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Here's Your Chance to Own NSTA's Best Sellers!
Change your classroom with NSTA's best-selling book series. Spanning a broad range of topics and disciplines, NSTA Press books can enhance your professional learning as well as provide you with classroom lessons to enrich your students' science education. From now until October 31, 2017, get free shipping on orders of $75 or more by entering SHIP17 at checkout.*
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Argument-Driven Inquiry Lab Investigations and Student Lab Manuals
Grades 6-12
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The goals of science education today include helping students not only understand important concepts but also learn to do science. One increasingly popular way to fully engage students in science practices and content is through argument-driven inquiry, an innovative approach to lab instruction and the focus of this series from NSTA Press. The emphasis in these engaging labs is on argumentation—the process of proposing, supporting, evaluating, and refining claims in the science classroom.
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| Each easy-to-use lab includes reproducible student pages, teacher notes, and checkout questions, and NSTA Press now offers accompanying Student Lab Manuals for all books in the Argument-Driven Inquiry series. With lab details, student handouts, and safety information, your students will be ready to start investigating. These manuals can be purchased individually or in sets of 10.
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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science Grades K-12
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Thousands of teachers have benefited from author Page Keeley's Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series to learn about their students' misconceptions and how to address them. Each book provides 25 or more formative assessment probes with easy-to-follow steps to help you promote learning through conceptual change instruction.
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| Keeley includes teacher materials that explain science content, identify links to standards, and suggest grade-appropriate ways to scaffold student learning of key science concepts. Learn how uncovering student ideas in science can tranform your teaching. Be sure to check out the newest book in the series, Uncovering Student Ideas in Earth and Environmental Science.
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Picture-Perfect Science Lessons Grades K-6
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Pairing science and reading is a simple but ingenious way to engage students—even the most reluctant readers. The Picture-Perfect Science series contains lessons, complete with student pages and assessments, that use picture books to guide science instruction.
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| Authors and science teachers Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan understand from personal experience that teachers are crunched for time and need high-interest, ready-to-use lessons that integrate literature, reading strategies, and science.
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Brain-Powered Science Grades 5-12
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Engaging your students' natural curiosity in science just got easier. The Brain-Powered Science series features 68 hands-on inquiry activities based on the science of a "discrepant event." Author Thomas O'Brien describes a discrepant event as an experiment or demonstration in which the outcome is not what students expect.
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| Each activity begins with a question such as, "What can a chocolate chip cookie tell you about the Earth's resources and the importance of environmental conservation?" Each chapter includes an introduction, an explanation of science concepts used, a materials list, teacher debriefing tools, safety notes, and additional internet resources.
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Gadgets & Gizmos Grades 3-12
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The popular Using Physical Science Gadgets & Gizmos series invites students to go beyond simply memorizing facts. Instead, they learn by experimenting with curiosity-piquing devices and doohickeys like Dropper Poppers, Flying Pigs, and Boomwhackers.
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| Authors Matthew Bobrowsky, Mikko Korhonen, and Jukka Kohtamki use the phenomenon-based learning (PBL) approach to encourage students to experience how gadgets work and then figure out why, all while discovering the fun in physics.
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Everyday Science Mysteries Grades K-8
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Everybody loves a good mystery, and thousands of teachers love how the Everyday Science Mysteries series gets students engaged in scientific exploration. Author Richard Konicek-Moran uses each mystery story to present opportunities for students to ask questions, form hypotheses, test ideas, and come up with explanations.
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| The stories are derived from everyday experiences ("The Crooked Swing" or "Oatmeal Bugs") that provide a foundation for discussion and investigation. As the author explains, "Science is all around us, and as we go through our daily routines, it often eludes us because—as the old saying goes—'The hidden we seek, the obvious we ignore.'"
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Stop Faking It! Grades 3-12
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Panicked over the periodic table? Queasy about equations? Puzzled by particle theory? The Stop Faking It! series is here to rescue you. Author Bill Robertson has been helping teachers develop a deeper understanding of scientific principles for many years. He uses fun examples and easy-to-understand language to teach in a stress-free way.
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| Robertson understands the needs of adults who want concrete examples, hands-on activities, clear language, diagrams, and a certain amount of empathy. His trademark wit and irreverence help dispel long-held fears so you can grasp scientific concepts with confidence. All books in the popular series are engagingly illustrated by Brian Diskin.
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More NSTA Press Resources The NSTA Recommends Fall catalog is organized by grade level to help you find resources tailored to your classroom needs. The catalog provides descriptions of each book, available formats, and prices, all linked to Science Store pages where you can read sample chapters.
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