Book+Resources

Here is a list of books that could help with your science instruction:

Like three guides in one, //Scientific Argumentation in Biology//combines theory, practice, and biological content. It provides 30 activities you can use when teaching students how to propose, support, and evaluate claims; validate or refute them on the basis of scientific reasoning; and craft complex written arguments. You'll find//Scientific Argumentation// to be an ideal way to help your students learn standards-based content, improve their practices, and develop scientific habits of mind.
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 * 30 Classroom Activities **
 * Grades 6–12 **


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1. **__//Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement//__** by Robert J. Marzano
 * This book helps define characteristics of effective vocabulary instruction.
 * It offers a six-step process for direct instruction in vocabulary in each discipline.
 * Readers will learn vocabulary terms critical to students' success in the science classroom.

2. **__//Questions Claims and Evidence//__** by Lori Norton-Meier, Brian Hand, Lynn Hockenberry, and Kim Wise
 * This will help with getting students interested in science, improve their analysis skills, and boost their science writing skills.

3.**//__Once Upon a Life Science Book-12 Interdisciplinary Activities to Create Confident Readers__//** by Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
 * This book will make it easier for teachers to improve their students' reading abilities and teach science content simultaneously through clearly outlined, inquiry based lessons.

4. **__//More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons//__** (K-4)- by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
 * //__Picture-Perfect Science Lessons__//** (3-6) -by Karen Rohrich Ansberry and Emily Morgan
 * //__Picture-Perfect Science Lessons__//** (Expanded 2nd Edition) by Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
 * These books will help teachers integrate science and reading in a natural way. Great resource for inquiry based science learning!

5. **__//Uncovering Student Ideas in Science//__**-using formative assessment probes Volumes 1-4 - by Page Keeley, Francis Eberle, and Joyce Tugel
 * Helps teachers pinpoint what their students know and address misconceptions while teaching content specific lessons.

6. Exemplary Science for Building Interest in STEM Careers by Robert E. Yager (NSTA Press)

This award-winning series integrates reading, science, and inquiry in one complete package by combining the appeal of children’s picture books with Standards-based science content. Each lesson contains student pages, assessments, and a guide science instruction.
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**SET** **Member Price**: $42.36 **Nonmember Price**: $52.95 ||  || The authors not only explain how to use their framework but also provide a variety of tools and examples of its application on four hard-to-teach foundational concepts: the flow of energy and matter in ecosystems, force and motion, matter and its transformation, and Earth’s shape. Both preservice and inservice elementary school teachers will find this approach appealing, and the authors’ engaging writing style and user-friendly tables help educators adapt the method with ease. This collection of essays outlines creative and inexpensive ways for preK through fifth-grade science teachers to keep their expenses to a minimum. Chapters provide inexpensive alternatives to costly classroom projects, offer re-imagined uses for items teachers already have at home or school, and suggest new and untapped resources for materials. The 20 discovery-based and academically rigorous activities provided in this volume enrich students’ awareness of the world around them, encourage their natural curiosity, and promote the development of their problem-solving skills. The lessons—such as "Digging Into Soil", "Exploring the Mysteries of Fingerprints", and "What Makes a Boat Float?"—use only inexpensive and easily accessible materials. Each includes a list of needed materials, a step-by-step procedure, discussion questions, and assessment techniques.
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