| |
$34.07 A Head Start on Science: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder
For the littlest scientists, the whole wide world can be a laboratory for learning. Nurture their natural curiosity with A Head Start on Science, a treasury of 89 hands-on science activities specifically for children ages 3 to 6. |
$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. |
$31.97 Activities Linking Science with Math, 5-8
Science does not exist in a vacuum and, therefore, shouldn’t be taught that way. In that spirit, Activities Linking Science With Math, 5-8, is a hands-on guide for teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of study—including visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math. |
$31.97 Activities Linking Science With Math, K-4
Science does not exist in a vacuum and, therefore, shouldn’t be taught that way. In that spirit, Activities Linking Science With Math, K-4, is a hands-on guide for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of study—including visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math. |
$28.82 Air, Water, and Weather: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding S
hunderstruck by storm fronts? Perplexed about air pressure? Hazy on how weather works? If you’ve always been shaky on the science behind such phenomena, Air, Water, and Weather is designed to help you develop a deep understanding of the basics so you can teach without fear. |
$21.00 Animal Coloration: Activities on the Evolution of Concealment
ON SALE - Now $20.00, regular price $24.45.
A classic resource for teachers is now back in an updated edition! Using an inductive and experimental approach, Animal Coloration aims to increase students’ awareness of the ways wild organisms are adapted to their environments. |
$28.82 Answers to Science Questions From the Stop Faking It! Guy
The author of the best-selling Stop Faking It! series explains everything from quarks to photosynthesis, telescopes to the expanding universe, and atomic clocks to curveballs—all with his trademark wit and irreverence. |
$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. |
$28.82 Chemistry Basics: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science
Do the words “periodic table” send chills down your spine? Are you anxious about atomic structure? Confounded by chemical equations? Relax! The cure for chemistry confusion is within reach, courtesy of this newly available book in the Stop Faking It! series. |
$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. |
$28.82 Doing Good Science in Middle School: A Practical Guide to Inquir
ust as middle schoolers are “wired” to learn in active, hands-on ways, this book is wired to help you spark a vital connection to these students to keep them tuned-in to science. Doing Good Science in Middle School combines practical insights about adolescent learners with what master teachers know about how to shift from passive, textbook-centered instruction to inquiry-based investigations. |
$29.87 Electricity & Magnetism: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding S
Shocked by static? Mixed up about magnets? Curious about currents? This book will help you get beyond memorizing electricity-related formulas, rules, and procedures so you can understand the topic at a deep level—deep enough to teach it with confidence and comfort |
$28.82 Energy: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can
Confounded by kinetic energy? Suspect that teaching about simple machines isn’t really so simple? Exasperated by electricity? If you fear the study of energy is beyond you, this entertaining book will do more than introduce you to the topic. It will help you actually understand it. |
$36.62 Essentially Science and Technology 6 - Electricity and Electrica
Organized around key science and technology skills, this Grade 6 resource contains a series of engaging demonstrations, student activities and assessment tools designed to meet the requirements of the Exploring Matter and Energy strand (Electricity and Electrical Devices) in the revised Ontario Curriculum: Grades 1-8 Science and Technology. (ISBN 978-0-9811748-4-6) NOTE: Discounts are available for purchases of 20 to 49 and greater than 50 copies. Contact info@stao.org for particulars. |
$46.63 Essentially Science and Technology-Combined Grades Unit 4/5 Expl
Essentially Science and Technology-Combined Grades Unit 4/5 Exploring Matter and Energy
Organized around key science skills, this Grade 4/5 resource
contains a series of engaging demonstrations, student activities
and assessment tools designed to meet the requirements of the
Exploring Matter and Energy strand in the revised Ontario
Curriculum: Grades 1-8 Science and Technology. (ISBN 978-0-9811748-2-2)
NOTE: Discounts are available for purchases of 20 to 49 and greater than 50 copies. Please contact info@stao.org for particulars. |
$36.62 Essentially Science and Technology-Light and Sound
Organized around key science skills, this Grade 4 resource
contains a series of engaging demonstrations, student activities
and assessment tools designed to meet the requirements of the
Exploring Matter and Energy strand in the revised Ontario
Curriculum: Grades 1-8 Science and Technology. (ISBN 978-0-9811748-1-5)
NOTE: Discounts are available for purchases of 20 to 49 and greater than 50 copies. Contact info@stao.org for particulars. |
$36.62 Essentially Science and Technology-Properties and Changes in Mat
Organized around key science and technology skills, this Grade 5 resource
contains a series of engaging demonstrations, student activities
and assessment tools designed to meet the requirements of the
Exploring Matter and Energy strand (Properties of and Changes in Matter) in the revised Ontario Curriculum: Grades 1-8 Science and Technology. (ISBN 978-0-9811748-2-2)
NOTE: Discounts are available for the purchase of 20 to 49 and greater than 50 copies. Please contact info@stao.org for particulars. |
$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. |
.jpg.png "Activities Linking Science with Math, 5-8")
.jpg.png "Activities Linking Science With Math, K-4")
