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For decades, many of the nation’s life science classrooms have been anything but lively. Biology has been criticized for being content heavy, overlo...
NSTA Press Book
Crossing Borders in Literacy and Science Instruction: Perspectives on Theory and Practice
Although there is little argument that an important connection exists between literacy and science, much is not known about how literacy-science learn...
NSTA Press Book
Clones, Cats, and Chemicals: Thinking Scientifically About Controversial Issues
Does human cloning present a threat or an opportunity? Do common cats constitute a major threat to wildlife? Will the development of new chemical and ...
By Irwin Slesnick
NSTA Press Book
Evolution in Perspective: The Science Teacher's Compendium
If ever a subject could benefit from a strong dose of perspective, it’s evolution. This important new book supplies the necessary insights by bringi...
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This book starts with a rather simplistic view of what light is. This chapter starts with a simple explanation which will be easy to understand and it...
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You're probably really upset that all you have so far is a simple little ray model of light. When do we get to the good stuff, you say? How about now?...
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It's time to take some of the things we know about light and put them to good use. In this chapter, the author discusses various optical instruments l...
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If you browse through the sunglasses at your local department store, you'll find that some of them are advertised as "polarized." What is it that make...
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Light doesn't always travel in straight lines. It can bend around corners, just like sound. When it does change direction like this, you end up with l...
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This chapter is, as the title indicates, all about eyeballs and how they work. We'll use just about everything we've learned so far, plus one or two n...
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Fire the Photon Torpedoes, Mr. Sulu!
Yeah, what about those photon torpedoes? Aren't photons supposed to be little light particles? Yes, they are, and they constitute the third model for ...
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Stop Children, What's That Sound?
Aging hippies might recognize the title of this chapter from an old Buffalo Springfield song. Others will just have to ignore it, and realize that thi...
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Unless you really haven't been paying attention to the world around you, you know that plucked strings produce sounds. Carlos Santana demonstrates th...
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Sound travels in waves, but those waves aren't exactly like waves on a string. One nice things is that sound waves have all the same relationships be...
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Harmonic convergence refers to a day back in 1987 where there was a particular planetary alignment. New Agers went crazy over the event, and if you w...