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SCIENCE TEACHING METHODS

SCIENCE TEACHING METHODS


HABITABLE PLANET, THE: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

The Habitable Planet: A Systems Approach to Environmental Science is a course for high school teachers and undergraduate students in environmental science. The content course will help teachers of biology, chemistry, and Earth science to provide more content in their classes. The course components include 13 half-hour video programs, a coordinated Web site which includes the streamed video programs, the course text online, five interactive simulations, background on the scientists who created the content and those whose research is documented, a professional development guide (also available in print form), and additional resources. Graduate credit is available for the course through Colorado State University.

This course begins with an overview of the Earth's systems - geophysical, atmospheric, oceanic, and ecosystems - as they exist independently of human influence. Following this introduction, the course explores the effect that human activities have on the different natural systems. Topics include human population growth and resource use, increasing competition for fresh water, and climate change. Each of the 13 programs features two case studies following top scientists in the field.

30-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Many Planets, One Earth
2. Atmosphere
3. Oceans
4. Ecosystems
5. Human Population Dynamics
6. Risk, Exposure, and Health
7. Agriculture
8. Water Resources
9. Biodiversity Decline
10. Energy Challenges
11. Atmospheric Pollution
12. Earth's Changing Climate
13. Looking Forward: Our Global Experiment

Item no.: KN07940432
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 390 minutes
Audience: High School Teachers and College Level Instruction
Copyright: 2007
StdBkNo: 1576808831
Price: USD 994.00

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ESSENTIAL SCIENCE FOR TEACHERS: EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE

This course provides teachers with the background needed to teach standards-based curricula. Real-world examples, demonstrations, animations, still graphics, and interviews with scientists make up content segments, which are intertwined with in-depth interviews with children that uncover their ideas about each topic. Each program also features an elementary school teacher and his or her students using exemplary science curricula. Use the complete course for teacher education or professional development, or individual programs for content review.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Earth's Solid Membrane: Soil
2. Every Rock Tells a Story
3. Journey to the Earth's Interior
4. The Engine That Drives the Earth
5. When Continents Collide
6. Restless Landscapes
7. Our Nearest Neighbor: The Moon
8. Order out of Chaos: Our Solar System

Item no.: DD07940448
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers school teachers
Copyright: 2004
StdBkNo: 1576807428
Price: USD 720.00

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ESSENTIAL SCIENCE FOR TEACHERS: PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Physical Science consists of video programs accompanied by print and Web materials that provide in-class activities and homework explorations. Real-world examples, demonstrations, animations, still graphics, and interviews with scientists make up content segments, which are intertwined with in-depth interviews with children that uncover their ideas about each topic. Each program also features an elementary school teacher and his or her students using exemplary science curricula. Use the complete course for teacher education or professional development, or individual programs for content review.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. What Is Matter? Properties and Classification of Matter
2. The Particle Nature of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
3. Physical Changes and Conservation of Matter
4. Chemical Changes and Conservation of Matter
5. Density and Pressure
6. Rising and Sinking
7. Heat and Temperature
8. Extending the Particle Model of Matter

Item no.: WJ07940450
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Copyright: 2004
StdBkNo: 1576807495
Price: USD 720.00

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ESSENTIAL SCIENCE FOR TEACHERS: LIFE SCIENCE

Using real-world examples, demonstrations, animations, still graphics, and interviews with scientists, the programs provide content in each topic. Intertwined with the programs are in-depth interviews with children uncovering their ideas about each topic. Each program also features an elementary school teacher and his or her students working with exemplary science curricula. Use the complete course for teacher education or professional development, or individual programs for content review.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. What Is Life?
2. Classifying Living Things
3. Animal Life Cycles
4. Plant Life Cycles
5. Variation, Adaptation, and Natural Selection
6. Evolution and the Tree of Life
7. Energy Flow in Communities
8. Material Cycles in Ecosystems

Item no.: WU07940449
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Copyright: 2003
StdBkNo: 1576807304
Price: USD 720.00

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REACTIONS IN CHEMISTRY

Reactions in Chemistry is a professional development workshop for high school chemistry and physical science teachers. The workshop blends chemistry content, history, and technological applications with a range of classroom lessons to provide teachers with updated knowledge and new approaches to pedagogy. Teachers will see diverse classes doing hands-on lessons and labs and will hear teachers reflect on their own practice. The on-camera teachers meet in roundtable discussions about teaching strategies and the particular challenges of helping students connect the content to their own lives. The programs also present the work of industrial and forensic chemists and researchers.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Atoms and Molecules
2. Macro to Micro Structures
3. Energetics and Dynamics
4. Theory and Practice in Chemical Systems
5. Chemical Design
6. The Chemistry of Life
7. Chemistry and the Environment
8. Chemistry at the Interface

Item no.: ZV07940465
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: High School Teachers
Copyright: 2003
Price: USD 720.00

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REDISCOVERING BIOLOGY: MOLECULAR TO GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Great advances have been made in the field of biology in recent decades that will continue to have a major impact on our lives. Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives explains these developments for teachers of high school biology to update their content knowledge and understanding. The multimedia course materials-video, online text, interactive Web activities, and course guide-will help new and veteran biology teachers become familiar with current research methods and tools that will lead to new discoveries in the coming decades. Thirteen half-hour video programs feature interviews with expert scientists involved in groundbreaking research, such as Eric Lander of the MIT Genomics Center and Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation. Detailed animations provide a micro-level view of biological processes and techniques such as mass spectrometry and microarray analysis. Supporting and expanding the video content, the course guide and interactive Web site provide learning activities, additional information, a detailed glossary, annotated animations, and case studies that invite teachers to run their own mini research projects.

30-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Genomics
2. Proteins and Proteomics
3. Evolution and Phylogenetics
4. Microbial Diversity
5. Emerging Infectious Diseases
6. HIV and AIDS
7. Genetics of Development
8. Cell Biology and Cancer
9. Human Evolution
10. Neurobiology
11. Biology of Sex and Gender
12. Biodiversity
13. Genetically Modified Organisms

Item no.: SN07940436
Format: 4 DVDs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 390 minutes
Audience: High School Teachers
Copyright: 2003
StdBkNo: 1576807339
Price: USD 994.00

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SCIENCE IN FOCUS: ENERGY

Understanding the concept of energy is crucial to the comprehension of many ideas in physical science, Earth and space science, and life science. The video programs, print guide, and Web site of this workshop for elementary school teachers provide a solid foundation, distinguishing clearly between the way "energy" is commonly understood and its meaning in science. Examine energy's role in motion, machines, food, the human body, and the universe as a whole. Learn how energy can be converted from one form to another and transferred over space and time. And explore the notion of "conservation of energy"-the idea that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Return to the classroom with a new focus on the important concept of energy.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. What Is Energy?
2. Force and Work
3. Transfer and Conversion of Energy
4. Energy in Cycles
5. Energy in Food
6. Energy and Systems
7. Heat, Work, and Efficiency
8. Understanding Energy

Item no.: PA07940466
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Copyright: 2002
Price: USD 720.00

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JOURNEY NORTH

Journey North is an Internet-based adventure that engages students in investigations of wildlife migration and seasonal change. Each year, thousands of students and their teachers across North America come together to experience the annual cycle through observation, inquiry, research, and the sharing of data. This professional development video resource shows how to use Journey North in the classroom. Secondthrough seventh-grade classes participate in Journey North investigations.

15-MINUTE VIDEO MODULES
1. Introduction
2. Seasonal Migrations: Monarch Butterflies
3. Plants and the Seasons: Tulip Gardens
4. Sunlight and the Seasons: Mystery Class

Item no.: RF07940453
Format: DVD (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 60 minutes
Audience: Grades K-12
Copyright: 2001
StdBkNo: 1576803805
Price: USD 99.99

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SCIENCE IN FOCUS: FORCE AND MOTION

Explore science concepts in force and motion and come away with a deeper understanding-key to engaging your students in their own explorations. With science and education experts as guides, learn more about gravity, friction, air resistance, magnetism, and tension through activities, discussions, and demonstrations. Extensive footage shot in real classrooms shows students learning and building on ideas as they explore the relationships among motion, force, size, mass, and speed. Observe how students develop understanding through activities that connect science concepts to real-world phenomena.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Making an Impact
2. Drag Races
3. When Rubber Meets the Road
4. On a Roll
5. Keep On Rolling
6. Force Against Force
7. The Lure of Magnetism
8. Bend and Stretch

Item no.: LH07940467
Format: 4 DVDs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Copyright: 2001
StdBkNo: 1576804151
Price: USD 720.00

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LEARNING SCIENCE THROUGH INQUIRY

Inquiry-based teaching, central to the National Science Education Standards and the Benchmarks for Science Literacy, should not be an isolated occurrence, but a comprehensive and ongoing approach. To help teachers feel comfortable with this approach, the workshop shows inquiry teaching and learning in action, with real teachers and students in real classrooms. For teachers who have already experimented with inquiry teaching and want to enhance their practice or are new to the approach and want to know how to make it work, this workshop will show how to teach using inquiry and effective strategies to try in the classroom.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. What Is Inquiry and Why Do It?
2. Setting the Stage: Creating a Learning Community
3. The Process Begins: Launching the Inquiry Exploration
4. Focus the Inquiry: Designing the Exploration
5. The Inquiry Continues: Collecting Data and Drawing Upon Resources
6. Bring It All Together: Processing for Meaning During Inquiry
7. Assessing Inquiry
8. Connecting Other Subjects to Inquiry

Item no.: GC07940456
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Teachers
Copyright: 2000
StdBkNo: 1576803929
Price: USD 720.00

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TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE

Asking questions, making discoveries, gathering data, analyzing explanations, and communicating scientific arguments are key ingredients in a classroom where vibrant inquiry is taking place. The Teaching High School Science library will help new and veteran science teachers integrate national science standards and inquiry learning into their curricula. Showing science classrooms around the country, the modules cover topics in life science, physical science, Earth and space science, and integrated science. They also show a range of teaching techniques and student/teacher interaction.

INDIVIDUAL PROGRAMS
1. Introduction (10 min.)
2. Thinking Like Scientists (27 min.)
3. Chemical Reactions (46 min.)
4. Investigating Crickets (54 min.)
5. Exploring Mars (44 min.)
6. The Physics of Optics (55 min.)

Item no.: HL07940338
Format: 3 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 360 minutes
Audience: High School Teachers
Copyright: 2000
StdBkNo: 157680187X
Price: USD 521.00

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SCIENCE IN FOCUS: SHEDDING LIGHT ON SCIENCE

This workshop uses light as a theme to explore topics in physics, chemistry, biology, space science, and Earth science. A common thread through many areas of science, light lends itself perfectly to interdisciplinary science study. Make connections to real-world phenomena by exploring the transformation of energy, the behavior of light, and light's role in the weather, the seasons, and the production of food by plants.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Shine and Shadow
2. Laws of Light
3. Pigments, Paint, and Printing
4. Color, Cones, and Corneas
5. Sunlight to Starch
6. Energy and Ecosystems
7. Sun and Seasons
8. Wind and Weather

Item no.: HK07940468
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 480 minutes
Audience: Elementary School Teachers
Copyright: 1999
StdBkNo: 1576801950
Price: USD 720.00

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MINDS OF OUR OWN

These video programs pick up on the questions asked in the A Private Universe and further explore how children learn. Based on prominent research, as well as the pioneering work of Piaget and others, Minds of Our Own shows that many of the things we assume about how children learn are simply not true. For educators and parents, these programs bring new insight to debates about education reform.

60-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. Can We Believe Our Eyes?
2. Lessons From Thin Air
3. Under Construction

Item no.: LZ07940433
Format: 2 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned, With Guide)
Duration: 180 minutes
Audience: Grades K-12 Educators and Parents
Copyright: 1997
StdBkNo: 1576800644
Price: USD 270.00

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WORLD OF CHEMISTRY, THE

This series presents a unified view of the science and practice of chemistry. Footage of industrial processes illustrates the application of chemical reactions, while computer animations reveal changes at the molecular level. The World of Chemistry is appropriate for students taking high school or college chemistry, from introductory to advanced levels, and is easily applicable to different teaching approaches. It includes physics and Earth science components and is also valuable for teachers seeking to review the subject matter.

30-MINUTE PROGRAMS
1. The World of Chemistry
2. Color
3. Measurement: The
Foundation of Chemistry
4. Modeling the Unseen
5. A Matter of State
6. The Atom
7. The Periodic Table
8. Chemical Bonds
9. Molecular Architecture
10. Signals From Within
11. The Mole
12. Water
13. The Driving Forces
14. Molecules in Action
15. The Busy Electron
16. The Proton in Chemistry
17. The Precious Envelope
18. The Chemistry of the Earth
19. Metals
20. On the Surface
21. Carbon
22. The Age of Polymers
23. Proteins: Structure and Function
24. The Genetic Code
25. Chemistry and the Environment
26. Futures

Item no.: HE07940480
Format: 4 DVD-Rs (Closed Captioned)
Duration: 780 minutes
Audience: High School, College, and Adult Learners
Copyright: 1990
StdBkNo: 155946223X
Price: USD 1547.00

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PRIVATE UNIVERSE, A

From its famous opening scene at a Harvard graduation, this classic of education research brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? This award-winning program traces the problem through interviews with eloquent Harvard graduates and their professors, as well as with a bright ninthgrader who has some confused ideas about the orbits of the planets. Equally useful for education methods classes, teacher workshops, and presentations to the public, A Private Universe is an essential resource for science and methodology teachers.

Review
  • "This program has been the single most convincing argument for inquiry teaching that I know of." - Don Yost, retired physics teacher and workshop leader

    Item no.: SN07940464
    Format: DVD-R (With Guide)
    Duration: 20 minutes
    Audience: Grades 5-12 Teachers
    Copyright: 1989.
    StdBkNo: 1576804046
    Price: USD 89.99

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