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Neanderthals in the Classroom examines the ongoing battle surrounding evolution from a cultural and historical perspective and then puts Theodosius Dobzhansky's claim that "nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution" to the ultimate test by exploring the potential evolutionary roots of this societal and educational clash over human origins. In examining the biological roots of the conflict, Watts demonstrates how understanding our inner Neanderthal allows us to consciously choose more highly evolved forms of communication as a means of alleviating societal division and creating space for more effective science education. Key Features: Introduces readers to the multifaceted world of evolution education. Describes the complex interplay between religious beliefs and science as well as the clash of false information and formal education. Offers an overview of the transformation of public opinion of evolution and science over time in the United States due to the perceived conflict between science and religion. Examines students' misconceptions about the theory of evolution and the general nature of scientific discovery due to the contradictory messages that they receive in popular culture. Offers potential means to amend misconceptions so that students and other individuals can integrate evolutionary theory into their worldviews, regardless of their religious background.
With an extraordinary array of color photos and original paintings as well as fascinating new information, Giant Predators of the Ancient Seas explores how scientists use fossil clues to learn about the lives and habitats of the most exciting sea animals that ever lived. This volume gives readers an in-depth, straightforward look at the giant creatures that prowled the waters of prehistory.
This is the third in a series of four full-colour information books on the theme of Plants. The books have been carefully created to make information accessible to young readers. Large, exciting photographs draw readers into the text and get them thinking about the topic. The books are ideal for school libraries and for topic work. They can also be used to supplement the Go Facts: Plants Starter Pack which includes a photocopiable Teaching Guide full of inspirational guided reading and guided writing lesson plans using the information books. The content, layout, language and writing style of the books will help pupils to learn and understand the structures and conventions of nonfiction writing.
Your bug adventure starts here! Bug Lab for Kids is a collection of more than 40 fun activities for exploring the exciting world of arthropods, which makes up more than 90 percent of all animals on earth, including insects, spiders, centipedes, butterflies, bees, ants, and many others! Written by entomologist and educator Dr. John W. Guyton, this fascinating and informative book teaches young bug enthusiasts how to find, interact with, and collect arthropods safely. Begin Your Adventure. Learn how to dress to collect, start a field notebook, and use the scientific method, as well as the best places to look for bugs. Also, make and use an insect net, collecting jars, pitfall traps, and more, and investigate how to care for live arthropods. Preserving Insects. Find out the best ways to photograph insects, make a spreading board, and pin insects. The Most Common Insect Orders. Explore Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies and mosquitos), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), and many more. Other Arthropods. Conduct experiments with centipedes and millipedes, sow bugs and pill bugs, granddaddy longlegs, and others. Creative Projects. Re-create a paper wasp's nest with papier-mache, make a pitcher plant and fly game, and set up a butterfly watering station. Butterflies, Bees & Other Pollinators. Learn how to rear butterflies and explore their migration patterns, conduct a local survey of pollinators, host a honey tasting, and make a pollinator habitat. Turn a fascination for bugs into a love of science and nature with Bug Lab for Kids! The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of topics, including art, astronomy, clay, geology, math, and even how to create your own circus-all authored by established experts in their fields. Each lab contains a complete materials list, clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids.
Delve deep into the dark forests of the scalp and stomp through the toxic swamps of the gut as you explore every part of this amazing habitat we call the human body. Meet the family of lice living in your hair and the fungal infection in between your toes as our daring documentary team discover everything there is to know about life on us.
For the first time, Kingfisher brings its expertise in beautifully-designed, trusted non-fiction to the sphere of learning to read. This new graded reading series will grip children's interest. Developed with literacy experts, the five-level series will guide young readers as they build confidence and fluency in their literacy skills and progress towards reading alone.
How do the senses work? How do they help us function? Find out all about the senses in this fascinating and engaging book that uses flowcharts, text boxes and brightly coloured design to bring science to life.
Super Facts for Super Kids is a fun, fresh take on animal nonfiction for beginning readers. Filled with engaging photographs, comic-style illustrations, and cool infographics, these Level 2 Ready-to-Reads are sure to flip, float, and fly off the shelves! Alligators and crocodiles are strong enough to bite through bone, but did you know that they can’t chew their food? Readers will love learning about what makes alligators and crocodiles “super,” as well as how to tell the two animals apart. The backmatter discusses the conservation success story of the previously endangered American alligator.
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nature makes top level science fun. Here are the superstars of the story of life, from the super-weird to the super-ferocious. Usually a species has 10 million years or so of evolving, eating, chasing, playing, maybe doing homework, or even going to the moon before it goes extinct. Megalodon, the super-predator, had the most powerful bite force ever measured! Terrorising the oceans, it hunted with stealth and skill, but even Megalodon died out, along with 50 percent of marine mammals, 2.5 million years ago. Find out why! Collect all eight books about animals we have lost in mass extinctions caused by asteroids or mega-volcanoes, clashing continents and climate change. Also includes: * Past brought to full-colour life by palaeoartist Gabriel Ugueto * Ask an Expert contributions from leading scientists * Glossary and pronunciation guide
The Knowledge Quiz series is a deviously simple and effective way for students to revise for GCSE subjects. Put together by teaching experts, these easy-to-use books feature tear-out quizzes to help students memorise the large body of knowledge that form the basis of success in exams.Rather than just flicking through revision cards expecting things to stick in your memory, self-quizzing allows students to complete multiple copies of the same quiz and kept doing them until you get them right every time. This edition will help students to effectively drill the essential facts necessary for success in the GCSE Biology exam.
Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to revision will help you learn, practise and apply your skills and understanding. Coverage of key content from Year 2 is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide you can rely on to build both knowledge and confidence. My Revision Notes: WJEC/Eduqas A-level Biology will help you: - Develop your subject knowledge by making links between topics for more in-depth exam answers - Practise and apply your skills and knowledge with exam-style questions and frequent 'Now Test Yourself' questions with answer guidance online - Improve maths skills with helpful reminders and tips accompanied by worked examples - Avoid common mistakes and enhance your exam answers with 'Examiner tips' - Build quick recall with bullet-pointed summaries at the end of each chapter - Understand key terms you will need for the exam with user-friendly definitions and a glossary - Plan and manage your revision with our topic-by-topic planner and exam breakdown introduction
Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: Biology First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 AQA approved. Develop your students' scientific thinking and practical skills within a more rigorous curriculum; differentiated practice questions, progress tracking, mathematical support and assessment preparation will consolidate understanding and develop key skills to ensure progression. - Builds scientific thinking, analysis and evaluation skills with dedicated Working Scientifically tasks and support for the 8 required practicals, along with extra activities for broader learning - Supports students of all abilities with plenty of scaffolded and differentiated Test Yourself Questions, Show You Can challenges, Chapter review Questions and synoptic practice Questions - Supports Foundation and Higher tier students, with Higher tier-only content clearly marked - Builds Literacy skills for the new specification with key words highlighted and practice extended answer writing and spelling/vocabulary tests FREE GCSE SCIENCE TEACHER GUIDES These will be provided for free via our website. To request your free copies please email [email protected]
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nature makes top level science fun. Usually a species has 10 million years or so of evolving, eating, chasing, playing, maybe doing homework, or even going to the moon before it goes extinct. Tyrannosaurus rex, the most famous and the most misunderstood superstar in the story of life! This mightiest of dinosaurs - massive, green and scaly - or, as we now know, massive and partially feathered, with a keen sense of hearing, smell and great vision dominated the Cretaceous landscape. Everyone knows about the giant asteroid which struck Earth 66 million years ago ending the Age of the Dinosaurs. Or did it?
Known for many years as Barron's "Easy Way Series, " the new editions of these popular self-teaching titles are now Barron's "E-Z Series. " Brand-new cover designs reflect all new page layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever-- charts, graphs, diagrams, instructive line illustrations, and where appropriate, amusing cartoons. Meanwhile, the quality of the books' contents remains at least as high as ever. Barron's "E-Z "books are self-help manuals focused to improve students' grades in a wide variety of academic and practical subjects. For most subjects, the level of difficulty ranges between high school and college-101 standards. Although primarily designed as self-teaching manuals, these books are also preferred by many teachers as classroom supplements--and for some courses, as main textbooks. "E-Z "books review their subjects in detail, and feature both short quizzes and longer tests with answers to help students gauge their learning progress. Subject heads and key phrases are set in a second color as an easy reference aid. Topics covered in Barron's "E-Z Biology " include the cell, bacteria and viruses, fungi, plants, invertebrates, chordates, Homo Sapiens, heredity, genetics and biotechnology, evolution, and ecology.
This superb Exam Practice Workbook from CGP is the perfect way to prepare for the Higher Level Grade 9-1 OCR Gateway GCSE Biology exams. It's packed with a wide range of realistic exam-style questions for every topic, including coverage of Working Scientifically and all the required practicals you could be tested on in the exams. Every question is labelled with a grade range on the 9-1 scale, so it's easy to focus your practice on the difficulty level that suits you best. Detailed step-by-step answers are available in a separate book (9781782945208). Matching study notes for OCR Gateway GCSE Biology are available in CGP's brilliantly clear Revision Guide - see 9781782945666.
Spot On is spot on! The most popular course in South Africa, Spot On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves results, makes learning enjoyable, makes teaching a pleasure and is easy to use. The Spot On Teacher’s Guide comes with printable planning material, Formal Assessment Tasks, revision tests and exams.
Readers can't get enough of Science Comics, so we're delivering three fan-favourite titles in an attractive and affordable boxed set! This boxed set includes Science Comics: Coral Reefs, Science Comics: Sharks, and Science Comics: Whales. Also included is a full-colour Science Comics poster perfect for the wall of a library, classroom, or a kid's bedroom!
For GCSE Biology and GCSE Double Award Science Higher tier Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks. Our Student Workbooks build students' understanding, developing the confidence and exam skills they need, whilst providing ready prepared lesson solutions. - Supplements key resources such as textbooks to adapt easily to existing schemes of work - Offers time-saving and economical lesson solutions for both specialist and non-specialist teachers - Provides flexible resource material to reinforce and apply topic understanding throughout the course, as classwork or extension tasks, or for revision - Creates opportunities for self-directed learning and assessment with answers to tasks and activities supplied online - Prepares students to meet the demands of the specification by practising exam technique and developing their literacy skills
In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract! Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacterium who will take you on a journey beyond imagination. Uncover how food is transformed into nutrients! Explore strange and dangerous glands! Behold the wonders of saliva, mucus, and vomit! Writer Jason Viola and illustrator Andy Ristaino provide a trip to the toilet you will never forget! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic--dinosaurs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, robots, and more! Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty-year-old with a secret passion for airplanes, these graphic novels are for you! |
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