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Making Sense of Science: Energy: For Teachers of Grades 6-8
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Wested
Publication date June 14, 2011
Pages 656
Binding Paperback
Edition Pck pap/cd
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780914409786
ISBN-10 0914409786
Dimensions 1.80 by 8.25 by 10.75 in.
Weight 4.75 lbs.
Original list price $249.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This comprehensive professional development course for grades 6–8 science teachers provides all the necessary ingredients for building a scientific way of thinking in teachers and students, focusing on science content, inquiry, and literacy. Teachers who participate in this course learn to facilitate hands-on science lessons, support evidence-based discussions, and develop students' academic language and reading and writing skills in science, along with the habits of mind necessary for sense making and scientific reasoning.

Energy for Teachers of Grades 6–8 consists of five core sessions:
    Session 1: What is Energy?

    Session 2: Potential Energy

    Session 3: Heat Energy

    Session 4: Conservation of Energy

    Session 5: Energy in Ecosystems

The materials include everything needed to effectively lead this course with ease:
  • Facilitator Guide with extensive support materials and detailed procedures that allow staff developers to successfully lead a course
  • Teacher Book with teaching, science, and literacy investigations, along with a follow-up component, Looking at Student Work™, designed to support ongoing professional learning communities
  • CD with black line masters of all handouts and charts to support group discussion and sense making, course participation certificates, student work samples, and other materials that can be reproduced for use with teachers


Editions
Hardcover
With Lynne Collins | Large print edition from Chivers North Amer (August 1, 1994); titled "Heart on Hold/Large Print"
9780263139808 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.95
This edition also contains Heart on Hold/Large Print
Paperback
Book cover for 9780201567724 Book cover for 9780914409786 Book cover for 9780914409861
 
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Pck pap/cd edition from Wested (June 14, 2011)
9780914409786 | details & prices | 656 pages | 8.25 × 10.75 × 1.80 in. | 4.75 lbs | List price $249.95
About: This comprehensive professional development course for grades 6–8 science teachers provides all the necessary ingredients for building a scientific way of thinking in teachers and students, focusing on science content, inquiry, and literacy.
Pap/cdr tc edition from Wested (June 14, 2011); titled "Making Sense of Science: Energy for Teachers of Grades 6-8: Energy for Teachers of Grades 6-8"
9780914409861 | details & prices | 440 pages | 8.25 × 10.50 × 1.25 in. | 3.20 lbs | List price $59.95
About: Proven through more than a decade of rigorous research to be effective with both teachers and students, Making Sense of SCIENCE helps teachers gain a deep and enduring understanding of tricky science topics, think and reason scientifically, and support content literacy in science, thereby increasing student achievement.
With Philip Mattera | Reprint edition from Addison-Wesley (September 1, 1991); titled "Prosperity Lost"
9780201567724 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $10.95
This edition also contains Prosperity Lost

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