This book motivates and engages students by offering fun, hands-on science activities based on holidays and other special days. Twenty-three complete lessons teach physical science in the elementary classroom with toys, foods, and household objects. Each easily extendable lesson includes historical and cultural background information, cross-curricular integration ideas, and references to the National Science Education Standards. Appropriate for grades K5.
Inspired by favorite childrens stories, this book is a complete guide to an innovative approach that meshes physical science and language arts while emphasizing the process skills common to both areas. Pedagogical strategies for both reading and science are featured, and many lessons include suggestions for learning centers and masters for reproducible flip cards and data sheets. Each of the 20 lessons addresses a category of the National Science Education Standards and includes an easy-to-understand science explanation. Appropriate for grades K4.
How can Mr. Potato Head inspire students'enthusiasm for learning chemistry? With this powerful book, you will learn to use Mr. Potato Head-and many other fun items - to capture (and keep) attention in your classroom! Meaningful, motivating, and fun!... Middle and high school students will love this selection of 28 lessons designed to build understanding of important chemistry concepts and expand investigative skills. With a combination of hands-on experiences and teacher demos, Chemistry with Charisma Volume 2 helps each learner connect with ideas and information in unique ways. "Brings the real science of claims and evidence to your classroom." Dr. Brian Hand, Professor of Science Education, University of Iowa
Family science events are a wonderful way to get families involved in science education. This book helps teachers and community organization leaders bring science events to settings where Spanish is the primary language for some of the parents and children that attend. (NOTE: The separately purchased Science Night Family Fun from A to Z book is needed for complete instructions for planning and setting up family science events.) Spanish Supplement to Science Night Family Fun from A to Z includes Spanish versions of the key items that families will read. The accompanying CD-ROM contains reproducible and customizable family pages.
Innovative investigations like these will empower middle and high school students to explore the states of matter and changes of state-using inexpensive toys and common household items like balloons, paper bags, Silly Putty, facial tissues, and plastic Easter eggs. Classroom-tested and proven effective, these activities draw students in with toys, gadgetry, fun-to-do experiments, and observations of scientific phenomena in everyday events. Students will see solid rock candy form as a sugar solution evaporates; inflate a balloon using dry ice; and use the BedBugs game to learn about the behavior of solids, liquids, and gases. You'll find 24 motivating, reproducible projects in all-ready to use and clearly referenced to the National Science Education Standards, with comprehensive materials lists, procedures, content review, and extension activities included. Teaching Science with TOYS is an activity-based, discovery-oriented approach developed by National Science Foundation-funded teacher training programs at Miami University of Ohio. The programs promote toys and household items as ideal science materials because they're already a user-friendly, everyday part of a young person's world.
This 290-page instructor version for Building Student Safety Habits for the Workplace includes the complete student text, plus strategies to build a safety culture in the classroom. Through background discussions, exercises, and investigations, college students and employed technicians prepare for the workplace by becoming familiar with regulatory issues and building safety knowledge and skills.
Build kids' science process skills through enjoyable hands-on activities with motivating holiday themes. Classroom-tested, and developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, this book uses inexpensive toys, food, and everyday household objects to make projects for celebrations from around the world. 100 Illustrations.
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