Young
Scientist Series: Exploring Water With Young Children Elementary NSTA Press and NSTA Recommends Books on Investigating Water
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The following titles relate to the theme of this month's issue: Investigating Water
Young
Scientist Series: Exploring Water With Young Children
NSTA Recommends
Grades K–12
Exploring Water with Young Children will guide you in focusing your children’s explorations in a way that will deepen their understanding of liquids and the properties of water. Key concepts addressed include water flow, appearance, and effect on objects. Activities range from experimenting at the water table to exploring water in nature. Exploring Water’s four chapters will help you encourage children to develop inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing, and formulating ideas and theories.
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Air, Water, and Weather: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You
Can Teach It
NSTA Press
Grades K–8
Thunderstruck by storm fronts? Perplexed about air pressure? Hazy on how weather works? If you’ve always been shaky on the science behind such phenomena, Air, Water, and Weather will help you develop a deep understanding of the basics so you can teach without fear. Best-selling author Bill Robertson acts as your friendly guide, bringing both wisdom and wit to the study of water. He starts with basic properties of air and water. You’ll learn about pressure, the Coriolis force, the Bernoulli Effect, and density and discover why hot air doesn’t rise all by itself and why heating air doesn’t necessarily cause it to expand. These concepts form a foundation for explanations of weather patterns, including the jet stream, storm fronts, and the formation of tornadoes and hurricanes. Air, Water, and Weather is the sixth book in the award-winning Stop Faking It! series published by NSTA Press. It offers all the features readers have come to love: accurate explanations, irreverent drawings, and activities that use easy-to-find materials. As usual, Robertson avoids memorization for its own sake—no need to commit cloud types to memory!—and makes learning a mostly sunny experience.
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Young
Scientists Series: Discovering Nature with Young Children
NSTA Recommends
Grades K–5
From indoor terrarium and planting projects to outdoor animal searches and habitat discussions, this book shows you how to prepare yourself and your classroom for hands-on science inquiry. Discovering Nature guides children through science explorations while demonstrating observation and assessment strategies. Students will gain skills that will assist them in documenting their own learning. Five detailed chapters cover a variety of ways in which your preschoolers can develop scientific reasoning processes such as hypothesis, inference, prediction, and estimation, as well as crucial math, language, and literacy skills.
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