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Resources for Teaching Middle School Science
With age-appropriate, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sound teaching practices, middle school science can capture the interest and energy of adolescent students and expand their understanding of the world around them. Resources for Teaching Middle School Science, developed by the National Science Resources Center (NSRC), is a valuable tool for identifying and selecting effective science curriculum materials that will engage students in grades 6 through 8. The volume describes more than 400 curriculum titles that are aligned with the National Science Education Standards. This completely new guide follows on the success of Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science, the first i...
Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science
What activities might a teacher use to help children explore the life cycle of butterflies? What does a science teacher need to conduct a "leaf safari" for students? Where can children safely enjoy hands-on experience with life in an estuary? Selecting resources to teach elementary school science can be confusing and difficult, but few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching. Educators will find a wealth of information and expert guidance to meet this need in Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science. A completely revised edition of the best-selling resource guide Science for Children: Resources for Teachers, this new book is an annotated guide to hands-...
River Cutters
Students observe the passage of hundreds of thousands of years without leaving their desks! By creating desktop river models, students observe how rivers, canyons, deltas, and other geological formations change over time. The river models enable students to gain experience with concepts such as geological time, erosion, and pollution.
Departmental Allocations
Includes detailed budgets by campus.
Geoscience Research and Outreach
From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth’s deep interior, geoscience research affects people’s lives in many ways and on many levels. This book offers a stimulating cross-disciplinary perspective on the important relationship between geoscience research and outreach activities for schools and for the general public. The contributors – academics, research scientists, science educators and outreach program educators – describe and evaluate outreach programs from around the world. A section entitled Field-based Approaches includes a chapter describing an initiative to engage Alaskan communities and students i...
Light and Sound, Grades 6 - 12
Topics include what light and sound waves are, how they travel, and how the human body sees light and hears sound. Facilitates planning for the divese learning styles and skill levels of middle-school students. Glossary, materials lists, inquiry investigation rubric, and bibliography included.
Mapping Time, Space and the Body
Mapping Time, Space and the Body: Indigenous Knowledge and Mathematical Thinking in Brazil brings people, land and numbers together in the fight for justice. On this extraordinary voyage through ancestral territories in central and southern Brazil, the Xavante, Suyá, Kayabi, and other local nations use mapping as a tool to protect their human rights to lands and resources they have traditionally owned and acquired. Mathematics activities inside the classroom and in everyday life help explain how Indigenous Peoples understand the cosmos and protect the living beings that helped create it. The book is a welcome contribution to a growing literature on the mathematical and scientific thinking o...
Creative Sciencing
More than 130 activity ideas - growing crystals, launching water rockets, testing a light dimmer, mapping elevations, testing soil - prompt students to make eye-opening discoveries in biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental science, and physics. Each activity ends by citing other related activities in the book. A special "more for less" section provides tips for getting and making scientific materials at bargain prices, and all activities are indexed by skills and subject areas. Grades K-8. Index. Conversion tables. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 306 pages. Third Edition.
Science and Children
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