* 16 squishy, squashy activities with sponges, including matching, sorting, sponge printing, and soaking up water * Based on the four phases of the learning cycle: awareness, exploration, inquiry, and application * Cross-curricular activities in literature, drama, writing, art, biology, and cooking * Information for teachers on early childhood process skills, learning cycles, and inquiry-based science * Ages 3-6 Big Science for Little Hands Features: * Provides the foundation for a lifetime of science learning both in and out of school * Helps preschool-age children develop developmentally-appropriate process skills such as observing, communicating, comparing, measuring, and organizing * Provides experiences with materials and events from childrens' everyday world * Reinforces prior knowledge and offers new information to build upon that knowledge

Squishy, Squashy Sponges: Early Childhood Science Guide for Teachers (Big Science for Little Hands)

Education & Teaching

Hogue, Lynn

Gertz, Susan

Kutsunai, Beverly

Schools & Teaching

Terrific Science Pr

Your students have inquiring minds- Help them to discover physics! The first edition of Teaching Physics with TOYS brought fun and learning to thousands of classrooms. Now, the completely revised Teaching Physics with TOYS-EASYGuide Edition provides new activities in collaboration with K'NEX® Education, along with many new features to guide and support science inquiry in your classroom. • 22 hands-on investigations for grades 3-9 make physics principles fun and easy to teach! Students use common toys to explore inertia, kinetic energy, laws of motion, and many more physics principles. • Simple step-by-step teaching notes and online access to reproducible and customizable student pages save you time preparing and teaching lessons. • K'NEX pieces - used to build assorted levers and pulley systems, balances,crank fans, tops, cars, and more - are a fun and economical alternative to single-use equipment. • Connections to National Science Education Standards are detailed for each activity.

Teaching Physics With Toys: Hands-on Investigations for Grades 3-9, Easyguide

Science & Math

Taylor, Beverley

Portman, Dwight

Physics

Whether you breathe it in, smear it on, drink it down, or wash it off...stuff in your environment can make you sick...or help you thrive. Part of the 5-book Strive to Thrive! series, this teen-friendly, magazine-style activity book challenges teens to explore important and timely hand hygiene issues that they confront in their daily lives including how germs spread, the truth about people's handwashing habits, and whether clean hands really keep you healthier. Lather Up! is designed to draw teen's families and friends into discussions on this important topic. Lather Up! includes hands-on activities (using readily available materials), magazine-style readings, thought-provoking questions, games and puzzles. A free companion website offers games, learning, and links to current news on drinking water. Lather Up! is also a fantastic supplement for middle and high school teachers of science or health who are looking for fresh materials to spice up their curriculum. A free web link provides National Science Education Standards connections. This high-quality resource was developed with the support of a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Institutes of Health.

Lather Up! Hand Washing Activity Handbook

Hershberger, Susan

Terrific Science Press

Whether you breathe it in, smear it on, drink it down, or wash it off..."stuff" in your environment can make you sick...or help you thrive. ------ Part of the 5-book Strive to Thrive! series, this teen-friendly, magazine-style activity book challenges teens to explore important and timely drinking water issues that they confront in their daily lives including why drinking water is essential and whether paying more for a famous name will get you water that's healthier, or better tasting. ------ Wet Your Whistle! is designed to draw teen's families and friends into discussions on this important topic. Wet Your Whistle! includes hands-on activities (using readily available materials), magazine-style readings, thought-provoking questions, games and puzzles. A free companion website offers games, learning, and links to current news on drinking water. ------ Wet Your Whistle! is also a fantastic supplement for middle and high school teachers of science or health who are looking for fresh materials to spice up their curriculum. A free web link provides National Science Education Standards connections. This high-quality resource was developed with the support of a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Institutes of Health.

Wet Your Whistle!: Drinking Water Activity Handbook (Strive to Thrive!)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Whether you breathe it in, smear it on, drink it down, or wash it off..."stuff" in your environment can make you sick...or help you thrive. ------ Part of the 5-book Strive to Thrive! series, this teen-friendly, magazine-style activity book challenges teens to explore important and timely indoor air issues that they confront in their daily lives including health risks due to dust mites, mold, and odorless gases. ------ Breathing Room! is designed to draw teen's families and friends into discussions on this important topic. Breathing Room! includes hands-on activities (using readily available materials), magazine-style readings, thought-provoking questions, games and puzzles. A free companion website offers games, learning, and links to current news on indoor pollution. ------ Breathing Room! is also a fantastic supplement for middle and high school teachers of science or health who are looking for fresh materials to spice up their curriculum. A free web link provides National Science Education Standards connections. This high-quality resource was developed with the support of a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) from the National Institutes of Health.

Breathing Room! Indoor Pollution Activity Handbook

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