Dr. Lora L. Tyson Education Curriculum Resource Center

Description: Brings together the intelligent use of chemistry concepts, methods and techniques to entertain and captivate your audience while enhancing your understanding of chemistry. From preparation to presentation, no stone is left unturned and no question left unanswered. Learn how to make Pyrex glassware shine, make steam rise from a teapot, and even start a fire that does not burn! Learn while you play!

Grades: K-12
Description: Contains 150 easy, effective, and highly entertaining science experiments that can be performed with ordinary household substances. A step-by-step procedure and complete explanation is provided with each experiment. You will find many unique and innovative experiments not available elsewhere.

Description: Contains methods of physical science such as properties of matter, classification of matter, heat energy, the nature of a gas, condensed states of matter, atomic theory & bonding, the periodic table, chemical reactions, force & mass, energy and motion, magnetism, and waves, sound and light.

Description:In this book, discover 100 activities that let children ages 3-6 explore the science of music and sound using materials easy to find for a preschool classroom. Children will use their bodies to create sounds, explore the relationship between size and pitch, investigate how tempo affects the way we listen to sounds, create musical instruments, and much more. From the drops of rainwater to the tinkling of wind chimes, the science of sound is all around. You will indulge young children's curiosity and engage them in scientific inquiry as they explore, listen, observe, experiment, think, and discuss different kinds of sounds and the tools for making them

Description:Capture students’ attention as you model space science concepts on your whiteboard with these full-color, realistically detailed magnets. Includes 8 planets, Pluto, Sun, Earth’s moon, asteroid belt, and Activity Set.

Description: Contains units on the nature of matter, energy, light, sound, simple machines, magnetism, static electricity and current electricity.

Description: If You Build It, They Will Learn is the perfect do-it-yourself guide for physics teachers who want custom-made demonstration projects to use in their classrooms. Devices like Galileo's Track, Coupled Pendulum, and Gum-Wrapper Thermostat will help you teach forces, energy, properties of matter, and much more.Each set of instructions is illustrated with clear photos or drawings and includes a materials list.

Description:This engaging guide offers a series of snapshots of 25 scientists famous for their work with physics, from ancient history through today. Each lab tells the story of a scientist along with some background about the importance of their work, and a description of where it is still being used or reflected in today's world. A step-by-step illustrated experiment paired with each story offers kids a hands-on opportunity for exploring concepts the scientists pursued, or are working on today. Experiments range from very simple projects using materials you probably already have on hand, to more complicated ones that may require a few inexpensive items you can purchase online.

Description: Palm Pipes are a great experiment to do with early childhood. When you tap the different pipes and let them hear the difference, it is stimulating one of their 5 senses and you can work from there.

Description: Contains fossils and a sorting guide that includes a picture of many of the fossils along with information about their approximate age and modern relatives.

Grades: 5-8
Description: This 24" inflatable Clever Catch® ball adds a new dimension to learning about the causes and effects of natural disasters. Toss around the classroom, playground or home and wherever your left thumb lands is the question that is to be answered! Teacher’s answers and instructions are included. For grades 5 through 8.

Description: Use this air-mazing experience to demonstrate the properties of air molecules and how they move. Teach students about the Bernoulli Effect, a scientific principle that explains why you can blow up the amazing windbag with only one breath.

Grades: K-12
Description: Contains scenarios that will prompt K– 12 students to work collaboratively on analyzing problems, asking questions, posing hypotheses, and constructing solutions. The lessons cover four categories: Earth’ s landforms and water, the rock cycle and plate tectonics, weather, and astronomy.

Description Includes labeled rocks and minerals with corresponding content lists for identification.

Description: When connected to two plastic bottles, the tube demonstrates how tornadoes and similar swirling motions in fluids occur when water drops through an opening.

Description:We can’t see ultraviolet rays, but kids learn they’re there with these special beads. Make bracelets or necklaces while the beads are white, and then wear them outside. The ultraviolet-sensitive pigment changes the beads from white to the assorted colors of blue, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow, even on a cloudy day! Your young scientists will learn that UV light is all around them, even when they can’t see it. Bring the beads inside and they will revert back to white since they are no longer exposed to UV rays. The beads will change over and over again without fading.

Description:Portable carrying case with removable thermometer, barometer, and hygrometer, 3 stands stored in compartment in carrying case, 1 activity guide : all in clear backpack 17"

Grades: 6-8
Description: This 24” inflatable Clever Catch® ball adds a new dimension to learning about weather. Toss around the classroom, playground, or home and wherever your left thumb lands is the question that is to be answered! Contains over 100 weather-related questions. Teacher’s answers and instructions are included.

Description:Learn all about electricity and magnetism. Learn about magnetic fields; how the electricity in your home works; how switches control the electricity to the lights in your home; and how series and parallel circuits affect electricity.

Description:Learn about conductivity and different types of circuits. Itʼs completely safe, and itʼs a totally cool way to learn about conductors of electricity. By adding the probes to the ends of Energy Stick, you have made what electricians call a conductivity tester or a device that determines if something conducts electricity

Grades: K-12
Description: This guide helps teachers to integrate Engineering and Science in the classroom. Activities involve everything from light sabers and egg racers to prosthetic arms and potatoes. Lessons apply to environmental science, Earth science, and physical science. Works well in traditional classrooms as well as after-school programs.

What is electricity? How does a circuit work? Why do batteries only work if you put them in the correct way? Find out the answers to these questions and much more.

Description: This kit includes 14 parts and you can build more than 20 projects learning the basics of how switches and circuits work. PLUS the skills needed to complete, troubleshoot and solve problems and enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done. The included color manual was created just for younger "engineers" with very few words and lots of step-by-step diagrams

Description: This 78 piece Builderific is the perfect construction toy for junior engineers.

Description: Contains 50 educational (and edible!) science experiments you can do at home. In laboratories, at school, and even in your house--science happens everywhere. Awesome Kitchen Science Experiments for Kids brings the excitement of scientific investigation to your kitchen with a heaping helping of experiments that you can really sink your teeth into!

Grades: PreK- 5
Description: Contains a collection of STEM-related articles from the journal Science and Children. It provides a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics content and classroom activities

Description:From flying toilet paper to trash can smoke rings, erupting soda to exploding sandwich bags, the experiments in this book will spark the imagination. Learn how to astound kids and kids-at-heart with experiments like these: bubbling lava bottle; the incredible can crusher; nails for breakfast; the folding egg; quicksand goo; screaming balloon, and burning money.

Description:Smithsonian 10-Minute Science Experiments gives curious young readers dozens of colorful, exciting projects designed to teach them about the basics of science, physics, chemistry and engineering. They’ll learn about critical thinking, how to conduct an experiment, and how to measure results.

Description Projects designed to encourage children to question like a scientist, design like a technologist, build like an engineer, create like an artist, deduce like a mathematician, and play like a kid.

Description: Guide that helps teachers quickly and confidently infuse STEM concepts into all content areas. Real-world vignettes, sample lesson templates, discussion questions and immediately applicable action steps help you seamlessly promote college and career ready skills.

Description: STEM by Design reveals the secrets to successful lessons in which students use science, math, and technology to solve real-world engineering design problems.

Description: Focuses on the rigorous articulation of quality STEM education programming to develop STEM talent among high-ability and gifted learners. The intent of this book is to provide a comprehensive resource for educators designing and implementing each of the supports within STEM education by providing a discussion of each critical component for inclusion in a planned, coherent, and high-quality sequenced system. This edited volume provides a cutting-edge discussion of best practices for delivering STEM education by experts in the field. The contributing authors provide a differentiated discussion and recommendations for the learning experiences of gifted students in STEM education programs.

Description: Contains 50 integrated labs that cultivate an interest in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students actively engage in solving real-world problems using scientific inquiry, content knowledge, and technological design. The key components of each lab investigation are creativity, teamwork, communication, and critical thinking. Investigations cover a wide range of topics in physical science, life science, earth and space science, alternative energy, and environmental science. Each activity requires students to research, collaborate, design, and reflect.

Grades: 5-8
Description: Contains field-tested lessons, workshops, and projects designed by professionals in each field. Including reflective observations by arts and science celebrities like Jon Scieszka, Mayim Bialik, and Steve Hockensmith, lessons feature bonus activities, fun facts, and teaching points for instructors at every level. These lessons will awaken student imaginations and passions for both STEM and creative writing, encourage identity with scientific endeavors, and make both science and writing fun.

Description: Contains basic STEM concepts, providing different avenues to understanding STEM instruction, science and mathematics, the power of inquiry and problem solving, and engineering and technology. Imaginatively integrates STEM subjects in the classroom. Contains informative assessments, lesson plans, and activities.

Grades: K-12
Description: this resource provides the nuts and bolts of differentiation. Presented in an easy-to-implement format, this handy notebook is designed to facilitate the understanding and process of writing differentiated lessons to accommodate all readiness levels, learning styles, and interests. The lessons are based on various differentiation strategies including tiered assignments, tiered graphic organizers, leveled questions, using realia, menu of options, stations/interest centers, discovery-based learning, and orbital studies. Additionally, the lessons are vertically aligned and provided at four different levels: K 2, 3 5, 6 8, and 9 12.

Grades: 5-8
Description: offers teachers proven techniques for designing and delivering effective science instruction, measuring success, getting students to work together, and collaborating with other professionals. The ready-to-use activities are tied to core curriculum standards for middle school students and each lesson incorporates adaptations for students with different learning needs.

Description: Offers teachers exciting tools to challenge and reach both gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Whether these students need enrichment, choice in independent practice, or even additional academic options resulting from curriculum compacting, these books provide teachers a complete ready-to-use resource. Each book includes a rubric that can assess different types of products, free choice proposal forms to encourage independent study, specific guidelines for each of the products included in the menus to save the teacher time, and challenging menus to meet the needs of these diverse higher level learners.

Grades: 3-5
Description: Presents a guide to integrating literacy into elementary science instruction. Demonstrates how to incorporate various nonfiction texts and contains units organized by subject.

Description: This volume offers 15 lessons that combine picture books and inquiry to develop students interest in science and reading. The lessons cover physical science, life science, and Earth and space science. They include reproducible student pages and assessments. They feature embedded reading-comprehension strategies. And they make students yearn to learn with fiction and nonfiction books.

Description: Provides fifteen lesson plans that incorporate picture books into the science curriculum.

Description: This book discusses the effective and imaginative integration of literature into the classroom. It shows how using children's literature can help teachers meet national standards for math, science, social studies, and language arts.

Description: This book will provide you with: an overview of the past 500 years of scientific thought and the literature of science fiction which it inspired; suggestions for finding and adapting the kind of science fiction that will work best for your classroom; detailed ideas and resources for teaching concepts in the physical, earth, space, and life sciences, as well in history and mathematics; and suggested activities for a variety of grade levels. Appendices provide: science references to help you keep the facts and the fictions straight; national science content standards; and detailed lesson plans for an earth science unit where students travel the depths of time and create their own time travelers' diaries.