Nanoscale
Science: Exploring the World at the Smallest of Scales New High-School Books from NSTA Press
Nanoscale
Science: Exploring the World at the Smallest of Scales
Grades 9–12
Futurists predict that nanotechnology will be the next major scientific revolution—one with an even greater impact than the Industrial Revolution. Help middle and high school students understand the big implications of tiny technology with Nanoscale Science. Using guided inquiry with open-ended exploration where possible, the book’s 20 investigations teach students about the unique properties and behavior of materials at the nanoscale—one-billionth of the size of a meter. The activities are organized around five themes: scale, tools and techniques, unique properties and behaviors, nanotechnology applications, and societal implications. All activities use readily available materials and provide clear background, instructions, and formative assessments.
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Uncovering
Student Ideas in Science: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes, Volume 2
Grades K–12
If Hollywood were filming this sequel, the studio would call it Probes II: More Battles Against Bad Beliefs. Like the blockbuster that came before it, Volume 2 of Uncovering Student Ideas in Science will reveal the surprising misconceptions students bring to the classroom—allowing you to adjust your teaching to replace those ideas with a sound understanding of science.
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All
in a Day's Work: Careers Using Science (NSTA Press Journal Collection)
Grades 9–12
All in a Day's Work is a compendium of more than 30 of the popular “Career of the Month” columns from the NSTA high-school member journal The Science Teacher. Each column profiles people in science- related jobs and is designed to be reproduced and shared with your high-school students as they formulate future career and education plans. Included in each profile is a helpful information box that lists the education requirements for each job as well as explanatory websites and related careers.
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Garden
Genetics: Teaching With Edible Plants—Student Edition
Grades 9–12
Tired of teaching genetics concepts with the same old pink petunias and Mendel’s peas? With Garden Genetics, you can present core content in ways that are fun for students and fresh for you. This two-part set—a teacher edition and companion student edition—can be adapted for biology students at all levels, including Advanced Placement. It uses a series of activities and inquiry-based experiments with familiar foods to teach genetics while helping students make connections to ecology, evolution, plant biology, and even social science.
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Garden
Genetics: Teaching With Edible Plants—Teacher Edition
Grades 9–12
What makes Garden Genetics unique is its emphasis on modern food-plant-based situations. To learn about Punnett’s squares, for example, students taste variations in bitterness in cucumber seedlings, then design experiments investigating the surprising role that bitterness plays in protecting plants from insects. To learn about plant breeding, students re-enact a trial in which farmers sued seed companies to compensate for $1 billion in U.S. corn-crop losses caused by genetic uniformity. Designed to be flexible, each chapter may be taught as a unit, or you can teach the book as a whole.
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Assessment
in Science: Practical Experiences and Education Research
Grades K–12
If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-date reports was written by practicing K–12 classroom teachers and university-based educators and researchers. Working in teams, they tried out and evaluated different assessment approaches in actual classrooms. The research is sound, but that doesn’t mean it’s hard to grasp. The book stays true to its title by capturing practical lessons in accessible language.
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If
You Build It, They Will Learn: 17 Devices for Demonstrating Physical Science
Grades 5–12
If You Build It, They Will Learn is the perfect do-it-yourself guide for physics teachers seeking custom-made demonstration projects to use in their classrooms. Devices like Galileo’s Track, Coupled Pendulum, and Gum-Wrapper Thermostat will help you teach about forces, energy, properties of matter, and much more. Best of all, you don’t need an engineering degree to assemble these devices. The book provides such detailed instructions that even novices can handle the necessary tasks and tools.
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Science
Safety in the Community College
College Level
When it comes to practicing safer science, community-college teachers face double trouble. They must establish a sound safety foundation for students with widely differing science backgrounds, while often these instructors are adjuncts without a permanent home base on campus. Science Safety in the Community College can help them overcome these twin challenges while encouraging inquiry in a climate of safety. Science Safety especially emphasizes what works in introductory science courses and for new students.
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