Elementary NSTA Press and NSTA Recommends Books on Measurement

In addition to these fine selections, NSTA offers many other books; to learn more, visit http://store.nsta.org.

Stepping Up to Science and Math

Grades K–8

Stepping Up to Science and Math invites you to step back and rethink the way you teach both of these essential subjects. Then it illustrates how you can step up the pace with Standards-based activities that make learning more effective and efficient. (You can even step outside the ordinary with new lessons featuring gummy worms, school buses, or the planet Mars.)

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How Tall, How Short, How Far Away

Grades K–4

Measurement made simple: That’s what children get from this bright book of stories and pictures on the concepts behind customary and metric systems. In addition to giving today’s kids the skills to answer the questions the title asks, this book also makes the history of measurement interesting (how did Egyptians use their fingers, hands, and arms for measuring?). Selected by the Children’s Book Council and NSTA as one of the Outstanding Science Trade Books for 2001.

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How to... Teach Measurements in Elementary School Science

Grades K–8

Measure up: This booklet focuses on the importance of communicating information. Hands-on activities help teachers guide students to a greater understanding of measurement, the metric system, and standardized units.

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http://store.nsta.org/showItem.asp?product=PB038X7

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