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$28.82 Exemplary Science in Grades PreK-4: Standards-Based Success Stor
Evidence of change is apparent in this fourth volume of the Exemplary Science monograph series, an essay collection featuring educators in PreK-4 describing programs they’ve developed to fulfill the Standards’ More Emphasis guidelines. The 14 programs are real-life examples you can learn from in carrying out reforms in teaching, assessment, professional development, and content. |
$34.07 Exploring Ecology: 49 Ready-to-Use Activities for Grades 4-8
Get out of the classroom and into the field, where students can get up close and personal with the environment. Exploring Ecology gets you ready and then tells you what to do when you get there. It’s a collection of hands-on, inquiry-based activities developed and written by two teachers who test-drove them with their own students. |
$46.63 Exploring Matter and Energy - 5/6 Essentially Science and Techno
Organized around key science and technology skills, this Grade 5/6 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 978-0-9811748-3-9) NOTE: Discounts are available for purchases of 20 to 49 and greater than 50 copies. Contact info@stao.org for particulars. |
$29.87 Force & Motion: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So
Intimidated by inertia? Frightened by forces? Mystified by Newton’s law of motion? You’re not alone—and help is at hand. The stop Faking It! Series is perfect for science teachers, home-schoolers, parents wanting to help with homework—all of you who need a jargon-free way to learn the background for teaching middle school physical science with confidence. |
$23.10 Girls in Science: A Framework for Action
ON SALE - Now $22.00, regular price $27.45.
Behind the stereotype of girls’ not doing well in science are some reasons, mostly based on one fact: They are often—and most often inadvertently—treated differently in the classroom. |
$18.32 Hands-On Herpetology: Exploring Ecology and Conservation
Plentiful, diverse, and readily available, these animals—known in science as “herps”—are also perfect for teaching students about biology, ecology, and conservation, including problems affecting both amphibians and reptiles. |
$27.77 Help! I'm Teaching Middle School Science
Like your own personal survival guide, Help! I’m Teaching Middle School Science is a nontechnical how-to manual—especially for first-year teachers. But even veteran teachers can benefit from the plentiful ideas, examples, and tips on teaching science the way middle-schoolers learn best. |
$26.72 Inside-Out: Environmental Science in the Classroom and the Field
Inside-Out covers topics such as using topographic maps to better understand landforms, exploring the physical landscape of a local area, how water sustains biological organisms, and the relationship between soil conditions and local flora—using both field- and classroom-based lessons to convey important environmental science concepts. Each chapter includes an introduction to the material covered, followed by activities that allow students to use direct observation and inquiry to learn various concepts in environmental science. |
$28.82 Light: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can
Why is left right and right left in the mirror? Baffled by the basics of reflection and refraction? Wondering just how the eye works? If you have trouble teaching concepts about light that you don’t fully grasp yourself, get help from a book that’s both scientifically accurate and entertaining—with Light. |
$23.63 Microscale Laboratory Exercises for Intermediate Science (2001)
This manual includes eight exercises designed for Grades 7 and 8 science. It promotes alternative, safer techniques for student hands-on activities with a focus on a problem-solving approach to science. |
$19.43 Microscience: An Elementary School Approach (1998)
This resource includes many examples of student “hands-on” activities in which inexpensive microscale science equipment can be used at the Grade 7-8 level. |
$25.67 Mixing It Up: Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Intriguing Science
This book—a compilation of 25 practical articles from NSTA’s elementary school journal, Science & Children—offers a wealth of lesson plans and idea starters using interdisciplinary, integrated, and thematic approaches. |
$29.87 More Chemistry Basics: Stop Faking It!
Overwhelmed by orbitals? Terrified of thermodynamics? Agitated by acids and bases? Have no fear! This follow-up to the award-winning Chemistry Basics will clear up your chemistry woes. In More Chemistry Basics, the ninth book in the bestselling Stop Faking It! series, author Bill Robertson introduces additional chemistry concepts, such as special reactions and half-lives, and expands on many previously discussed ideas, including electron energy levels and why we can’t know exactly what electrons are doing and where they are. Robertson explains science basics using easy-to-follow activities that help teachers learn the fundamentals and more. |
$36.17 More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to
Teachers raved when NSTA Press published Picture-Perfect Science Lessons in 2005.* They loved its lively mix of kid-magnet books, Standards-based science content and ready-to-teach lessons. So what could be more perfect? |
$26.72 Once Upon a Life Science Book: 12 Interdisciplinary Activities t
Reading skills and life science come together in this engaging new book for middle school teachers. Once Upon a Life Science Book makes it easy for teachers to improve their students’ reading abilities and teach science content simultaneously through clearly outlined, inquiry-based lessons. |
$41.42 Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to Guide
Wouldn’t it be perfect if an expert combined the appeal of children’s picture books with Standards-based science content—and then offered you the ready-to-teach results? Picture-Perfect Science Lessons makes that exciting idea a reality. |
$23.57 Science Fairs Plus: Reinventing an Old Favourite, Grades K-8
At last: a sure cure for science fair fatigue. This new book -- a collection of 20 articles from NSTA's member journals for elementary, middle, and high school teachers -- is bound to re-energize the way you plan and produce these mainstay events. |
$33.02 Science for English Language Learners: K-12 Classroom Strategies
If you work with linguistically and culturally diverse students, you and your students will benefit from the foundation this book provides for teaching both science and language. Science for English Language Learners brings you the best practices from different but complementary fields of science education and English language teaching, integrating the two. |
$28.82 Sound: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can
Muddled about what makes music? Stuck on the study of harmonics? Dumbfounded by how sound gets around? Now you no longer have to struggle to teach concepts you really don’t grasp yourself. |
$25.67 Start Young - Early Childhood Science Activities
Start Young! offers a wealth of simple educational activities designed to use right away with even the littlest scientists. The book includes a chapter of helpful background on the latest thinking about effective ways to introduce science in early childhood. |
