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4. Earth and Space Science
4. Earth and Space Science
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Teaching materials, ancillary student materials, and some optional components are available for each course. Shipment Edition Recommended grade level: 7-8.
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In some instances, the recommended grade level may differ slightly from the publisher's advertised level. The Fry Readability Scale was used to determine the approximate reading level of core materials.
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Student Edition Recommended grade level: 7-8+. Reading level: middle 8.
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The teacher's edition also provides 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 contains 52 additional investigations directly correlated with the information presented in the student textbook.
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For each unit, teaching materials, ancillary student materials, and some optional components are available. Student Edition Recommended grade level: 6-8.
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Student Edition Recommended grade level: 7-8. Reading level: early 7.
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Student Edition Recommended grade level: 7-8. Reading level: middle 7.
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The components of an STC unit are a teacher's guide, a student activity book with simple instructions and illustrations, and a kit of materials. Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 6.
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The program includes a student textbook, a teacher's guide, an activity book, and several kits. Student Edition Recommended grade level: 8~.
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The components of a FOSS module are a teacher's guide and a kit of materials. Teacher's Chuide Recommended grade level: 5-6.
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The time needed to complete GEMS units varies from about 2 to 10 class sessions. Tec~cher's Guide Recommended grade level: 6-8+.
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In some instances, the recommended grade level may differ slightly from the publisher's advertised level. Key to Content Standards: 5-8 The key lists the content standards for grades 5-8 from the National Science Education Standards (NSES)
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Shipment Edition Recommended grade. level: 7-~.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-8. In Earth, Moon, and Stars, students investigate ancient models of the universe, the earth's shape, gravity, the moon and its phases, star clocks, and star maps.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 6-8. Earth, Moon, and Sun helps students investigate the properties of and relationships among the earth, moon, and sun.
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For each module, a student book, teacher's guide, and videotape and/or videodisc are available. Student Edition Recommended grade level: 7-~.
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Each module consists of a student book and a teacher's guide. Student Edison Recommended grade level: 6-~.
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Student Edition Recommended grade level: 7. Earth's Solid Crust contains.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-6. The Evolution of a Planetary System examines one important aspect of the search for intelligent life in the universe: the evolution of stars and planets.
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In addition to a teacher's guide for each of the 8 labs, the STAR program includes a mentor's guide for scientists, engineers, and others assisting in the classroom. Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 4-6.
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The module provides short narratives on meteorological topics; copies of actual newspaper articles; explanatory graphics; and profiles of professionals who might be involved in publishing a newspaper on a hurricane for example, an editor, a hurricane specialist, a meteorologist, a natural hazards planner, a reporter, and an environmental scientist. Middle school students who experienced Hurricane Andrew tell their stories throughout the module.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 4-8 I In this unit, students learn about the exciting world of planets and space exploration by studying Jupiter and its moons.
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Curriculum Guide Recommended grade level: 6-8 I Project Earth Sci ence: Geology contains 15 hands-on activities and a set of 4 background readings designed to introduce students to the unifying theory of plate tectonics and how this concept can be used to explain the occurrences of volcanoes, earthquakes, and other geologic phenomena.
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Curriculum Guide Recommended grade level: 6-8 ~ . Project Earth Science: Meteorology contains 17 hands-on activities, 2 demonstrations, and a set of 10 background readings designed to introduce students to meteorology.
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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. Tec~cher's Guide Recommended grade level: 5-6.
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Each requires ~0 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: S-~.
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For each unit, teaching materials, student materials, and some optional components are available. Shipment Edition Recommended grade level: 6-7.
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Teacher's Guide Recommended grade level: 7-~+. Using Earth's Resources introduces students to basic science concepts related.to earth's natural i82 resources and helps them become aware that trade-offs are inherent in the use of these resources.
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Each module consists of a student book and a teacher's guide. Spent Edition Recommended grade level: 6.
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A narrative section at the end of the module provides background information for students on the water cycle, atmospheric pressure, clouds, weather maps, and air masses and winds. 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.
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Recommended grade level: 3-8. Activities for the School Planetarium presents ideas for interdisciplinary planetarium activities for elementary and middle school students.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8. Atmospher~c Dynamics offers 35 activities related to weather and the physical processes that create and maintain motion in the atmosphere.
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Washington, D.C.: National Air and Space Museum, Office of Education, 1990. Recommended grade level: 5-~.
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Washington, D.C.: National Science Teachers Association, 1993. Recommended grade level: 6-8~.
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Recommended grade level: 5-~. Earthy Thirds, written by a middle school teacher, offers 87 ideas for basic activities in 4 areas of earth science: astronomy, geology, meteorology, and oceanography.
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Recommended grade level: 5-6. Exploring Space: Using Seymour Simon's Astronomy Books in the Classroom contains about 50 space-related activities that build on information in astronomy books by Seymour Simon and other prominent authors of children's nonfiction books.
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Watertown, Mass.: Tom Snyder Productions, 1992. Recommended grade level: 4-~.
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Recommended grade level: 8.. Measuring Earthquakes contains 5 classroom activities and 1 home activity that teach students the mathematics underlying the development and use of local-magnitude scales, such as the Richter scale, for measuring earthquakes.
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, 1993. Recommended grade level: 1-8.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8. Science Experiments: Earth Science offers 44 stand-alone activities that introduce students to a wide variety of topics in the earth sciences, focusing on geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
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Recommended grade level: 6-8~. Student Activities in Meteorology is a packet of 10 paper-and-pencil activities on meteorology and atmospheric science that give students a sense of the type and form of scientific data with which a meteorologist or an atmospheric scientist might work.
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Recommended grade level: 7-8. The 7 activities in The Topsoil Tour a soil test unit-allow students to examine, discover, and compare the physical and chemical properties of soil samples they gather.
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, 1991. Recommended grade level: Key.
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