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Program Overview The Prentice Hall Science Integrated Learning System series is a program for middle school or junior high school students. Designed to cover all relevant areas of science, this program consists of 19 books, each in a particular topic area, such as sound and light, the planet earth, and chemistry of matter.
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Program Resources and Support Materials A variety of materials, including some optional components, is available. A teacher's resource package contains the student edition 16 ABOUT THE ANNOTATIONS IN "PHYSICAL SCIENCEC ORE MATER~A~s Entry Numbers Curriculum materials are arranged alphabetically by title in each cate gory (Core Materials, Supplementary Units, and Science Activity Books)
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Other available materials include interactive videodiscs, transparencies, assessment materials, English and Spanish guides for language learners, a study guide, a teacher's desk reference, and a booklet of product-testing activities. Key to Content Stan~arcis: 5-8 (see app.
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A teacher's resource package contains the student edition and annotated teacher's edition of both the textbook and the lab manual, as well as a test book, an activity book, a review-and-reinforcement guide, and English and Spanish audiotapes for auditory and language learners. Other available materials include videotapes, interactive videodiscs, transparencies, assessment materials, English and Spanish guides for language learners, a study guide, a teacher's desk reference, and a booklet of product-testing activities.
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The teacher's edition also pro vides suggestions for teaching, guiding, integrating, and closing lessons, as well as enrichments, extensions, and answers to questions in the student text. Supplementary Laboratory Manual The supplementary lab manual provides 61 additional investigations directly correlated with the information presented in the student textbook.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-6. Reading level: 7.
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"Electricity and Energy Resources." During this course, students learn about motion and forces; acceleration and momentum; energy; simple machines; solids, liquids, and gases; atomic structure; chemical bonds; organic and biological compounds; solutions; chemical reactions; acids, bases, and salts; waves and sound; light; mirrors and lenses; electricity; magnetism and its uses; electronics and computers; nuclear reactions; and energy sources. Sample lab activities in this textbook include making a model of a simple accelerometer, constructing a pendulum to compare the exchange of potential and kinetic energy, and constructing and analyzing a model of a 4-stroke engine.
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HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE: Science as a human endeavor; nature of science. Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-6.
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A teacher's resource package contains the student edition and annotated teacher's editions of both the textbook and the lab manual, as well as a test book, an activity book, a review- and-reinforce ment guide, and English and Spanish audiotapes for auditory and language learners. Other available materials include interactive videodiscs, transparencies, assessment materials, English and Spanish guides for language learners, a study guide, teacher's desk reference, and a booklet of product-testing activities.
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Student Edition Recommended grade level: 8.. Reading level: middle 7.
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The teacher's guide includes a unit overview, the 16 lesson plans, an annotated bibliography, and reproducible masters. A well-organized student activity book provides instructions for carrying out the activities.
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Program Resources And Support Materials A variety of materials, including some optional components, is available. A teacher's resource package contains the student edition and annotated teacher's editions of both the textbook and the lab manual, as well as a test book, an activity book, a review-and-reinforcement guide, and English and Spanish audiotapes for auditory and language reamers.
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Program Overview The Prentice Hall Science Integrated Learning System series is a program for middle school or junior high school students. Designed to cover all relevant areas of science, this program consists of 19 books, each in a particular topic area, such as motion, forces and energy; the planet earth; and cellsbuilding blocks of life.
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Program Resources and Support Materials A variety of materials, including some optional components, is available. A teacher's resource package contains the student edition and annotated teacher's editions of both the textbook and the lab manual, as well as a test book, an activity book, a review-and-reinforcement guide, and English and Spanish audiotapes for auditory and language learners.
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Program Resources And Support Materials A variety of materials, including some optional components, is available. A teacher's resource package contains the student edition and annotated teacher's editions of both the textbook and the lab manual, as well as a test book, an activity book, a review-and-reinforcement guide, and English and Spanish audiotapes for auditory and language learners.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-~. InBubbleFestival,students participate in a variety of bubble activities in a learning-station format.
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Berkeley, Calif.: Lawrence Hall of Science, 1992. Program Overviews The Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS)
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Student Edition Recommended grade level: 7-8. Changes in Matter contains 7 lessons that discuss the physical and chemical properties of matter and examine how the chemical properties of matter determine its interaction with other substances.
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Each requires about 3 to 4 weeks to complete and includes a teacher's guide and materials for a class of 32 students. Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 7-~.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-~. In Color Analyzers, students investigate light and color while experimenting with diffraction gratings and color filters.
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The time needed to complete GEMS units varies from about 2 to 10 class sessions. Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 6-S I
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Tec~char's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-~. In Electromagnetism, students explore the unique relationship between electricity and magnetism and how this relationship can be manipulated to produce an electric current or a magnetic field.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 6-8 .. Experimenting with Model Rockets is a "nuts-and-bolts" guide that introduces students to the concept of controlled experimentation.
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During the unit students develop an understanding of friction and gravity; find out how one form of energy can be transformed into another; discriminate between potential and kinetic energy; calculate and measure energy using joules; define work, power, and momentum; and explore levers, pulleys, the wheel and axle, and the inclined plane as simple machines. Sample activities include investigating the variables involved in frictional forces; observing if mass and
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Program Resources and Support Mater~als A wide range of materials, including some optional components, is available. Examples include consumable and nonconsumable activity materials; audio- and videotapes; interactive videodiscs; color transparencies; assessment materials; a teacher anthology of short stories, poems, fingerplays, and songs; trade books; teacher resource masters; activity cards; activity logs; a staff development package; concept summaries and glossaries for students acquiring English; and software with problem-solving simulations for students.
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Tec~cher's Guide Recommended grade level: 6-~. In More Than Magnifiers, students investigate the properties and practical applications of lenses.
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The time needed to complete GEMS units varies from about 2 to 10 class sessions. Teclcher's Guide Recommended grade level: 4-8.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 4-~. In this unit, students investigate an unknown substance (said to come from another planet)
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Program Resources and Support Materials A wide range of materials, including some optional components, is available. Examples include consumable and nonconsumable activity materials; audio- and videotapes; interactive videodiscs; color transparencies; assessment materials; a teacher anthology of short stories, poems, fingerplays, and songs; trade books; teacher 43
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Each module consists of a student book and a teacher's guide. Student Edition Recommended grade level: 6-7.
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Teacher's Guide The wraparound teacher's guide includes a unit overview, a time line for completing the module, a materials list, background information, and teaching suggestions. Key to Content Starufards: 5-8 (see app.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8.. In the 16 easy-to-follow activities in Analysis- which is one of the many units in the Task Card Series students practice and become familiar with the analytical and problem-solving skills that scientists use in identifying substances.
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East Orange, N.J.: Charles Edison Fund, 1994. Recommended grade level: 6-8.
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Fresno, Calif.: AIMS Education Foundation, 1994. Recommended grade level: 5-8.
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In Experiments with Bubbles, 1 of 4 books in the series Getting Started in Science, about 50 simple activities with bubbles help students investigate topics such as light, color, Bernoulli's principle, and surface tension. Among other activities, students measure the surface tension of a liquid using a balance beam, they explore how humidity and temperature affect the life span and size of bubbles, and they compare the images one sees in a bubble with those seen in concave and convex mirrors.
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Washington, D.C.: National Science Teachers Association, 1990. Recommended grade level: 5-8~.
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Recommended grade level: 5-7. The 40 simple experiments in Fundamentals of Physical Science introduce students to the nature of scientific investigation; the classification and identification.of matter; and the properties of solids, liquids, and gases.
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Boulder, Colo.: Team Labs, 1996. Recommended grade level: 6-8~.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8 I Integrating Aerospace Science into the Cur r7culum is a resource guide designed to help incorporate in the K-12 science curriculum ideas, activities, and interdisciplinary projects related to the science and story of aerospace advances.
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Recommended grade level: 4-6. LEGO Technic IActivity Center helps students learn fundamental concepts, skills, and processes related to physical science and technology.
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Recommended grade level: 5~8. Journal entries about the uses of various simple machines and the forces that affect them provide a story line for the activities in Machine Shop, an activity book on the mechanics of physics, in which mathematics and science skills are tested and other disciplines are integrated.
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Recommended grade level: 7-~. Metals, 1 of 5 activity books in a series on everyday materials, contains 16 simple experiments that help students learn about metals as materialswhat they are made of, how they behave, and why they are important.
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The 36 short activities in Motion which is one of the many units in the Task Card Series help students explore and learn about Newton's 3 laws of motion. For example students track elastic collisions between spheres of equal and unequal mass, and compare static friction with moving friction.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8+. Nuclear Energy introduces students to facts and issues related to nuclear energy.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8+. This annotated teacher's guide on Motion Experiments, part of the Personal Science Laboratory series, is designed to help teachers run and teach 10 microcomputer-based investigations that explore motion.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8~. This annotated teacher's guide on Temperature Experiments, part of the Personal Science Laboratory series, is designed to help teachers run and teach 8 microcomputer-based investigations that explore heat and temperature concepts.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8. In the 32 easy-to-follow activities in Pressureone of many units in the Task Card Series students become familiar with some of the concepts and principles associated with pressure.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8~. Projects That Explore Energy is a small activity book, written for students, containing directions for 11 simple science projects or experiments about what energy is and how it works.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8. Science Experiments: Chemistry and Physics is an activity book containing 36 simple experiments that introduce students to concepts in chemistry and physics.
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Recommended grade level: 7-~. Science Projects about Temperature and Heat, 1 of 6 in a series written for students, contains 24 simple experiments or activities related to temperature and heat.
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The unit contains reproducible "task cards" that include directions for each activity, teaching notes, and review questions.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8 e. Sparks and Shocks, a well-organized, sequential activity book, contains 6 investigative experiments and 12 demonstrations on static electricity, adapted by the Bakken Library and Museum from the original studies of 66 scientists who lived during the eighteenth century.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8.. Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions, a teacher's guide containing directions for approximately 100 activities, is designed to help students identify and change their common, naive preconceptions and misconceptions about science topics.
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White Plains, N.Y.: Cuisenaire, 1994. Recommended grade level: 6-8.
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Recommended grade level: 5-8 ~ . Young America Hands-on Activities is a teacher's resource guide that offers an 11-week series of interdisciplinary activities related to boats and sailing.
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