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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Teacher Edition
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How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high…
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Project Earth Science: Physical Oceanography, Revised 2nd Edition
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How well can your students— • Explain why ice floats? • Model ocean currents? • Predict tides? • Describe the proper clean-up of an oil spill? Project Earth Science: Physical Oceanography,…
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Outdoor Science: A Practical Guide
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Research shows that environment-centered education improves student achievement. Whatever your school’s setting—urban, suburban, or rural—you can create stimulating outdoor classrooms for your students, with a little…
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Exemplary Science for Building Interest in STEM Careers
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National standards encourage science teachers to help “increase student economic productivity through the use of the knowledge, understandings, and skills of the scientifically literate person in their careers.”…
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Exemplary Science for Resolving Societal Challenges
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Amid a flurry of national standards and high-stakes assessments, it’s easy to overlook the curiosity and invention that is inherent to science and that should be central to any science lesson plan. Similarly, the…
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The Feedback Loop: Using Formative Assessment Data for Science Teaching and Learning
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What really helps your students learn science: Labs? Group work? Certain types of problems or test questions? Something you never even thought about? Find out with data that go way beyond what standardized test scores…
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A Head Start on Life Science: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder
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Nurture curiosity and even joy in the youngest scientists. The 24 inquiry-based lessons in this lively collection show you how. The activities are organized into sections on animals, plants, and nature walks. Rather…
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Patterns and the Plant World, Grade 1: STEM Road Map for Elementary School
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What if you could challenge your first graders to relate changes in seasonal weather patterns to changes in the plant world using a container garden? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!…
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Human Impacts on Our Climate, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School
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New in 2020! What if you could challenge your sixth graders to come up with a way to help tackle climate change in their own community? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Human…
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Amusement Park of the Future, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School
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What if you could challenge your sixth graders to design an amusement park for children of tomorrow to safely enjoy? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Amusement Park of the…
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The Power of Investigating: Guiding Authentic Assessments
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Children want to explore, dig, build, play, and wonder. To do this they need to touch, feel, see, observe, listen, manipulate, plan, and create. How does a teacher build and maintain a learning environment that will…
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Preparing Teachers for Three-Dimensional Instruction
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It’s not enough for teachers to read through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and correlate their content to the established curriculum. Teachers must prepare to make the vision of the NGSS come alive in…
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STEM Education Now More Than Ever
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In response to “these unconventional and uncertain years,” veteran educator Rodger W. Bybee has written a book that’s as thought-provoking as it is constructive. Now more than ever, he writes, America needs reminders of…
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The Power of Assessing: Guiding Powerful Practices
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The Power of Assessing will show you how to use authentic assessments as a dynamic teaching tool. But this book doesn’t just describe ways to evaluate your students’ learning. Through colorful photographs and over 30…
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Light: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach It
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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…
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