristics and features of Earth. Fifteen hands-on, teacher-tested, classroom activities that use readily available... View Details
