This book is a teacher's resource that provides complete instructions and teaching techniques for teaching chemistry principles through simple activities that use popular children's toys like Silly Putty, balloons, crayons, paints, Magic Sand, Dinosaur Grow Beasts, and others. The activities are grouped by appropriate grades, i.e., K-3, 4-6, and 7-9. Each activity provides the teacher with a list of key science topics.

Teaching Chemistry with Toys: Activities for Grades K-9

Children's Books

Sarquis, Mickey

Williams, John P.

Sarquis, Jerry L.

Terrific Science Press

Science, Nature & How It Works

McGraw=Hill

Provides experiments and lesson plans for teachers that demonstrate such concepts as energy of motion, stored energy, and energy conservation

Exploring Energy with Toys: Complete Lessons for Grades 4-8

Taylor, Beverley A. P.

National Science Foundation

Literature & Fiction

Suggests science experiments suitable for holidays, birthdays, and the four seasons

Science Projects for Holidays Throughout the Year

Hogue, Lynn

Woodward, Linda

The only teacher's resource of its kind, this book was developed by Terrific Science Press, the publication arm of the Center for Chemical Education environmental issues surrounding waste management. Providing quality teacher-tested materials, consistent with the National Standards for Science Education, this book includes motivating lessons and activities that will build middle-schoolers' science process skills, while promoting awareness of complex environmental issues, including recycling, waste-related illness, source reduction, and more. Perfect for home or school, Understanding Garbage and Our Environment keeps students interested and involved, prompting them to come up with their own solutions to the continuing challenge of where to put our trash.

Understanding Garbage and Our Environment

Innovative investigations like these will empower middle and high school students to explore the states of matter and changes of state - using inexpensive toys and common household items like balloons, paper bags, Silly Putty®, facial tissues, and plastic Easter eggs. Classroom-tested and proven effective, these activities draw students in with toys, gadgetry, fun-to-do experiments, and observations of scientific phenomena in everyday events. Students will see solid rock candy form as a sugar solution evaporates; inflate a balloon using dry ice; and use the BedBugs® game to learn about the behavior of solids, liquids, and gases. You'll find 24 motivating, reproducible projects in all - ready to use and clearly referenced to the National Science Education Standards, with comprehensive materials lists, procedures, content review, and extension activities included. Teaching Science with TOYS is an activity-based, discovery-oriented approach developed by National Science Foundation-funded teacher training programs at Miami University of Ohio. The programs promote toys and household items as ideal science materials because they're already a user-friendly, everyday part of a young person's world.

Investigating Solids, Liquids, and Gases with Toys: States of Matter and Changes of State - Activities for Middle and High School Grades

Science & Math

Chemistry

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