Author: Robert E. Yager
Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn
Keywords: development, professional, practices, science, exemplary
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0873552563
ISBN-13: 9780873552561

This collection of 16 essays is ideal for staff development providers (university faculty, district supervisors, lead teachers, and principals) as well as preservice science methods instructors. Each essay describes a specific program designed to train current or future teachers to carry out the constructivist, inquiry-based approach of the Standards. These professional development programs are in universities and school districts around the country—from Florida to Alaska, in rural and urban areas, and in contexts ranging from summer institutes to on-site support programs. The essays in this

Authors:Marianne Krasny, Environmental Inquiry Team,
Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn
Keywords: inquiry, scientific, cornell, ecology, invasion
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2002-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0873552067
ISBN-13: 9780873552066

Strange intruders are invading our part of the world, threatening our environment and our economy. These newcomers and their impact on our ecological balance are the focus of Invasion Ecology, a new book that teaches students to investigate the behaviors of nonnative and native species. Studying real-life invaders such as purple loosestrife and Phragmites, students will learn about the links between biology and ecology -- and explore how scientists are fighting these aggressors with biological controls. The Teacher’s Edition explains how to guide highly sophisticated inquiry and conduct

Author: Nancy Trautmann
Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn
Keywords: dynamics, watershed
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0873552059
ISBN-13: 9780873552059

Authors:Fred Chan, Pinchas Tamir, Carol Lenhardt, Rodney L. D
Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn
Keywords: assessment, 145x2, laboratory, guide, educator, science
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2002-04
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0873552105
ISBN-13: 9780873552103

By Rodney Doran, Fred Chan, Pinchas Tamir, and Carol Lenhardt. Here is an indispensable guide that will help you accurately assess students’ progress in science. Keyed to the NSE Standards, this resource provides over 40 sample assessment activities with reproducible task sheets. 264 pages. Grades 5 and up.

Authors:Rebecca L. Schneider, Marianne E. Krasny, Stephen J.
Publisher: Natl Science Teachers Assn
Keywords: conservation, ecology, exploring, herpetology, hands
Number of Pages: 146
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0873551974
ISBN-13: 9780873551977

Authors:Nancy M. Trautmann, William S. Carlsen, Marianne E
Publisher: Natl Science Teachers A
Keywords: guide, student, teachers, risk, toxic, assessing
Number of Pages: 50
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0873551966
ISBN-13: 9780873551960

Assessing Toxic Risk is a comprehensive guide to student research in toxicology. It includes an overview of basic principles of toxicology and how they are used to assess chemical risks. It provides simple but authentic research protocols to engage students in the process of testing chemical toxicity by conducting bioassays using lettuce seeds, duckweed, and Daphnia. It also contains guidelines for integrating peer review and other collaborative knowledge-building into classroom science. Toxicology makes an ideal topic for student research because it provides a natural link between biology, ch

Author: Karen A. Bosch
Publisher: Natl Education Assn
Keywords: confidence, teaching, teacher, year, first
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0810620146
ISBN-13: 9780810620148

Every beginning teacher needs a guide, and what better guide than NEA’s best-selling book, The First-Year Teacher? Written by experienced teachers and just revised--with 24 brand-new pages of material--this book offers daily step-by-step plans for the critical first four weeks of school. New teachers will also find plenty of tips for communicating with parents, scripts for parent-teacher conferences, time-saving strategies for dealing with mounds of paperwork, solutions to common discipline problems, and activities to acclimate elementary and middle school students to the new classroom.