Product Description: Students learn fundamental concepts about matter and overcome common misconceptions through a series of engaging investigations, each followed by a lively discussion based on evidence they have gathered. The activities in this guide help teachers build a foundation of inquisitiveness and develop solid science concepts in students...read more

Product Description: Based on activities presented originally at Berkeley_s Lawrence Hall of Science, Bubble Festival takes the concept of a learning-centered bubble festival and adapts it to a classroom setting. Captivating, bubble-centric learning activities are packed with math and science content...read more

'Presents a series of investigations that effectively challenge commonly held misconceptions and lead to a deeper understanding of the nature of light and color, and the color spectrum'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: In this updated forensic science primer, student detectives use paper chromatography to investigate solubility, pigments and separation of mixtures to solve a mystery. Teachers can use this unit to draw upon students' interest in and enthusiasm for solving mysteries to convey important scientific concepts, methods and techniques...read more

Product Description: This GEMS unit_with accompanying CD-ROM_begins with a mystery. A series of alarming events takes place. Power outages, loss of cellular phone communication, strange glowing lights in the sky. The "culprit" is the Sun. Students learn how this is possible through mock scientific missions, learning of UV radiation and the protective powers of the atmosphere...read more

Product Description: Based on activities presented originally at Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, Bubble Festival takes the concept of a learning-centered bubble festival and adapts it to a classroom setting. Captivating, bubble-centric learning activities are packed with math and science content...read more

Product Description: Students travel around the world to investigate evidence for the theory of plate tectonics. Through constructing classroom models of erupting volcanoes, strike-slip faults, rock layers, and submerged mountaint ranges, students are able to compare geological phenomena and structures in Hawaii, California, Iceland, Japan, and Nepal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In this compelling and unique series of life-science activities for grades two through six, student groups set up and observe living, desktop models of a pond. Over a period of weeks, each group studies and adds one type of organism at a time to a small tank, transforming the containers into aquatic habitats...read more

Product Description: This GEMS guide, for grades four to eight, features ten learning stations designed to enliven student curiosity in a wide diversity of scientific fields. Using hand lenses and microscopes, students observe, record, and investigate water drop magnifiers, fingerprint ridges, dollar bills, color printing, fabrics, salts, sand, kitchen powders, insects, spiders, brine shrimp, and pond life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)