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Show your students how amazing it can be to just ""see what will happen"" when they blend biology, engineering, and serendipity. Focusing on innovations sparked by accidental or unexpected observations, the case studies in this resource are a lively way to integrate engineering and experimentation into your biology classes.

Designed for teachers at all grade levels, this book will help teachers anticipate and respond to students' questions - and help students reconcile their religious beliefs even as you delve into topics such as evolution, geochronology, genetics, the origin of the universe, and climate change.

Outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. Like the other volumes in the series, this book is designed to meet the growing need to infuse real-world learning into K-12 classrooms.

What if you could challenge your kindergartners to create a mini roller coaster as an entry point to understanding the physics of motion? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!

If you've ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based learning and the engineering design process.

Reveals the big impact bees have on the world. Next Time You See a Bee shows how the physical features of bees make them pros at collecting and spreading pollen. It explains how bees pollinate flowers, discusses why bees are threatened, and shares what readers can do to help.

Emphasizes child-centred development of science practices and skills. Children can explore the natural world as they take advantage of lively opportunities for science learning. Each lesson includes a follow-up activity, connections to centres and children's literature, assessment guides, and bonus activities.

Get help teaching one of the hottest topics in science with Understanding Climate Change. The book provides both extensive background and step-by-step instructions for using three-dimensional methods to explore this complex subject.

Get rave reviews for science by putting this book's step-by-step plans to work. Staging Family Science Nights is your playbook for creating an informal learning environment that will generate enthusiasm and enjoyment of science among the entire family.

Who knew that gecko feet inspired scientists to develop a stickier adhesive or that cockleburs in dog fur led to the invention of Velcro? Discovery Engineering uses these and other surprising cases of innovations sparked by accidental observations to teach about the amazing role of serendipity in science.

Offers 32 new formative assessment probes to help you understand how your students (and even you!) think about matter and energy core ideas. The 11th book in the Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series, this volume delivers the same teacher-friendly features that have made the series a bestseller.

These 15 field-tested lessons cover energy, waves and their application in technologies for information transfer, molecules and organisms, and Earth's place in the universe and systems. Students will explore questions ranging from how you can make an electrical car move faster to why big waves block the entrance to some New Zealand harbours.

These 14 field-tested lessons cover motion and stability, molecules and organisms, heredity, biological evolution, and Earth's systems. Your students will explore questions ranging from why wolves live in groups to how the climate changes as one moves from the equator toward the poles.

What if you could challenge your second graders to build an outdoor STEM classroom - complete with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? Investigating Environmental Changes provides young children with a STEM context in which to explore how plant and animal life cycles coincide with the Earth's movement around the Sun.

These 15 field-tested lessons cover energy, waves and their application in technologies for information transfer, molecules and organisms, and Earth's place in the universe and systems. Your students will explore questions ranging from how you can make an electrical car move faster to why big waves block the entrance to some New Zealand harbors.

These 14 field-tested lessons cover motion and stability, molecules and organisms, heredity, biological evolution, and Earth's systems. Your students will explore questions ranging from why wolves live in groups to how the climate changes as one moves from the equator toward the poles.

Based on solid research findings, this book shows you how to put into practice the 5R Instructional Model: Replace, Reveal, Repeat, Reposition, and Reload. The model provides a framework for creating instructional strategies that offer authentic language-learning opportunities within your inquiry-based science classroom.

Makes the connection between Earth's spheres, rainfall analysis, irrigation, and mathematical modelling. Students draw on environmental science and the engineering design process to complete activities such as creating a rain gauge, learning about volume calculations, and analyzing data to determine the best location for a water collection system.

With this follow-up to the award-winning Notable Notebooks, you can help kids discover what data - and scientists - can do! Exemplary Evidence highlights how a diverse range of scientists, including Marie Tharp and Russell Stands-Over-Bull, have used measurements, mapping, and even sketches to make all kinds of breakthroughs.

Why do some birds have beaks like straws, or pouches, or even daggers? Invite students to find out by reading this story of a child and two growns on a jaunt that sparks all kinds of questions. In addition to kindling kids' curiosity, the colourful book shows how the structure of birds' beaks plays a significant role in how birds function.

Shows how to use authentic assessments as a dynamic teaching tool. Through colourful photographs and over 30 minutes of video footage, you can see and hear teachers and students in action as they use pre-assessments and formative, summative, and metacognitive assessments to make instructional decisions.

Provides how-to advice that will make this book a go-to resource. It offers six standards-based lessons that show how to infuse engineering concepts into existing courses. The book also provides wide-ranging material from each of the major content areas in biological sciences, including structures and processes, ecosystems and biological evolution.

With this collection of engaging lessons, even the youngest students can make an important discovery: Scientists aren't stereotypes wearing goggles and lab coats. They are both women and men whose work and success stem from their life experiences and character traits.

Provides a window into science ideas and practices by drawing on and adapting peer-reviewed articles from scientific journals. Each evidence-based text ties into one of five disciplinary core ideas - from molecules to organisms, ecosystems, heredity, biological evolution, and human impacts on Earth systems.

What if you could challenge your first graders to relate changes in seasonal weather patterns to changes in the plant world? Patterns and the Plant World helps young children learn about a range of natural phenomena in a STEM context.

What if you could challenge your sixth graders to create packaging that's engineered to both protect a product and make it a hot seller? Packaging Design is based on the concept that success in the 21st-century workplace requires blending content and communication skills.

Demonstrates how to make simple shifts in the way you arrange and combine activities to improve student learning. After explaining why sequencing is so important, Patrick Brown provides a complete self-guided tour to becoming an ""explore-before-explain"" teacher.

This uses science journalism techniques to help students become better consumers of, and contributors to, a scientifically literate community. It is divided into three parts: background information and a rationale for using science journalism techniques; concrete advice about how to teach science literacy in this framework; and the process of putting together and writing a news story.

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 both the themes that made it great in the first place and STEM's contributions to its citizens.

Are you interested in using argument-driven inquiry for high school lab instruction but just aren't sure how to do it? Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physics, Volume 1 is a one-stop source of expertise, advice, and investigations to help physics students work the way scientists do. The book includes a well-organized series of 23 field-tested labs that cover a variety of topics related to mechanics, including forces and interactions, energy, work, and power. You can use the introduction labs to acquaint students with new content or the application labs for deeper exploration of the use of a theory, law, or unifying concept. The labs will also help your students learn the science practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas found in the Next Generation Science Standards and develop the disciplinary skills outlined in the Common Core State Standards. Student Lab Manual for Argument-Driven Inquiry in Physics, Volume 1 provides the student materials you need to guide your students through these investigations. With lab details, safety information, and handouts, your students will be ready to start investigating.