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NSTA Press Book

Safety in the Elementary Science Classroom (flipchart)

It’s a safety resource your classroom should not be without! As attractive as a poster and as convenient to use as a calendar, the completely update...

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Building Successful Partnerships: Community Connections for Science Education

No single educator can help children learn all they need to become scientifically literate. Resources are all around us—not only in traditional scie...

By William C. Robertson

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How to ... Ask the Right Questions

Questions, questions, questions! They are a large part of a teacher’s stock-in-trade. We use questions to help students review, to check on comprehe...

By Patricia E. Blosser

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Ten-Minute Field Trips: A Teachers's Guide to Using the Schoolgrounds for Environmental Studies

You don't have to go far to get science out of the classroom. An NSTA best-seller, this book is ideal for teachers in all school environments--urban, ...

By Helen Ross Russell

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Global Environmental Change: Introduced Species

Human activity has introduced species to ecosystems around the globe. Some species are benign or even beneficial; others, like zebra mussels, fire ant...

By Environmental Protection Agency , NSTA Press

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Global Environmental Change: Biodiversity

This book uses Costa Rica as a case study because the country's tropical forests contain four percent of Earth's total biological species diversity. B...

By NSTA Press, Environmental Protection Agency

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