Our proven Spectrum Science grade 5 workbook features 144 pages of fundamentals in science learning. Developed to current national science standards, covering all aspects of fifth grade science education. This workbook for children ages 10 to 11 includes exercises that reinforce science skills across the different science areas. Science skills include: • Safe Science Practices • Electromagnetism • Diversity and Adaptation • Structure of Earth • Technological Evolution • Resource Conservation • Science History Our best-selling Spectrum Science series features age-appropriate workbooks for grade 3 to grade 8. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in science fundamentals to ensure successful learning!

Product Description: Cultivate a love for science by providing standards-based practice that captures children’s attention. Spectrum Science for grade 3 provides interesting informational text and fascinating facts about elements, compounds, irrigation, animal habitats, and the invention of radio...read more

Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. The activities open imaginative doors to learning and provide opportunities for all learners. It surveys today’s most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices. Questions, engagement, and curiosity are viewed as natural partners for mathematical problem solving, scientific inquiry, and learning about technology. Like the Common Core State Standards, the book builds on the social nature of learning to provide suggestions for both eager and reluctant learners. The overall goal of the book is to deepen the collective conversation, challenge thinking, and provide some up-to-date tools for teachers so they can help reverse the steady erosion of math, science, and technology understanding in the general population.

Product Description: One of a series of three titles (Primary, Middle School and Secondary) that are standards-based materials and methods books for teaching science. Using The Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program, a middle school teacher can help students to: become confident in their knowledge of science, understand the content, solve problems, communicate their knowledge, and perform well on standardized tests...read more

Product Description: More than 50 percent of science lessons in today s elementary textbooks use visual information to help demonstrate concepts. With Developing Visual Learning in Science, K 8, educators can help their students develop skills in interpreting photographs, charts, diagrams, figures, labels, and graphic symbols...read more

Product Description: Our proven Spectrum Science grade 8 workbook features 176 pages of fundamentals in science learning. Developed to current national science standards, covering all aspects of eighth grade science education...read more

The companion DVD, which can be packaged with new copies of the text, includes video cases based on actual classroom footage, along with reflection questions that reinforce the student's learning experience.

Product Description: This book of 70 current readings is designed to supplement any geology textbook and is ideal for instructors who include a writing component in their course. The articles are from a number of general interest and science magazines (such as Discover, Science, New Scientist, Geotimes, and Nature) and the Citizens Guide to Geologic Hazards published by the American Institute of Professional Geologists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)