New! The BSCS Tote Bag
Now available in limited supplies, the classic black BSCS tote. Organize your day with this roomy 16x13x5-inch polycanvas bag, sturdy enough for books, binders, notepads, or even a laptop. The soft-bottomed tote can be carried as a backpack or by its bookbag-style handles. The BSCS tote features two mesh side pockets, perfect for holding water bottles, snacks, cell phones, or cameras, and two front solid pockets, one with a velcro closure and one with a snap buckle. Interior pockets contain elastic pen/pencil holders and a divided storage area for smaller items. This lightweight tote comes with removable shoulder straps that double as top-closure cinch straps.
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The Biology Teacher's Handbook
Building upon the foundation of the first three editions, The Biology Teacher’s Handbook, 4th Edition has been updated to reflect contemporary issues and current understandings of science and teaching. You will find this new edition packed full of insights into effective teaching strategies, inquiry-based instruction, course planning, and program selection. Designed to support you as you build a culture of inquiry in your classroom.
Since it was first released in 1960, biology teachers have counted The Biology Teacher’s Handbook among their most valuable resources. The third edition was published in 1978 and was taken out of print in the mid-eighties. More than 14 BSCS Science Educators contributed to the 4th edition, released in March 2009 and published by NSTA Press.
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TIMSS 1999 Video Study
The TIMSS study of 8th grade science teaching examines science teaching practices in more than 400 classrooms to compare practices in the U.S. to those in higher-achieving countries. The TIMSS 1999 Video Study: Science Public Release Lessons CD set contains five full-length videotaped lessons from each of five countries: Australia, Czech Republic, Japan, Netherlands, and United States.
This CD set was produced in 2007 by the LessonLab Research Institute at Pearson and is being distributed by BSCS. For ideas about how to use video clips from this set to highlight the findings from the TIMSS study in presentations or workshops, please contact Kathy Roth.
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Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Adolescent Brain
This DVD and 120-page book is a unique and informative new curriculum supplement designed for middle school science classes. The program features five classroom lessons that focus on the science of how drugs affect the brain; an integrated video with interviews by leading scientists in the area of drug abuse research, treatment experts, and recovering drug addicts; animations to illustrate the effects of drugs; and a facilitation guide for presenting the video to adult audiences. Funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA). Click here for more information.
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Why Does Inquiry Matter?
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This 35-page PDF booklet is dedicated to inquiry – what is it, exactly? Why should we care about it? How does it fit into the teaching and learning of science? Why Does Inquiry Matter? Because that’s what science is all about! This valuable guide teaches us about the fundamentals of inquiry – Inquiry in the Classroom; The Essential Features of Inquiry; The Look of Inquiry; Resources for Learning about Inquiry; and Articles of Interest.
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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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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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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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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.
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BSCS Posters
Add color to your walls with these two BSCS posters.
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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.
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The BSCS Story
An award-winning book that takes the reader back to 1957 when the launching of the Soviet satellite, Sputnik, awakened the American educational and political establishment to the need for modernizing science education.
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