High School NSTA Press and NSTA Recommends Books on Science, Technology, and Society
One-Minute
Readings: Issues in Science, Technology, and Society
Grades 5–12
Got a minute? Get a debate going with the help of these 80 brief essays on today’s toughest science questions, from the dollar value of a human life to the chances of creating a risk-free society. Great for stimulating students to consider a range of real-world problems related to your classwork.
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Clones,
Cats, and Chemicals: Thinking Scientifically About Controversial Issues
Grades 5–12
Clones, Cats, and Chemicals examines 10 dilemmas from the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, Earth science, technology, and mathematics and helps you challenge students to confront scientific and social problems that offer few black-and-white solutions. Each question is presented as a two-part unit: concise scientific background with possible resolutions and a reference list for further teacher reading, and a reproducible essay, questions, and activities to guide students in debating and decision making.
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New High School Books from NSTA Press
Quantoons
Grades 9–12
Finally: the perfect book for science and math buffs who crave both physics problems and captivating illustrations. Quantoons combines challenging problems and provocative quotes with intricate drawings that mix Isaac Newton and Marie Antoinette with Romeo, Juliet, and Einstein. The book is a compilation of 58 contest problems that ran between 1989 and 2001 in Quantum magazine, a collaboration between U.S. and Russian scientists that was published by NSTA.
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Virus and
the Whale: Exploring Evolution in Creatures Small and Large
Grades 5–12
With this lively book of activities as their guide, students can follow seven scientists into their labs and out to the field to discover how evolution works. Meanwhile, you’ll benefit from the practical help the book provides with the twin challenges of evolution: what to teach and how to teach it.
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Science
for English Language Learners: K–12 Classroom Strategies
Grades K–12
It’s a simple fact: To successfully teach 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 the teaching of science content and processes, in language development and literacy, and in inquiry-based teaching.
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Teaching
Science in the 21st Century
Grades K–12
This collection of 21 provocative essays gives you a fresh look at today’s most pressing public policy concerns in science education, from how students learn science to the building of science partnerships to the ramifications of the No Child Left Behind legislation.
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Teaching With
Purpose: Closing the Research-Practice Gap
Grades K–12
This book helps you create and implement a detailed, research-based teaching rationale that works even with students of varied needs in less-than-ideal facilities. The key is a method that this book’s authors and their colleagues have used to help more than 3,000 preservice and inservice science teachers achieve improved results in their classrooms.
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Uncovering
Student Ideas in Science, Vol. 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes
Grades K–12
Before your students can discover accurate science, you need to uncover the preconceptions they already have. This book helps pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can monitor their learning and adjust your teaching accordingly.
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Exemplary
Science in Grades 9–12: Standards-Based Success Stories
Grades 9–12
In this collection of 15 essays, educators describe successful programs they’ve developed to fulfill the National Science Education Standards’ vision for the reform of teaching, assessment, professional development, and content at the high school level.
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Exemplary
Science: Best Practices in Professional Development
Grade: College
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.
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Teaching
High School Science Through Inquiry
Grades 9–12
Take a personal and professional journey to understanding inquiry-based instruction with Teaching High School Science Through Inquiry. This groundbreaking book draws from current research, case studies, and author Douglas Llewellyn’s own experience to help you create a complete plan for nurturing a culture of inquiry in grades 9–12.
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Science
Curriculum Topic Study
Grades K–12
Need help making the connection among science standards, teacher practice, and increased student achievement? Science Curriculum Topic Study is your missing link.
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AEOE of California - CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR OUTDOOR EDUCATORS
Science - Literature Links (Science Activities Linked to Literature Books)
Writing Prompts & Assessment (Center for Performance Assessment)
NSTA 2005 - Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12
Technology-Based Inquiry for Middle School
Evolution Resources (The National Academies)
Arkansas Textbook Publishers Association
"Teacher in the Air" - FREE - Send Request To: noaa-outreach@noaa.gov
Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium
Dawn Publications (Nature Topics)
GEMS (Great Explorations in Math and Science)
Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry - The Library
Literature for Children - Carol Hurst
How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice - Donovan, Bransford, Pellegrino
New Middle Level Books from NSTA Press
Nanoscale Science: Exploring the World at the Smallest of Scales
Grades 5–8
Futurists predict that nanotechnology will be the next major scientific revolution—one with an even greater impact than the Industrial Revolution. Help middle and high school students understand the big implications of tiny technology with Nanoscale Science. Using guided inquiry with open-ended exploration where possible, the book’s 20 investigations teach students about the unique properties and behavior of materials at the nanoscale—one-billionth of the size of a meter.
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Uncovering
Student Ideas in Science: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes, Volume 2
Grades K–12
If Hollywood were filming this sequel, the studio would call it Probes II: More Battles Against Bad Beliefs. Like the blockbuster that preceded it, Volume 2 of Uncovering Student Ideas in Science will reveal the surprising misconceptions students bring to the classroom—allowing you to adjust your teaching to replace those ideas with a sound understanding of science.
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Stop
Faking It! Chemistry Basics
Grades 5–8
Do the words “periodic table” send chills down your spine? Are you anxious about atomic structure? Confounded by chemical equations? Relax! The cure for chemistry confusion is within reach, courtesy of this newly available book in the Stop Faking It! series. Best-selling author Bill Robertson takes a fresh approach to chemistry fundamentals by helping you understand them from the ground up. Instead of hounding you to memorize the characteristics of atoms and the periodic table, Chemistry Basics will help you see those characteristics as a natural consequence of our understanding of atomic structure.
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Adventures
in Paleontology: 36 Classroom Fossil Activities
Grades 5–8
Millions of years after vanishing from the Earth, dinosaurs still have the power to stir students’ curiosity. Deepen that interest with Adventures in Paleontology, a series of lively hands-on activities especially for middle schoolers. This beautifully illustrated full-color book features 36 activities that introduce students to a range of foundational sciences, including biology, geology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy.
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Assessment
in Science: Practical Experiences and Education Research
Grades K–12
If you want the latest research about assessment techniques that really work, you want Assessment in Science. This collection of informative, up-to-date reports was written by practicing K–12 classroom teachers and university-based educators and researchers. Working in teams, they tried out and evaluated different assessment approaches in actual classrooms. The research is sound, but not hard to grasp. The book stays true to its title by capturing practical lessons in accessible language.
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If You
Build It, They Will Learn: 17 Devices for Demonstrating Physical Science
Grades 5–12
If You Build It, They Will Learn is the perfect do-it-yourself guide for physics teachers seeking custom-made demonstration projects to use in their classrooms. Devices like Galileo’s Track, Coupled Pendulum, and Gum-Wrapper Thermostat will help you teach about forces, energy, properties of matter, and much more. Best of all, you don’t need an engineering degree to assemble these devices. The book provides such detailed instructions that even novices can handle the necessary tasks and tools.
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Linking
Science and Literacy in the K–8 Classroom
Grades K–8
If you’ve ever believed you don’t have time to teach much science—or feared you don’t know how to integrate it with all-important language-arts lessons—this is the book that will change your thinking.
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Technology-Based
Inquiry for Middle School
Grades 5–8
Learn the ABCs of working with contemporary tools that will help you integrate technology-based inquiry into your classroom practices. Activities featured in this new compendium—a collection of 26 articles published in Science Scope, NSTA’s member journal for middle-school teachers—will show you how.
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Seamless
Assessment in Science: A Guide for Elementary and Middle School
Grades K–8
When you open your classroom to inquiry-based learning, you can no longer rely solely on traditional end-of-unit tests. Seamless Assessment is your one-stop guide to strategies that mirror the investigatory spirit. Working with the popular 5E model as an instructional framework, the authors have designed methods for embedding formative and summative assessment in any science unit. Thirteen vignettes from practicing teachers show how to make assessment not just a test, but also an opportunity for students to share what they learn in the life, physical, and Earth sciences. Aligned with the Standards and filled with research-based strategies, Seamless Assessment is so practical you’ll refer to it again and again.
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