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Thermal Energy: An Ice Cube’s Kryptonite!

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Thermal Energy: An Ice Cube’s Kryptonite!

This lesson helps students recognize that different materials have different thermal properties, distinguish between qualitative and quantitative meas...

Landfill Recovery

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Landfill Recovery

This lesson helps students to recognize that interventions can slow or stop the negative impact of human activities on the environment, identify strat...

Sunlight and the Seasons

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Sunlight and the Seasons

This lesson helps students to develop and use a model of the Sun–Earth system to explain: the relationship between the amount of sunlight and the se...

Getting to Know Geologic Time

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Getting to Know Geologic Time

This lesson helps students explain that Earth’s history is broken up into smaller time periods and rocks and fossils provide evidence for these time...

The Toes and Teeth of Horses

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The Toes and Teeth of Horses

This lesson helps students recognize that secondhand evidence can be used to answer scientific questions, describe how organisms change over time in r...

Core Idea PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

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Core Idea PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Like all enthusiastic teachers, you want your students to see the connections between important science concepts so they can grasp how the world works...

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy (Book Sample)

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Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy (Book Sample)

Great news for multitasking middle school teachers: Science educators Terry Shiverdecker and Jessica Fries-Gaither can help you blend inquiry-based sc...

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Look and See: I Wonder Why

This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn j...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Instructional Materials

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Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why

Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Instructional Materials

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Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why

“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s sn...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool General Science Instructional Materials

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Next Time You See a Cloud

Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a s...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Life Science Instructional Materials

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