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Offers 39 new formative assessment probes, with a focus on electric charge, electric current, and magnets and electromagnetism. It can help you do everything from demystify electromagnetic fields to explain the real reason balloons stick to the wall after you rub them on your hair. Like the other eight popular books in this series, Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 2 provides a collection of engaging questions, or formative assessment probes.

Young scientists will get both inspiration and giggles from this humorous but true tale of early experiments with flying. Introducing scientific processes and principles of flight, Up, Up in a Balloon may prompt budding inventors to try, try again-just as the Montgolfier brothers did when they launched the first hot air balloons more than 200 years ago.

In this fairy tale, it takes a village to figure out the height of a friendly giant. The townspeople's earnest, yet humorous, attempts to gauge just how big Milton is convey the importance of standard units of measurement. The story even accounts for the real-life origin of such funny-sounding units as feet.

If you're looking for inspiration to alter your teaching methods to match new standards and new times, this book is for you. As the first in the Exemplary Science series to focus exclusively on college science teaching, this book offers 16 examples of college teaching that builds on what students learned in high school.

What can an animal do? All kinds of things! This book encourages children to notice the characteristics and behaviours of a world of different animals: from gnawing, swimming beavers to spinning, climbing spiders to hopping, baby-toting kangaroos. What Can an Animal Do? is a lively introduction to observing, comparing, and describing - all things budding scientists can do, too.

Tells the amazing story behind seashells: how they are grown by molluscs, used for protection and camouflage, and full of clues about all they've been through. Children are naturally intrigued by seashells and will find them even more fascinating when they discover that these beautiful objects come from slimy, snaily creatures.

"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.

For high school and upper middle school teachers, this compendium, drawn from NSTA's award-winning, peer-reviewed journals, comprises inquiry-based activities, lesson plans, and case studies designed to help teach increased awareness of energy, environmental concepts, and the related issues.

Climate Change From Pole to Pole: Biology Investigations offers timely, relevant, biology-based case studies and background information on how to teach the science of climate change. The six painstakingly researched and field-tested activities, which build on four content chapters, give students the opportunity to solve real-life scientific problems using guiding questions, graphs and data tables, short reading assignments, and independent research. This volume provides an authentic and rigorous way to engage students in science and environmental issues-- scientific methods, evidence, climate, and biological effects of climate change-- and is a unique and essential resource for your high school or college-level classroom.

Science Safety in the Community College is the fourth in NSTA's popular series of safety guidebooks. The book also offers a wealth of related websites and a detailed index for quick reference. Not all community college facilities and students are the same, but this book will teach you and your students to "see" your particular physical environment and procedures through a safety-conscious lens.

This collection of 16 essays is ideal for staff development providers, as well as preservice science methods instructors. Each essay describes a specific program designed to train current or future teachers to carry out the constructivist, inquiry-based approach of the Standards. Each essay also provides evidence of effectiveness on how teachers grow more confident using inquiry approaches,

Like a search engine for science teachers, How to... Weave the Web into K-8 Science is your custom-made guide to bringing the best of the Internet into your classroom. It offers resources for Web-based science teaching and learning plus online technical help for both beginners and experienced computer users.

Designed for postsecondary science content teachers, science educators, and administrators, this book shows how to implement all six areas of the Standards on campus: teaching, professional development, assessment, science content, science education programs, and science education systems.

Organised into three practical parts, The Creation Controversy arms you with insights into modern science and the Book of Genesis, effective strategies for teaching evolution and other controversial topics, and the NSTA Position Statement on Evolution.

Human activity has introduced species to ecosystems around the globe. Some species are benign or even beneficial while others are causing native species extinctions and damage to human systems. Seven activities using pillbugs, the school grounds, species dispersal maps, and introductory genetics provide students with the skills they need to address this important global question.

Demonstrates how to bring the vision of the National Science Education Standards into the middle school curriculum. It encompasses all aspects of teaching, assessment, content, professional development, and the science program. By following this pathway, you will bring real-world context into your school and classroom.