50th Anniversary Package
$30.00 if sold separately. Package price $25.00, save $5.00
50th Anniversary Package includes:
- BSCS | Measuring Our Success: The First 50 Years of BSCS, a 212-page book published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
- BSCS | The Continuing Story: Celebrating the First 50 Years of BSCS, a 27-minute DVD produced by Hummingbird Films in honor of BSCS’s 50th anniversary
- Gold-logo BSCS coffee mug
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BSCS | Measuring Our Success: The First 50 Years of BSCS
A 212-page book published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. Selected essays reflecting the success of BSCS over the past 50 years.
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BSCS | The Continuing Story: Celebrating the First 50 Years of BSCS
DVD
Commissioned by BSCS in honor of its 50th anniversary, BSCS: The Continuing Story takes the viewer back in time to science education in the late 1950s and early 60s. Learn what world crisis brought about massive changes in science education in the U.S. How did evolution fit into the picture, and why did BSCS produce three different versions of science education curriculum materials? This 27-minute video provides a rich historical look at the past 50 years of science education and offers thoughtful insights into what we might think about for the next 50. Produced by Hummingbird Films. Limited quantities.
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Profiles in Science
New-Second Edition
A guide to NSF-funded high school instructional materials. This 140-page book contains profiles on 25 science programs and four under-development programs. Profiles in Science, second edition (2007), provides updated profiles on materials designed to help high school science teachers in grades 9-12 focus on “the art of teaching” and student learning. For more information and a list of profiles, click here.
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BSCS Professional Development Package
New
BSCS Professional Development Package includes:
- Profiles In Science 2nd ed., a guide to NSF-funded high school instructional materials
- BSCS: The Natural Selection: 3-Volume Set
- Why Does Inquiry Matter? (booklet)
- A BSCS poster
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BSCS Evolution Activities Package
$65.00 if sold separately. Package price, $60.00, save $5.00.
Evolution Package includes:
- Evolutionary Science and Society: Activities for the Classroom 2004 (268-page book and CD)
- Evolution and the Enviornment: Activities for the Classroom 2005 (CD)
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BSCS Evolution Package
$99.95 if sold separately. Package price, $89.95, save $10.00.
Evolution Package includes:
- Evolutionary Science and Society: Activities for the Classroom 2004 (268-page book and CD)
-Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation (202-page book)
-Evolution and the Enviornment: Activities for the Classroom 2005 (CD)
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BSCS Posters
Add color to your walls with these two BSCS posters.
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Evolution and the Environment: Activities for the Classroom 2005
This CD contains a set of engaging activities that align with the 2005 Evolution Symposium organized by BSCS, AIBS, and NABT, which brought together leading experts and provided science teachers with a general review of the philosophical issues surrounding the teaching of evolution and a broad update on current evolutionary science content related to the environment.
This CD contains a compilation of six major sections and 12 complete classroom activities, including copymasters. Evolution and the Environment: Activities for the Classroom 2005 brings to life the intimate relationship between evolution and the environment.
For a look at section and activity topics, click here!
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Evolutionary Science and Society: Activities for the Classroom 2004
A compilation of classroom activities that spans five general areas--introduction to evolutionary thinking; teaching the tree of life; teaching how evolution works; teaching evolution's importance for public health; and teaching evolution's importance for society. Includes a CD containing PDFs of activity copymasters, this publication, and Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation (conference proceedings from the symposium of the same name).
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Evolutionary Science and Society: Educating a New Generation
NEW! Edited by Joel Cracraft and Rodger Bybee. Based on the symposium hosted by AIBS and BSCS at the 2004 annual convention of the National Association of Biology Teachers. Presents the proceedings of the two-day symposium.
View this publication in pdf format
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Cornerstone-to-Capstone Approach:
Creating Coherence in High School Science
A monograph examining the Cornerstone-to-Capstone Approach in high school science education. This 204-page book provides an overview of the physics-first movement, its promise for enhancing science learning, and possible pitfalls in implementing this type of program. The five chapters and six essays in the book address a range of issues that cover decision making and implementation. Three case studies offer a first-hand look at physics-first programs in three different high school settings. Included is a special invitation to these important conversations by Nobel Laureate physicist Leon Lederman. More info.
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The Natural Selection: 3-volume set
Order your three-volume set of the BSCS news journal focusing on high school science education reform. For more information, click here.
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Bioinformatics and the Human Genome Project
A stand-alone instructional module that addresses how and why computers are essential for analyzing the data produced by the Human Genome Project. Bioinformatics provides teachers with background information about development and applications of bioinformatics and includes five inquiry-based classroom lessons.
Complimentary publication. You pay shipping & handling only.
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Why Does Inquiry Matter?
This product is currently on backorder.
This 35-page BSCS booklet guides the reader through a series of topics surrounding the importance and understanding of inquiry. Readers are introduced to students' abilities and understandings of inquiry at various grade levels, based on the National Science Education Standards, in addition to the five essential features of inquiry. Also included are classroom case studies that assist in the recognition of inquiry in the classroom as well as techniques that help when choosing instructional materials that support an inquiry-oriented classroom.
Complimentary publication. You pay shipping and handling only.
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