This innovative series of lessons/worksheets applies basic science concepts to everyday life. It includes over 75 stimulating enhancement activities with background information covering Earth Science, Chemistry, Life Science, Physics, and Astronomy, ready to use as a stand-alone or supplement to a science text.
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For all science teachers in grades 5-12, here is an exciting collection of ready-to-use lessons, project and lab activities to help student relate basic science concepts and skills to every-day life and answer the question, "Why do I need to know this?"
Included are 22 comprehensive, test lessons in five major areas of general science, accompanies by over 150 reproducible student activity sheets to help student understand concrete scientific applications that are interesting and relevant. Each lesson includes a concise introduction to a specific topic, reproducible vocabulary games or puzzles, reproducible lab activities and projects, and complete answer keys.
And for easy use, all of theses ready-to-use lessons and activities are printed in a spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of all student activity sheets and organized into five units, each focusing on a different area of the science curriculum:
EARTH SCIENCE: Lessons on plate tectonics, rock and soil, weather and water include activities lime "Rockin' and Rollin' in the U.S.A" (earthquake epicenter lab) ... "As the Earth Moves" (plate tectonics vocabulary) ... and "Breaking Up Is Easy to Do" (lab on rock weathering)
PHYSICS: Lessons on wave energy, motion, energy/work/power and machines, and electricity feature labs such as "Good Vibration" (wave energy) ... "Up, Up and Away" (heat) ... and "Golf Balls and Their Potential" (potential energy)
ASTRONOMY: Lessons on planets, stars, the moon, and space travel include unique projects and activities such as "Star Chamber" (a class project on constellations) ... "Design a Space Craft" (lab) ... and "Cell Trek" (review board game)
CHEMISTRY: Lessons covering fats, surface tension of water, hair chemistry, and anthocyanins provide activities like "Home-made Hair Perms" (lab mimicking process of creating a permanent wave) ... and "Recipe for Proteins" (DNA modeling activity)
BIOLOGY: Lessons focusing of the blueprint of life (DNA) the basic unit of life, changes and adaptations, tree growth, and ecology feature activities such as "Who Lives in Out Trash?" (composting and food chains) ... "Dead Ringer" (lab on tree growth) ... and "Monstrous Mutation" (lab on effect of mutations on animals' survival skills).
About the Author
Pam Walker (B.S., M.Ed., Ed.S.) has taught science in grades 9-12 for the past 16 years. Elaine Wood (A.B., M.S., Ed.S.) has 10 years' experience teaching secondary science. Both authors currently teach science at Alexander High School, Douglasville, Georgia.
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49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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worth the $$ if you teach general science,
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This review is from: Hands-On General Science Activities with Real-Life Applications: Ready-to-Use Labs, Projects, & Activities for Grades 5-12 (J-B Ed: Hands On) (Paperback)
The book is spiral bound so it is easy to photocopy. I have used about 10 of the activities. All activities have a answer key. What I like is there is a section of content for the student to read before completing an activity. All activities are hands-on. I have a general science class and I have used the activity on moon craters. Students actually create craters in flour. Students perm pieces of hair in the chem. section. I do protein synthesis activity with bio. I do an acid/base activity using cabbage juice. I use the activity for earthquakes. If you teach astronomy to biology there is an activity for you. Materials are inexpensive, too.
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Great for teaching ideas,
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This review is from: Hands-On General Science Activities with Real-Life Applications: Ready-to-Use Labs, Projects, & Activities for Grades 5-12 (J-B Ed: Hands On) (Paperback)
Great for science teaching and project ideas grades 7-9... if you have higher level or younger kids, you need to do some serious modifying.
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Sit very still for a few seconds and try to detect any motion or movement around you. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postlab questions, detrital food chain, stadium steps, xylem cells, cardboard circle, cell worksheet, eight planets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Prelab Questions, Name Date, Hair Care Chemistry, Directions Read, Let's Get, The Basic Unit of Life, Milky Way, Spaced-Out Family, Temperature Data Table, Dancing Electrons, The Blueprint of Life, Great Plains, South America, Star Bright, Teacher Notes Students, Hardy Hospital, Horse's Head Nebula, Little Bear Creek, Directions After, New Orleans, Sue Ellen, Word List New!
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Sit very still for a few seconds and try to detect any motion or movement around you. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postlab questions, detrital food chain, stadium steps, xylem cells, cardboard circle, cell worksheet, eight planets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Prelab Questions, Name Date, Hair Care Chemistry, Directions Read, Let's Get, The Basic Unit of Life, Milky Way, Spaced-Out Family, Temperature Data Table, Dancing Electrons, The Blueprint of Life, Great Plains, South America, Star Bright, Teacher Notes Students, Hardy Hospital, Horse's Head Nebula, Little Bear Creek, Directions After, New Orleans, Sue Ellen, Word List New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Earth Science (Ferguson's Careers in Focus) by Ferguson Publishing in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Man in the Moon (Barnabe Riche) by Francis Godwin on page 145, and page 149
- Earth Science (Rivers Curriculum Guide) by William Donato in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Focus on Physical Science by Merrill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- McDougal Littell Earth Science: Heath Earth Science Grades 9-12 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Company in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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