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$23.63 *NEW* Taylor's Pneumatic Toys
I've designed pneumatic toys elementary and secondary students can build using wood. I have drawings and pictures of each toy with instructions on how to build them. Children have the opportunity to learn the joy of working with wood to the construction of an end product. Children and adults alike have learned through my workshops how to make many of the toys in this book. The sparkle in the eye of a child and the broad smile of an educator when they have made the toy and when they see it working is most gratifying. I am not a carpenter. My 'toys' are available for everyone to build and with care, should last a lifetime. Let the fun begin! - Stanley R. Taylor |
$50.85 *SPRING SPECIAL* CD BUNDLE - BUY 2 GET 1 FREE!!
To celebrate the arrival of warm temperatures and SPRING we are offering a special sale on CURRENT ELECTRICITY, SURVIVAL OPTICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE. These cd's are essential to the Grade 9 and 10 curriculum and contain videos, powerpoint presentations, and so much more!! Buy now and get one for free!!! $45 for all all three (savings of $22.50). |
$29.87 A Year of Inquiry: A Collection for Elementary Educators
If you’ve been clamoring for help to understand and then apply inquiry within your K–5 classroom, this book is the time-saving resource you need. It provides guidance on ways to move your students toward doing science and away from lectures, memorization, and cookbook labs. And it does so in one convenient place, through a collection of 36 easy-to-read articles gathered from Science and Children, NSTA’s elementary-level journal. |
$34.07 Becoming a Responsive Science Teacher
Becoming a Responsive Science Teacher offers
• A philosophical framework for understanding the beginnings of scientific thinking in high school students.
• Five real-life case studies, four of which are captured on videos—and accompanying transcripts—stored on the NSTA website.
• Suggestions for how to use the case studies to practice recognizing, interpreting, and responding to the vital nuances of your own students’ thinking in real time.
• Advice on next steps, including how to overcome systemic impediments and maintain your focus on student thinking. |
$10.97 Biodiversity: Resources for Environmental Literacy
Scientists have discovered that a large number of species are becoming extinct. What are the consequences of this decreasing biodiversity for us humans and for our planet? This module examines biodiversity through key concepts such as how relationships among species influence an overall system, what affects the extinction has had on Earth through its history, and how to use fossil records to study species that are now extinct. |
$38.27 Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Eve
Author Thomas O’Brien takes these and 30 more science inquiry activities to a higher level in this book for educators who love to surprise and challenge their students with unanticipated results. Using experiments based on the science of a “discrepant event”—an experiment or demonstration in which the outcome is not what students expect—O’Brien shows how learners can be motivated to reconsider their preconceived notions and think more closely about what has actually occurred and the underlying scientific explanations. |
$29.87 Bringing Outdoor Science In: Thrifty Classroom Lessons
When it’s just not possible to take students out to explore the natural world, bring the natural world to the classroom. Clearly organized and easy to use, this helpful guide contains more than 50 science lessons in six units: Greening the School, Insects, Plants, Rocks and Soils, Water, and In the Sky. All lessons include objectives, materials lists, procedures, reproducible data sheets, ideas for adapting to different grade levels, discussion questions, and next steps. |
$16.80 Building Successful Partnerships: Community Connections for Scie
ON SALE - Now $16.00, regular $22.45.
Community Connections for Science Education, Volume I: Building Successful Partnerships offers advice on how to select community resource partners, set joint learning goals, improve pre- and post-field trip activities, instruct students in field trip safety and etiquette, and much more. |
$31.97 Buzz Into Action: The Insect Curriculum Guide for Gr K-4
Buzz Into Action is a lively insect-education curriculum for teaching about the world’s most abundant and accessible group of animals. This cross-disciplinary guide introduces children to the joy of insects through investigations that involve scientific inquiry and knowledge building rather than memorization. You can put the 20 hands-on lessons to work individually or as a curriculum, in the field or in the classroom. Activities range from the basic—how to identify an insect—to the irresistible—Pollinator Party Relay Race, Camouflaged Critters, and Colony Collapse Town Meeting. |
$21.47 Celebrating Cultural Diversity: Science Learning for All
Science Learning for All: Celebrating Cultural Diversity covers three must-know” areas of multicultural science education: inclusive curriculum design, multicultural teaching strategies, and language diversity in science teaching and learning. |
$14.70 Construct-a-Boat
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Construct-a-Boat deepens students' knowledge of principles of mass, buoyancy, friction, and acceleration. Working with a simple model powered by a battery-driven fan, students get a feel for the forces involved in moving a boat through water. |
$14.70 Construct-a-Glove
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Physics and technology go hand-in-hand in this practical demonstration of thermodynamics. By testing a simple prototype of an insulated grove, students learn about homeothermic regulation and the variables that influence heat transfer. |
$23.63 Current Electricity
This resource contains a variety of activities that teach the basic concepts involved in current electricity. It was specifically designed to assist teachers meet the requirements of The Characteristics of Electricity Unit in The Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 and 10 – Science (SNC1D). Published 2006, STAO/APSO. |
$37.22 Designing Effective Science Instruction: What Works in Science C
Reflects on what is working well with your current approach to designing lessons and provides recommendations for improving existing lessons or creating effective new ones, all while exploring the characteristics of high-quality science lessons. |
$25.67 Dig In! Hands-On Soil Investigations
Give students the dirt on soil with a practical book that brings new meaning to the term "hands-on." Using these 12 activities and two original stories as guides, kids will soon be up to their elbows in the study of soil formation, habitats and land use, animals that depend on soil, plants that grow in soil, soil science, and soil conservation. |
$37.22 Even More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning wit
• How can water and a penny demonstrate the power of mathematics and molecular theory?
• Do spelling and punctuation really matter to the human brain?
The third of Thomas O’Brien’s books designed for 5–12 grade science teachers, Even More Brain-Powered Science uses the questions above and 11 other inquiry-oriented discrepant events—experiments or demonstrations in which the outcomes are not what students expect—to dispute misconceptions and challenge students to think about, discuss, and examine the real outcomes of the experiments. O’Brien has developed interactive activities—many of which use inexpensive materials—to engage the natural curiosity of both teachers and students and create new levels of scientific understanding. The hands-on activities serve as visual participatory analogies for science education principles related to the nature of science and cognitive learning theory, bridging the gap between practice and theory. |
$29.87 Even More Everyday Science Mysteries
What are the odds of a meteor hitting your house? What are “warm” clothes anyway? Do you get “more” sunlight from Daylight Saving Time? Everyone loves a good mystery and these unfold in the 15 stories presented in Even More Everyday Science Mysteries, the third volume in author Richard Konicek-Moran’s award-winning series. Again, the author uses stories without endings to teach a science principle, allowing the students to investigate how each story can be resolved. |
$31.97 Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom
Make ongoing, classroom-based assessment second nature to your students and you. Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom is a thought-provoking collection of 10 essays on the theories behind the latest assessment techniques. |
$28.82 Exemplary Science in Grades 9-12: Standards-Based Success Storie
In this collection of 15 essays, educators describe successful programs they’ve developed to fulfill the National Science Education Standards’ vision for the reform of teaching, assessment, professional development, and content at the high school level. |
$34.07 Extreme Science: From Nano to Galact
Whether we are imagining microbes or mammoths, dinosaurs or diatoms, molecules or stars, people of all ages are fascinated with the very large and the very small. |
