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"Next time you see a sunset, stop and sit down for a while." This book's tempting opening line invites children and adults to take in a daily phenomenon with fresh eyes. Together they can learn to appreciate the spinning of the Earth, the progress of day into night, and the reasons for the spectacular colours and shadows that accompany so many sunrises and sunsets.

Never has it been so easy for educators to learn to teach physical science with confidence. Award-winning author Bill Robertson launched his bestselling Stop Faking It! Series in 2002, with Force and Motion. This proves an ideal supplement to the original book - or a valuable resource of its own. The hands-on activities and highly readable explanations allow students to first investigate concepts, then discuss learned concepts, and finally apply the concepts to everyday situations.

This comprehensive resource for STEM teachers and students, outlines the various stages of large-scale research projects, enabling teachers to coach their students through the research process. Early chapters help students design and implement, later chapters help correctly interpret their data, and the last chapters enable students to effectively communicate their results by writing and documenting a STEM research paper.

Explores the concept of mental models in relation to the learning of science, and how we can apply this understanding when we teach science. Models-based science teaching embraces the creativity inherent in science and in learning. Practicing science teachers at all levels who want to explore new and better ways to frame and model science will find value in this book.

Even More Brain-Powered Science is the third book in the series and is designed for 5-12 grade science teachers. The hands-on activities serve as visual participatory analogies for science education principles. Whether you are new to the Brain-Powered Science books or are a 'brain-powered' professional, this book is sure to create shared entertaining educational experiences for teachers and students.

Introduces teachers grades 3-5 to the conceptual framework for successful instruction of hard-to-teach science concepts. The authors explain how to use the framework and provide a variety of tools and examples of its application. Both preservice and inservice elementary school teachers will find this approach appealing.

In the fourth book of this award-winning series, the author explores 15 new mysteries children and adults encounter in their daily lives. Relating the mysteries to experiences familiar to elementary and middle school students.

In Team Teaching Science, Ed Linz, Mary Jane Heater, and Lori A. Howard demonstrate the truth in the old adage " Two heads are better than one." This guide for developing successful team-teaching partnerships that maximize student learning will help preservice and inservice special education and science teachers in grades K- 12, as well as methods professors in science education programs who want to cover special needs issues in their curriculum. Using both research-based practices and personal insight from experienced team teachers, the authors strive to make team teaching beneficial for students and accessible for teachers. Linz, Heater, and Howard provide background information on science teaching and team teaching and, most important, six chapters on how to teach specific science topics and how a co-teaching team can proceed through the school year. The basic elements of collaboration are introduced, along with chapters on co-teaching strategies to implement in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. The authors, who have years of co-teaching experience, offer practical advice that teachers can apply to their own classrooms. Teaching a diverse group of students is one challenge teachers will likely encounter in a team-teaching environment; the authors address the difficulties that may arise, as well as issues related to assessment, curriculum, and necessary accommodations and modifications. For those tackling the challenges of team teaching, this book will prove to be a valuable resource for making team teaching a positive experience for both students and teachers.

Helps teach children about the joy of amphibians through investigations that involve scientific inquiry and knowledge building. K-4 teachers, homeschoolers, camp leaders, and naturalists will find the standards-based lessons in this slim volume the perfect introduction to environmental science for young learners. Twenty hands-on learning lessons can be used individually or as a yearlong curriculum.

This first volume in the new series on physical science begins with one of the most challenging topics in physical science: force and motion. The 45 assessment probes in this book enable teachers to find out what students really think about key ideas in force and motion.

Get students thinking outside the traditional classroom walls. These practical suggestions for creating, maintaining, and using outdoor classrooms work for both elementary and middle school students. The simple and inexpensive lessons satisfy national standards and curriculum objectives in the areas of life, Earth, and environmental sciences.

The detailed analogies between the activities and science learning make this book an ideal resource for middle and high school teachers. This thorough and thought-provoking text includes more than 200 up-to-date internet resources, as well as extensions to each of the physical science, biology, and chemistry activities.

Reading skills and life science come together in this engaging new book for middle school teachers. The reading passages on science content are more student friendly and easier to follow than typical textbooks. With this interdisciplinary volume, teachers can help students learn the science in a straightforward manner and develop strategies to improve their reading.

Given the ability of nanoscience and nanotechnology to exploit the unique properties that matter exhibits at the nanoscale, the research resulting from these emerging fields is poised to dramatically affect everyday life. In fact, many widely used electronic, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and textile products already employ nanotechnology. With the support of the National Science Foundation, scientists, educators, researchers, and curriculum developers have achieved a rough consensus on what the key concepts-- or " big ideas" -- of nanoscience might be for middle and high school science students: - Size and Scale - Structure of Matter - Forces and Interactions - Quantum Effects - Size-Dependent Properties - Self-Assembly - Tools and Instrumentation - Models and Simulations - Science, Technology, and Society This volume provides in-depth discussions of each big idea. Nine additional chapters examine learning goals and how to reach them, students' likely misconceptions, and ideas for integrating nanoscale science and engineering with traditional science content. An appreciation of nanoscience will help students understand fundamental science concepts across disciplines. Also, learning the enormous implications of the extremely tiny nanoscale phenomena will pique students' interest in the study of 21st-century science and at the same time motivate them to learn traditional science.

Drawing from the author's own work as a lab developer, coordinator, and instructor, this one-of-a-kind text for college biology teachers uses the inquiry method in presenting 40 different lab exercises that make complicated biology subjects accessible to major and nonmajors alike. The volume offers a review of various aspects of inquiry, including teaching techniques, and covers 16 biology topics, including DNA isolation and analysis, properties of enzymes, and metabolism and oxygen consumption. Student and teacher pages are provided for each of the 16 topics.

This new volume in our bestselling series provides more topic areas for classroom use as well as guidance on how teachers can use the probes for their own learning. Volume 3 offers five life science probes, seven Earth and space science probes, ten physical science probes, and three nature of science probes. This volume is an invaluable resource.

For the littlest scientists, the whole wide world can be a laboratory for learning. Nurture their natural curiosity with A Head Start on Science, a treasury of 89 hands-on science activities specifically for children ages 3 to 6. The activities are grouped into seven stimulating topic areas: the five senses, weather, physical science, critters, water and water mixture, seeds, and nature walks. Because the activities have been field-tested by more than a thousand Head Start teachers over 10 years, you'll find this collection unusually easy to use in a variety of settings, including elementary schools, pre-K programs, and day care. In addition to clear background and a helpful materials list, you get step-by-step procedures and help preparing for comments and questions children may pose. Each activity ends with a reproducible Family Science Connection-- in both English and Spanish-- to send home so the whole family can share a learning experience that's both simple and pleasant. Thanks to a focus on the fun of exploration and discovery, children probably won't be the only ones who find these activities irresistible. As Editor Bill Ritz writes in the Introduction, " We hope your own sense of wonder will be heightened as you observe children and as their curiosity leads them to answer their own questions about everything they see, hear, smell, and touch."

Extensively researched and pilot tested in both classrooms and professional development settings, Learning and Teaching Scientific Inquiry will help teachers integrate authentic scientific inquiry into their science programmes. Advancing a new perspective, the authors assert that scientific inquiry is best taught using models in science rather than focusing on scientists' activities.

Muddled about what makes music? Stuck on the study of harmonics? Dumbfounded by how sound gets around? Now you no longer have to struggle to teach concepts you really don't grasp yourself. Sound takes an intentionally light touch to help out all those adults-- science teachers, parents wanting to help with homework, home-schoolers-- seeking necessary scientific background to teach middle school physics with confidence. The book introduces sound waves and uses that model to explain sound-related occurrences. Starting with the basics of what causes sound and how it travels, you'll learn how musical instruments work, how sound waves add and subtract, how the human ear works, and even why you can sound like a Munchkin when you inhale helium. Sound is the fourth book in the award-winning Stop Faking It! Series, published by NSTA Press. Like the other popular volumes, it is written by irreverent educator Bill Robertson, who offers this Sound recommendation: " One of the coolest activities is whacking a spinning metal rod to create a ' wah-wah' effect. It's a simple activity, the explanation incorporates several interesting properties of sound. This activity is in Chapter 5. I suggest you try it and see!"

To the teacher: Although this book is intended as a guide for your students, NSTA has you covered as well! Science Fair Warm-Up, Teachers Guide: Learning the Practice of Scientists provides all of the information you need to guide your students through the activities included in this book. To the student: If you have used the other books in the Science Fair Warm-Up series, you already have an idea of what a science fair project and real scientific investigation is like; if not, don't worry. Science Fair Warm-Up, Grades 8- 12 provides you with the opportunity to choose a great project. For instance, you might carry out experiments that explore the pollution of our planet's water or the possibility of growing plants on the Moon. If you prefer, you can select an inquiry of your own and even work with a partner. As you work on your project, your teacher will give you help along the way. Together you will explore some of the challenging problems other students have encountered: problems of designing and carrying out experiments, collecting and making sense of your findings, and sharing and presenting what you have learned. As you follow in the footsteps of scientists, you will learn about the ways in which scientists carry out scientific research and begin to understand how they have uncovered so much about how our universe works.

Teacher's handbook for teaching science.

If you work with linguistically and culturally diverse students, you and your students will benefit from the foundation this book provides for teaching both science and language. Science for English Language Learners brings you the best practices from different but complementary fields of science education and English language teaching, integrating the two. The book is designed so you can easily dip in and out of the topics you want. It's organized into four sections: > 2. Classroom strategies for planning, teaching, assessing, and extending learning 3. How to design lessons and model lessons for K-- 12 students 4. Context and research, including an overview of science and English as a second language standards; instructional practices; and ways to integrate science, language, and literacy Each of the 10 chapters is coauthored by experienced science and language educators who coordinate their approaches to teaching English language learners. By capitalizing on strengths from both fields, Science for English Language Learners will help you reach all students.

2010 Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers. Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 4, offers 25 more formative assessment probes to help reveal students' preconceptions of fundamental concepts in science.

Like the blockbuster before it, this reveals the surprising misconceptions students bring to the classroom - so you can adjust your teaching to foster a sound understanding of science. The field-tested probes are short, easy to administer, and ready to reproduce. This volume suggests ways to embed the probes throughout your instruction, not just when starting a unit or topic.

This fascinating book will stay with children every time they gaze up at the night sky. Through vivid pictures and engaging explanations, children will learn about many of the Moon's mysteries: what makes it look like a silvery crescent one time and a chalk-white ball a few nights later, why it sometimes appears in the daytime, where it gets its light, and how scientists can predict its shape on your birthday a thousand years from now.

With Bill Robertson as your guide, you will discover you can come to grips with the basics of force and motion. This book will lead you through Newton's laws to the physics of space travel. The book is as entertaining as it is informative. Best of all, the author understands the needs of adults who want concrete examples, hands-on activities, clear language, diagrams and yes, a certain amount of empathy.

Demonstrates how to teach the understanding and thinking skills students need to explore real-world questions, such as: Should schools charge a "tax” to discourage kids from eating unhealthy foods? Should local governments lower speed limits to reduce traffic fatalities? At the core of the exploration is the Socioscientific Issues Framework. The framework gives students practice in the research, analysis, and argumentation necessary to build scientific literacy.