Confounded by kinetic energy? Suspect that teaching about simple machines isn t really so simple? Exasperated by electricity? If you fear the study of energy is beyond you, this entertaining book will do more than introduce you to the topic. It will help you actually understand it. At the book s heart are easy-to-grasp explanations of energy basics work, kinetic energy, potential energy, and the transformation of energy and energy as it relates to simple machines, heat energy, temperature, and heat transfer. Irreverent author Bill Robertson suggests activities that bring the basic concepts of energy to life with common household objects. Each chapter ends with a summary and an applications section that uses practical examples such as roller coasters and home heating systems to explain energy transformations and convection cells. The final chapter brings together key concepts in an easy-to-grasp explanation of how electricity is generated. Energy is the second book in the Stop Faking It! series published by NSTA Press. Titles in the series are written with clarity, creative flair, and special empathy for science teachers and parents in search of a stress-free way to learn the basics.

Energy (Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach It)

William C. Robertson

Science & Math

NSTA Press

Muddled about what makes music? Stuck on the study of harmonics? Dumbfounded by how sound gets around? Now you no longer have to struggle to teach concepts you really don t grasp yourself. Sound takes an intentionally light touch to help out all those adults science teachers, parents wanting to help with homework, home-schoolers seeking necessary scientific background to teach middle school physics with confidence. The book introduces sound waves and uses that model to explain sound-related occurrences. Starting with the basics of what causes sound and how it travels, you'll learn how musical instruments work, how sound waves add and subtract, how the human ear works, and even why you can sound like a Munchkin when you inhale helium. Sound is the fourth book in the award-winning Stop Faking It! Series, published by NSTA Press. Like the other popular volumes, it is written by irreverent educator Bill Robertson, who offers this Sound recommendation: One of the coolest activities is whacking a spinning metal rod to create a wah-wah effect. It s a simple activity, the explanation incorporates several interesting properties of sound. This activity is in Chapter 5. I suggest you try it and see!

Sound: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach It

Robertson, William C.

Physics

How can we decide what concentration of arsenic is acceptable in public drinking water? What does it mean to say that Vitamin D is a highly toxic chemical? How can we balance the risks of spraying pesticides versus the risks of insect-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus, Lyme Disease, or Malaria? Students discover the answers to these intriguing questions and more by delving into the Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series: Assessing Toxic Risk, Student Edition. It includes five chapters of background text on the basic concepts of toxicology. Also included are planning forms, presentation guidelines, and peer review forms that guide students through self-designed research projects that encourage critical thinking. This integrated approach allows students to discover firsthand the natural links between biology, chemistry, environmental science, and human health.

Assessing Toxic Risk, Student's edition (Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series)

Medical Books

Trautmann, Nancy M.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Assessing Toxic Risk, Teacher Edition (Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series)

Earth Sciences

It's a simple fact: To do your best with linguistically and culturally diverse students, you need a strong foundation in how best to teach both science and language. That's why you need Science for English Language Learners. This comprehensive guide will expand your expertise in teaching science content and processes, in language development and literacy, and in inquiry-based teaching. Plus it will help you integrate best practices from the very different but highly complementary fields of science education and English language teaching. Designed so you can easily dip in and out of the topics you need most, Science for English Language Learners is divided into four sections: 1. An overview of major themes, principles, and practices that science and English teaching share 2. Practical classroom strategies for planning, teaching, assessing, and extending learning 3. Models for lesson and curriculum development from both language and science educators 4. Helpful context, including an overview of science and English-as-a-second-language standards; research and instructional practices; and ways to integrate science, language, and literacy Useful appendixes cover safety considerations for the ELL teacher, websites of pertinent organizations, and a glossary. Each of the 10 chapters is coauthored by experienced science and language educators who recognize the importance of interdisciplinary teaching.

Science for English Language Learners: K-12 Classroom Strategies

Fathman, Ann K.

Crowther, David T.

Available for Pre-order. This publication will be released in OCTOBER 2016 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. Several unique features make Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School a valuable resource: Lessons integrate all aspects of literacy reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. The texts are relevant nonfiction, including trade books, newspaper and magazine articles, online material, infographics, and even videos. A learning-cycle framework helps students deepen their understanding with data collection and analysis before reading about a concept. Ten investigations support current standards and encompass life, physical, and Earth and space sciences. Units range from Chemistry, Toys, and Accidental Inventions to Thermal Energy: An Ice Cube s Kryptonite! The authors have made sure the book is teacher-friendly. Each unit comes with scientific background, a list of common misconceptions, an annotated text list, safety considerations, differentiation strategies, reproducible student pages, and assessments. This middle school resource is a follow-up to the authors award-winning Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers for grades 3 5, which one reviewer called very thorough, and any science teacher s dream to read. The book will change the way you think about engaging your students in science and literacy.

Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers in Middle School: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Litera

Fries-Gaither, Jessica

Shiverdecker, Terry

Children's Books

Problem: You re eager to expand your physics curriculum and engage your students with engineering content but you don t know how. Solution: Use the approach and lessons in Beyond the Egg Drop to infuse engineering into what you re already teaching, without sacrificing time for teaching physics concepts. In addition to a thorough discussion on the rationale, justification, meaning, and implementation of integrating engineering into your science curriculum, this book provides 24 flexible, engineering-infused physics lessons that cover mechanics, optics, electricity, and thermodynamics. Lessons also include examples of student work; incorporate strategies for assessment, teaching, and student learning; and connect to A Framework for K 12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. And like the venerable egg-drop experiment, these are classroom-tested lessons that are designed to truly engage your students. You can tell your students will tune in from the lesson titles from Bumper Cars to Zombie Apocalypse Flashlight. Developed as part of Project Infuse, a National Science Foundation study, the lessons in Beyond the Egg Drop will make it easier to include engineering concepts and skills without having to restructure your existing physics

College Pathwasys to the Science Education Standards: Infusing Engineering Into High School Physics

Eisenkraft, Arthur

Freake, Shu-Yee Chen

How can your science department become a site for developing science teachers' professional learning? Building the Science Department answers that question through stories from teachers who walk the sometimes rocky path of reforming science teaching and learning.

Building the Science Department: Stories of Success

Jones, Doug

Melville, Wayne

Campbell, Todd

Science for Kids

Available for Pre-order. This publication will be released in NOVEMBER 2016 Now your students can transform their mobile phones and tablets into tools for learning about everything from weather to water quality. Big Data, Small Devices shows you how. This book is designed for Earth and environmental science teachers who want to help students tap into, organize, and deploy large data sets via their devices to investigate the world around them. Using the many available websites and free apps, students can learn to detect patterns among phenomena related to the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and seasons. Written by veteran teachers, Big Data, Small Devices is organized into two major parts. It covers tools that help you both find real-time data and understand what to do with the data. Then, the authors provide sample app-based activities that you can use as written or adapt to your specific needs. These days, opportunities to learn are as close as your students personal technology. As the authors of Big Data, Small Devices note, Allowing students to conduct investigations using their smart phone in app-based activities allows them to be more engaged in science investigations.

Connecting with Nature: Investigating the Natural World Using Real-Time Data

Eric Brunsell

Michael Bowen

Donna Governor

What makes a windup toy get up and go? How does an earbud operate? And why does the line you re waiting in always seem the slowest? Get middle-schoolers engaged in the fascinating science behind familiar items with More Everyday Engineering. Like Everyday Engineering, this compilation brings together activities based on the Everyday Engineering columns from NSTA s award-winning journal Science Scope. Thirteen hands-on investigations focus on three aspects of engineering: designing and building, reverse engineering to learn how something works, and constructing and testing models. Like the original collection, this book is easy to use. Each investigation is a complete lesson that includes in-depth teacher background information, expected sample data, a materials list, and a student activity sheet for recording results. The activities use simple, inexpensive materials you can find in your science classroom or at a dollar store. Whether you re a teacher, parent, or enrichment-program leader, go beyond the usual bridge-building and egg-drop activities. Spark curiosity with appealing activities that will help middle schoolers understand that engineering truly is a part of their everyday lives.

More Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning

Moyer, Richard H.

Everett, Susan A.

Experiments, Instruments & Measurement

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