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Creating a STEM Culture's wide-ranging topics include why STEM matters, what STEM networks do, how to build community buy-in for STEM, what makes school-business STEM partnerships work, and what STEM means for teachers, learning, and assessment. Each chapter is sprinkled with light-hearted case studies that complement the topic at hand.

"If you've been trying to figure out how crosscutting concepts (CCCs) fit into three-dimensional learning, this in-depth resource will show you their usefulness across the sciences. Crosscutting Concepts: Strengthening Science and Engineering Learning is designed to help teachers at all grade levels (1) promote students' sensemaking and problem-solving abilities by integrating CCCs with science and engineering practices and disciplinary core ideas; (2) support connections across multiple disciplines and diverse contexts; and (3) use CCCs as a set of lenses through which students can learn about the world around them. The book is divided into the following four sections. Foundational issues that undergird crosscutting concepts. You'll see how CCCs can change your instruction, engage your students in science, and broaden access and inclusion for all students in the science classroom. An in-depth look at individual CCCs. You'll learn to use each CCC across disciplines, understand the challenges students face in learning CCCs, and adopt exemplary teaching strategies. Ways to use CCCs to strengthen how you teach key topics in science. These topics include the nature of matter, plant growth, and weather and climate, as well as engineering design. Ways that CCCs can enhance the work of science teaching. These topics include student assessment and teacher professional collaboration. Throughout the book, vignettes drawn from the authors' own classroom experiences will help you put theory into practice. Instructional Applications show how CCCs can strengthen your planning. Classroom Snapshots offer practical ways to use CCCs in discussions and lessons. No matter how you use this book to enrich your thinking, it will help you leverage the power of CCCs to strengthen students' science and engineering learning. As the book says, "CCCs can often provide deeper insight into phenomena and problems by providing complementary perspectives that both broaden and sharpen our view on the rapidly changing world that students will inherit.""--

Have you been wondering how well your students understand engineering and technology concepts? Have you been wishing for formative assessment tools in both English and Spanish? If so, this is the book for you.

How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy - even while we're sleeping - to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high school students to explore fascinating questions like these.

A one-stop resource that will inspire you to reimagine how you teach science in elementary school. The book discusses two popular approaches for structuring your lessons: POE (Predict, Observe, and Explain) and 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate).

Show your students how amazing it can be to just ""see what will happen"" when they blend biology, engineering, and serendipity. Focusing on innovations sparked by accidental or unexpected observations, the case studies in this resource are a lively way to integrate engineering and experimentation into your biology classes.

If you've ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units grounded in challenge-based learning and the engineering design process.

Get rave reviews for science by putting this book's step-by-step plans to work. Staging Family Science Nights is your playbook for creating an informal learning environment that will generate enthusiasm and enjoyment of science among the entire family.

These 15 field-tested lessons cover energy, waves and their application in technologies for information transfer, molecules and organisms, and Earth's place in the universe and systems. Students will explore questions ranging from how you can make an electrical car move faster to why big waves block the entrance to some New Zealand harbours.

Provides how-to advice that will make this book a go-to resource. It offers six standards-based lessons that show how to infuse engineering concepts into existing courses. The book also provides wide-ranging material from each of the major content areas in biological sciences, including structures and processes, ecosystems and biological evolution.

This uses science journalism techniques to help students become better consumers of, and contributors to, a scientifically literate community. It is divided into three parts: background information and a rationale for using science journalism techniques; concrete advice about how to teach science literacy in this framework; and the process of putting together and writing a news story.

What is it really like to plunge into the world of science learning and teaching? Find out in this unique book. Dive In! provides detailed examples of how veteran teachers and their students can make the leap to implementing the recommendations of A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Discusses the secrets to successful grant writing. Formatted as a handy workbook, this practical book takes you step by step through the writing process. You'll learn the top 10 reasons to write a grant proposal, how to identify and refine proposal ideas, the basic components of every proposal, the ins and outs of submitting a proposal, and how to manage a funded project.

Great news for multitasking middle school teachers: Science educators Terry Shiverdecker and Jessica Fries-Gaither can help you blend inquiry-based science and literacy instruction to support student learning and maximize your time. This middle school resource is a follow-up to the authors' award-winning Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers for grades 3-5.

Offers more than three dozen hands-on, inquiry-based activities on many fascinating aspects of solar astronomy. The activities cover the Sun's motions, space weather caused by the Sun, the measuring of time and seasons in our daily lives, and much more. The authors are award-winning experts in both astronomy and science education.

What happens when two friends take an interest in an oak tree? They begin to notice more about the world around them, such as the seasons changing and squirrels making homes. As warm and dreamy as a summer day, Our Very Own Tree will inspire readers to seek out their very own places in nature.

What if you could change the department-level factors that don't support teaching and learning? Explore answers to this fascinating question and many more with Reimagining the Science Department. The book invites you to reassess past and current practices in science departments as you rethink the future for teachers and students in your own science classrooms.

Guides children through six types of regions that are shaped by rainfall-or the lack thereof. Readers take a journey that starts with dense tropical rainforests and woodlands, travels through grassy savannahs and prairies, and ends at dry steppes and deserts. Throughout the book, attentive readers can compare how and why each region is alike and different.

Offers 39 new formative assessment probes, with a focus on electric charge, electric current, and magnets and electromagnetism. It can help you do everything from demystify electromagnetic fields to explain the real reason balloons stick to the wall after you rub them on your hair. Like the other eight popular books in this series, Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 2 provides a collection of engaging questions, or formative assessment probes.

By using children's books to pique students interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way. In this volume, authors Christine Royce, Karen Ansberry, and Emily Morgan selected 50 of their favourites, updated the lessons, and added student activity pages, making it easier than ever to teach fundamental science concepts through high-quality fiction and nonfiction children s books.

This first volume in the new series on physical science begins with one of the most challenging topics in physical science: force and motion. The 45 assessment probes in this book enable teachers to find out what students really think about key ideas in force and motion.

Demonstrates how to teach the understanding and thinking skills students need to explore real-world questions, such as: Should schools charge a "tax” to discourage kids from eating unhealthy foods? Should local governments lower speed limits to reduce traffic fatalities? At the core of the exploration is the Socioscientific Issues Framework. The framework gives students practice in the research, analysis, and argumentation necessary to build scientific literacy.