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1) Picture-perfect science lessons, expanded 2nd edition: using children's books to guide inquiry, 3-6
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Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan know elementary educators are usually crunched for science instructional time and could often use refresher explanations of scientific concepts. So the authors added comprehensive background notes to each chapter and included new reading strategies. They show exactly how to combine science and reading in a natural way with classroom-tested lessons in physical science, life science, and Earth and space...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Have you ever tried to get a better look at a monarch butterfly, but it fluttered away before you could get close enough? Now you can get a close-up look at monarch butterflies, including their wings, antennae, eyes, proboscis, and claws. Striking color photographs show the stages of the life cycle: egg, chrysalis, caterpillar, and butterfly. This fact-filled, full color book is ideal for early readers or read-aloud, and also supports the National...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Live action footage of animals in their natural habitats are combined with clips from Disney's animated films to introduce children to the world of animals. Each segment features a different animal, offering students detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle. Content is tied to K-3 National Science Education Standards.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Live action footage of animals in their natural habitats are combined with clips from Disney's animated films to introduce children to the world of animals. Each segment features a different animal, offering students detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle. Content is tied to K-3 National Science Education Standards.
6) Volcanoes
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Students get an closeup look at volcanoes and learn the difference between magma and lava. They are shown how a tilt meter is used to predict when a volcano might erupt, and are treated to a virtual visit to Horseshoe Lake at Mammoth Mountain.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Live action footage of animals in their natural habitats are combined with clips from Disney's animated films to introduce children to the world of animals. Each segment features a different animal, offering students detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle. Content is tied to K-3 National Science Education Standards. This DVD features segments on tigers and lions.
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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"Modern homes are filled with conveniences often taken for granted. But many of these appliances and creature comforts took years to grow into the forms we find so familiar today. Bill Nye explains the technology of the house and home. From plumbing and paints to microwave ovens and frozen foods, these advances have made life as we know it easier to manage."--Container.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Live action footage of animals in their natural habitats are combined with clips from Disney's animated films to introduce children to the world of animals. Each segment features a different animal, offering students detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle. Content is tied to K-3 National Science Education Standards. This DVD features segments on meerkats and warthogs....
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Live action footage of animals in their natural habitats are combined with clips from Disney's animated films to introduce children to the world of animals. Each segment features a different animal, offering students detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle. Content is tied to K-3 National Science Education Standards. This DVD features segments on penguins, seals and sea...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Designed to ensure a similar level of job and college preparedness for students from all backgrounds and regions, the Common Core standards have been adopted in 45 states from coast to coast. These new common standards are designed to bring many diverse state standards into alignment with each other in math and English to create a set of national educational standards. Common Core Standards For Parents For Dummies explains this new set of standards,...
12) Earthquakes
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Students discover how the underground movement of rocks, along with stresses on the Earth's crust, produces surface-level tremors. Learn how scientists determine where the hypocenter and epicenter of a quake occur while exploring the destructive power of seismic waves, and how seismologists predict where earthquakes will occur. A visit to the University of California at Berkeley showcases the use of a "shaker table" by engineers who design buildings,...
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Pub. Date
©2012
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English
Description
What Is Engineering?A Brief History of EngineeringEngineering as a ProfessionEngineering EducationStandards and CodesUse of Numbers in EngineeringElectrical Circuit ConceptsCharge, Current, Voltage, Power, and EnergyKirchhoff's LawsThe Ideal Circuit ElementsThe dc ModeThe ac ModeThe Periodic ModeThe Transient ModeA dc Application: An Automotive Electrical SystemAn ac Example Application: The U.S. Residential Electrical SystemElectrical EnergyNatural...
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2014.
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English
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"#1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the Common Core school curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail. As he did with the issue of gun control in his thoughtful and succinct #1 bestseller Control, Glenn Beck uncovers the politically motivated truth behind the continual failures of the American educational system and offers...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations...
16) The war on kids
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When victims of oppression are considered inherently inferior, little thought is given to the imposition of psychological abuse or the persistent and often capricious measures of establishing control. Even attitudes regarding physical punishment become morally blurred. While many documentaries have shed light on the chronic educational famine of the inner-city child, there has been no film to date that deals with the inescapable oppressive abuse that...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Live action footage of animals in their natural habitats are combined with clips from Disney's animated films to introduce children to the world of animals. Each segment features a different animal, offering students detailed information about the animal's habitat, living conditions, behavior, diet, survival techniques, and life cycle. Content is tied to K-3 National Science Education Standards.
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