Teacher Resources - STEM

 Integrating Engineering & Science in Your Classroom - Edited by Eric Brunsell"To help you blend authentic and meaningful engineering activities into your teaching, this volume's 30 chapters have been compiled from Science and Children, Science Scope, and The Science Teacher, NSTA's journals for elementary through high school. The activities apply to life and environmental science, Earth science, and physical science and work well in traditional classroomas as well as in after-school programs." --from NSTA catalog

 Math Work Stations: Indpendent Learning You can Count On, K-2 - Debbie Diller

A guide to math stations in kindergarten through second grade, providing math vocabulary resources; literature links; suggestion on materials to include; ideas for modeling, differentiating, and assessment; reflection questions; and other resources.

 

 The Everyday Science Sourcebook: Ideas for Teaching in Elementary and Middle School
- Lawrence F. Lowery
Fully updated with content selected to build on the AAAS and National Science Education Standards, this new edition is full of hundreds of entries that can spark your thinking the next time you need to fill in a gap in your curriculum, add a fresh element to your textbook lessons, or extend and enrich hands-on activities. Six broad content categories provide the framework for the main body of this book: Inorganic matter; Organic matter; Energy; Inference models; Technology; and Instructional apparatus, materials, and systems. --from back cover

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Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning
- Richard H. Moyer and Susan A. Everett
A compilation of articles previously published in Science Scope. Includes fourteen activities that explore engineering's role in the office, kitchen, bathroom, electricity, and outdoor recreation.

New Activity and Idea Books

Basic Language Arts G.A.M.E.S.
Cover essential, standards-based skills. Perfect for centers, tutoring, remediation, enrichment, and assessment. G.A.M.E.S. can be played individually or in groups. Includes 15 full-color file folder, resealable bag, and envelope games; two reproducible assessment worksheets for each game; a cross-referenced skills matrix, and self-checking answer keys. 

Basic Math G.A.M.E.S.
Cover essential, standards-based skills. Perfect for centers, tutoring, remediation, enrichment, and assessment. G.A.M.E.S. can be played individually or in groups. Includes 15 full-color file folder, resealable bag, and envelope games; two reproducible assessment worksheets for each game; a cross-referenced skills matrix, and self-checking answer keys. 


All Around the Neighborhood
There’s a huge world for children to explore within their own communities, and this book provides the perfect place for them to start. Use the reproducible building fronts and vehicles to create a familiar neighborhood setting then let your students’ imaginations do the rest. From their own homes to fire stations to construction sites, social awareness is taught in conjunction with a variety of new concepts and vocabulary words that draw upon children’s interests. Includes 10 mini-books, seven file-folder games, 60+ reproducible patterns, 80+ literature links, and a wealth of cross-curricular activities to reinforce each new concept. Supports NCSS and NAEYC, standards.

Start Young! Early Childhood Science Activities
Offers a wealth of simple educational activities designed to use right away with even the littlest scientists. The book includes a chapter of helpful background on the latest thinking about effective ways to introduce science in early childhood. But the bulk of the book is two dozen articles compiled from Science & Children, NSTAs award-winning journal for elementary school teachers.

Activities Linking Science with Math 5-8
A hands-on guide for pre-service and in-service elementary and middle school teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of study, including visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math.

Classic Classroom Activities: The Oxford Picture Dictionary Program 









Activities Linking Science with Math K-4
A hands-on guide for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers who want to connect science instruction with other areas of studyincluding visual arts, social sciences, language arts, and especially math.

New Science Activity Books

Standards-Based Science Investigations
Lessons cover life, earth, and physical sciences. Included are science inquiry worksheets, an inquiry assessment rubric, and alignment to standards.

For Grade 3, sample activities include hydroponic gardening, examining seashells, identifying constellations, making a cloud, observing evaporation, creating static electricity, making helicopters, and flying planes.

For Grade 4, sample activities include observing phototropism, investigating pill bugs, testing hardness of rocks, recording temperatures, working with switches and circuits, floating and sinking boats, and working with light and rainbows.

For Grade 5, sample activities include working with animal family trees, examining a goldfish, hearing heartbeats, comparing fingerprints, creating wind vanes, classifying clouds, testing acids and bases, examining X-rays, using prisms, making a periscope, and bouncing sound.

For Grade 6, sample activities include recognizing biomes, distinguishing nekton and benthos, observing transpiration, reading with Braille, building tectonic plates, making fossil prints, examining rocks, measuring solar system distances, charting the phases of the moon, and working with kinetic energy.

New Science and Math Activity Books

More Picture-Perfect Science Lessons: Using Children's Books to Guide Inquiry, K-4 - Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan
Presents fifteen lessons that use fiction and nonfiction picture books to teach about physical, life, earth, and space science, following the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study's 5E instructional model and featuring exploration questions.

Cartoon Corner: Humor-Based mathematics Activities
Ways to use cartoons in the classroom -- Algebraic thinking -- Fractions, decimals, and percent -- Geometry and measurement -- Holidays -- Numbers and numeration -- Ratio and proportion -- Data analysis and probability.