The Science Teacher’s Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students (The Teacher’s Toolbox Series)

A winning educational formula of engaging lessons and powerful strategies for science teachers in numerous classroom settings

The Teacher’s Toolbox series is an innovative, research-based resource providing teachers with instructional strategies for students of all levels and abilities. Each book in the collection focuses on a specific content area. Clear, concise guidance enables teachers to quickly integrate low-prep, high-value lessons and strategies in their middle school and high school classrooms. Every strategy follows a practical, how-to format established by the series editors.

The Science Teacher’s Toolbox is a classroom-tested resource offering hundreds of accessible, student-friendly lessons and strategies that can be implemented in a variety of educational settings. Concise chapters fully explain the research basis, necessary technology, Next Generation Science Standards correlation, and implementation of each lesson and strategy.    

Favoring a hands-on approach, this bookprovides step-by-step instructions that help teachers to apply their new skills and knowledge in their classrooms immediately. Lessons cover topics such as setting up labs, conducting experiments, using graphs, analyzing data, writing lab reports, incorporating technology, assessing student learning, teaching all-ability students, and much more. This book enables science teachers to:

Understand how each strategy works in the classroom and avoid common mistakesPromote culturally responsive classroomsActivate and enhance prior knowledgeBring fresh and engaging activities into the classroom and the science lab

Written by respected authors and educators, The Science Teacher’s Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students is an invaluable aid for upper elementary, middle school, and high school science educators as well those in teacher education programs and staff development professionals.

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The Teacher’s Toolbox series is designed for middle school and high school teachers, staff development professionals, and education coaches. Each book provides innovative and research-based instructional strategies for students of all levels and abilities that can be easily incorporated into classroom lessons to get your students excited about learning.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jossey-Bass
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 28, 2020
Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119570107
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119570103
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1.3 x 10.7 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #147,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #94 in Secondary Education #118 in Science & Technology Teaching Materials #159 in Educational Psychology (Books)
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