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Writing in Science in Action

Betsy Fulwiler

Pub Date: 8/8/2011 1
 Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 5th

“Kids love hands-on science.  Yet too few grow up to be scientists.    Kids need to be reading, writing and thinking about science as well as doing it. Writing in Science in Action propels us full throttle into both hands-on and "minds on" science.  Rupp Fulwiler show us how to help kids wrap their minds around science, do science... more

Doing What Scientists Do, Second Edition

Ellen Doris

Pub Date: 2/10/2010
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 5th

“This is a splendid, down-to-earth book—especially for elementary teachers who want to do science but are unsure how to go about it. The intensity of children’s interest is unmistakable. And Ellen’s low-key style reassures the reader that children in any classroom can do work that is just as fine.” —Eleanor Duckworth, Harvard University   “I... more

The Missing Link

Lee Meadows

Pub Date: 8/20/2009
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 10th

For too long, evolution has been denied its place in the science curriculum.  School policies driven by misunderstanding or fea regularly displace widely recognized principles of science.  But without understanding evolution, students--no matter what their religious beliefs--will never achieve the level of scientific literacy they... more

Science as Thinking

Wendy Hoffer

Pub Date: 3/13/2009
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 5th - 10th

  You are about to immerse yourself in a gorgeously readable and engaging account of how teachers can move science instruction from “hands on to minds on.” Wendy Ward Hoffer describes how teachers can extrapolate what is known about good thinking strategies instruction to science teaching and learning. Hoffer illuminates... more

Negotiating Science

Brian Hand , Lori Norton-Meier , Jay Staker , Jody Bintz

Pub Date: 2/11/2009
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 5th - 10th

  Knowing from the inside out how argument works is a literacy skill now universally recognized as essential. This is the goal of real reading, writing, and speaking—and finally the gift of real science. I am grateful to the authors of this volume for making these gifts available to science and literacy teachers, but... more

Questions, Claims, and Evidence

Brian Hand , Lori Norton-Meier , Lynn Hockenberry , Kim Wise

Pub Date: 3/31/2008
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 6th

  I am so pleased that this book is going to be out in the professional conversation, especially in a time when science teaching and the understandings about our world that come about because of it get pushed aside. —Katie Wood Ray Author of About the Authors   Questions, Claims, and Evidence presents a new approach... more

Outdoor Inquiries

Peter Dow , Patricia McGlashan , Kristen Gasser , David Hartney , Bill Rogers

Pub Date: 3/21/2007
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 5th - 8th

Outdoor Inquiries offers approaches to help students become skilled at asking their own questions, gathering their own data and analyzing it for themselves—to become real inquirers. We recommend it to all of our teachers.   —Lynn Rankin Director, Institute for Inquiry, Exploratorium   The book is a great treasure for all science... more

Beyond the Science Fair

Wendy Saul , Charles Pearce , Donna Dieckman , Donna Neutze

Pub Date: 3/15/2005
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 3rd - 6th

It's time to rethink the traditional science fair, with its tired tri-fold posters and first-prize ribbons. It's time to create an event where children share the results of authentic, personally meaningful explorations with one another rather than compete for adults' praise and attention. It's time for a Kids' Inquiry Conference... more

Teaching Inquiry-Based Chemistry

Joan Gallagher-Bolos , Dennis Smithenry

Pub Date: 8/19/2004
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 1st - 12th

A powerful and very readable book for all chemistry teachers who want to use projects and constructivism in their classrooms.—Herbert D. Their, University of California, Berkeley, Founding Director of SEPUPThis delightful book exudes contagious enthusiasm for active learning, which will inspire virtually any teacher to venture... more

Worms, Shadows, and Whirlpools

Sharon Grollman , Karen Worth

Pub Date: 7/29/2003
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: PreK - K

A must-read for both experienced and beginning preschool teachers.—Ben Mardell, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of EducationAll teachers of young children should learn how to bring the ideas in this book into their teaching—Diane Levin, Professor of Education, Wheelock College. . . a wonderful tapestry of science... more