Does It Really Take Seven Years to Digest Swallowed Gum?: And Other Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask (Is That a Fact?)
Age: 9 and up
It takes seven years to digest swallowed gum. A penny placed on a train track can cause a train to derail. The average human consumes four spiders per year while sleeping. You may have heard some of these common sayings or beliefs before. But are they really true? Can they be proven using science?
Bring authentic, motivating material from the UK's Channel 5 into your classroom! Lessons are structured around 5-8 minute programme extracts, including teenagers discussing relationships, a soap opera set in a UK school and a cross-curricular science programme. On-screen support aids comprehension and the accompanying resource book provides extension and self-study activities.
The 15 high school models that make up this monograph were chosen by the advisory board as the best examples of programs: each has had a clear, positive impact on student science learning. The four goals for K–12 science encompass preparing students who: 1. experience the richness and excitement of knowing about and understanding the natural world; 2. use appropriate scientific processes and principles in making personal decisions; 3. engage intelligently in public discourse and debate about matters of scientific and technological concern; and 4. increase their economic productivity through the use of the knowledge, understanding, and ...
Since their release in 1996, the National Science Education Standards have provided the vision for science education reform. But has that reform actually taken hold in elementary school? Yes!, reports Robert Yager, editor of Exemplary Science in Grades PreK 4: Standards-Based Success Stories. Probably the Standards have done more to change science in elementary schools than has occurred at the other grade levels. Evidence of change is apparent in this fourth volume of the Exemplary Science monograph series, an essay collection featuring educators in PreK-4 describing programs they ve developed to fulfill the Standards More Emphasis guidelines.
New Scientist is superbly written, features great design and photography throughout and is accessible to anyone interested in science, regardless of their level of knowledge or qualifications. Each issue of this great weekly mag brings you all the news from the world of science, covering every discipline such as physics, biology, chemistry and some wonderfully advanced ideas such as quantum mechanics and string theory.
