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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms
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Thinking made visible: That’s what happens when elementary students record their thoughts in science notebooks. This practical guide shows how notebooks can become a tangible record of their emerging understanding of…
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The Power of Questioning: Guiding Student Investigations
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This pedagogical picture book is a powerful tool in a small package. The authors of The Power of Questioning invite you to nurture the potential for learning that grows out of children’s irrepressible urges to…
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Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Teacher Edition
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Would you like to challenge your middle school students to explain a range of phenomena—from how nylon thread can form from two clear, colorless liquids to how a snake that eats only eggs can make body structures such…
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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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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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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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