(Part 2) Top products from r/ScienceTeachers
We found 28 product mentions on r/ScienceTeachers. We ranked the 91 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. A Rock Is Lively (Nature Books)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Chronicle Books
22. Impulls Unitech Toys Fun Fly Stick Magic Levitation Wand Science Toys Electric Static Wand 10 Flying Shapes
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
1.Fun Fly Stick is a portable Van de Graaff generator that separates electrons and protons, causing a positive static charge that gets accumulated on the cardboard control tube.2.The new Dual Action Fun Fly Stick includes 10 Fun Flyers made from thin tinsel which receive the static charge of the wan...
23. Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy, 3rd Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
24. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment (Cartoon Guide Series)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
THE CARTOON GUIDE TO THE ENVIRONMENTWHOLE EARTH DISCIPLINEBIRD ON FIRE
25. Biology: A Community Context Student Edition
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
27. Tutorials In Introductory Physics and Homework Package
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 1
28. Ranking Task Exercises in Physics: Student Edition
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 1
29. E&M TIPERs: Electricity & Magnetism Tasks
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 1
30. Supporting Grade 5-8 Students in Constructing Explanations in Science: The Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning Framework for Talk and Writing
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
31. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
32. Newtonian Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research: nTIPERs (Addison-wesley Series in Educational Innovation)
Sentiment score: 3
Number of reviews: 1
33. BIOLOGY COLORING WOR
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
34. The Anatomy Coloring Book
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Pearson Education
36. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
Great product!
37. Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Author: National Audubon SocietyISBN: 9780394507606
38. National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America (National Audubon Society Field Guides)
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Number of reviews: 1
Random House Audubon Field Guide: Insects & Spiders by Lorus Milne - 9780394507637
>With quizzes, can you use someone else's quizzes? Say another teacher wants to use the same quiz or you're collaborating with someone at another campus.
You can, how easy it is depends on how your school is setting things up how easy it is. If you are collaborating with another AP Physics 1 class, and you want to run pretty much the same stuff, the easiest way would be to share a class with each teacher having their own section. You could share everything, but control your own assignment and due dates, as well as grading only your own stuff.
Otherwise, the way that always works is to have one teacher export the quiz, send it to the other and import it. This however will not allow you to work together on the quiz, just transfer finished quizzes.
Finally, there is also something called Commons, which would allow anyone in the world to share anything, rubrics, assignments, quizzes, whole classes, and everything inbetween. However I am not sure if that is in general release now, or still only in certain districts.
Anyway, here is my go to "New Physics Teacher" list.
Books
TIPERS
TIPERs are a fantastic resource for including conceptual thinking assignments. Answer keys are generally available if you talk to your school's Pearson Rep. IMO, the E/M book is the weakest, in part because it ignores that circuits are a thing. I would start with the first as it is a general overview, and go from there.
General Physics Education
Websites
Youtube
If anyone else has suggestions let me know, I will try to keep an up to date list to post for all of the "I'm new to physics help!" posts. I might add an AP section.
Periodic table with samples of stable elements ~$180, make sure you're getting the one with the actual element samples in it if you go with this, some just have pictures which are neat, but not as good.
Glass Klien Bottle $65
Blue Morpho Butterfly $50
Fun fly stick $25
Megan Lee Studio's Art Prints $5 - $600, she has a lot of great prints if your friend has some favorite scientists. Great decor for home or classroom.
Which science discipline does your friend teach/ majored in?
What are your students' ages and your teaching context?
For upper elementary through high school, I highly recommend attending a session for Project WILD, Project W.E.T. and/or Project Learning Tree. I worked for many years as an environmental educator (outreach and place-based) before becoming a full time school teacher. I used those three curricula as inspiration for a lot of my outdoor ed and continue to do so in the classroom. If you have the opportunity to take kids outside and generating real data, that's powerful stuff.
For older/more advanced students, there are several great labs in [this lab guide] (https://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Science-Learning-Laboratories-Applied/dp/0470087676) (college level but scale-able for high schoolers)
If you can get to a gym or playing field and your students aren't too self conscious, the Project WILD activity "Oh Deer!" (lots of variations free online) is bar none the best modeling activity for carrying capacity and sparks a lot of great ecological conversations.
I've got more if you have particular goals!
Get him a raspberry Pi. He'll love it.
If that doesn't work then get him a shit ton of bowling balls. You can never have enough bowling balls. Between pendulums, waves, and giant Newton's cradle. You can usually get free bowling balls from bowling alleys if you say that you're a teacher and you need them for class. Or to blow stuff up.
Not cool enough - how about some Lego key chains. Always fun.
He's a physics guy so how about "A Brief History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. Great, quick read. Want a similar book that is a bit more academic - then go with "The Scientists" by John Gibbin. Want a similar book but from the perspective of uncredited discoveries - try "Lost Discoveries" by Dick Teresi. All great books about the history of science.
Got a load of money - sign him up for the AAPT. Amazing journal.
Any of the Feynman books are good reads as well. Or any Oliver Sacks but they tend to run on the chem side.
Get him a copy of The new world of Mr. Tompkins
goes to quantum land(or something like that - I'm on my phone and I'll edit the comment when I can).I LOVE being a lower school science teacher. It is so much fun.
Rocks and minerals are a slightly hard topic (no pun intended) for a demo lesson, in my opinion - a lot of the lesson ideas either require you to have a bunch of rock kits, which are much too expensive to buy, or involve growing crystals over multiple days or weeks. I also recommend getting as much information as you can about what they've already done so you don't repeat a topic or activity exactly.
I've done both the crayon rock cycle that /u/acChordance mentions and also a clay rock cycle based on a GEMS book I have. Here is a version of that lesson.
You might also base a lesson off of The Big Rock by Bruce Hiscock (might be especially appropriate if you live in the northeast US). You could relatedly do something about glaciers and the ice age if that's relevant to your area.
Another beautiful picture book is A Rock Is Lively - you could use it as inspiration for a rock observation activity if you could scrounge up enough interesting rocks for the kids to each have one.
Let us know what you figure out!
In would recommend checking out Nasco . Request a catalog because sometimes their site is cumbersome to find what you want.
They have some neat slides with household objects, insects, hair, snake skin, money, etc slides as well as the usual ones. Their prices are often cheaper than Carolina. They offer free shipping and give schools 25% off.
If you have agar, consider buying a gel electrophoresis kit. It's expensive but it is new technology that our students will use if they go into science.
If you want dissectables, check out Bio Corp their specimens are better quality than Carolina and often cheaper. They have a big variety. Personally, I like the rat.
Buy yourself a Biology Coloring Book
Here's a CER template that I like.
There are some web pages such as http://sciencearguments.weebly.com/ and http://www.argumentationtoolkit.org/
Have you read the book that likely started it all? McNeill, K. L. & Krajcik, J. (2012). Supporting grade 5-8 students in constructing explanations in science: The claim, evidence and reasoning framework for talk and writing. New York, NY: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.
There is no 'complete' text book on fluid mechanics; it's a massive area of study, and there are thousands of publications every year that move it forward.
I really think your best bet is to pick up an introductory book and go from there. Different sub fields and specialisms apply different areas of fluid mechanics in different ways. And don't forget that turbulence - which is a massive part of fluid mechanics - is still an unsolved problem. If you then start looking at complex materials like slurries, granular materials, and other 2-phase mixtures then you're getting into realms of really rather extraordinary complexity.
I find this to be a pretty good starting place (although I have the 4th edition - I haven't seen the 5th) : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fluid-Mechanics-Pijush-K-Kundu/dp/0123821002/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496312409&sr=1-1&keywords=kundu
I took a class in college called "Scientific Revolutions" about the shifts in scientific paradigm throughout history. One of the textbooks in the course was The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. It was rather enjoyable and extremely informative. I wish I kept my copy. Amazon has a bunch of related suggestions as well.
(https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083)
Perhaps this will spark some ideas?
Something like The Cartoon Guide to the Environment might help. It's funny and there is some poetic license but that could be a good place to start a conversation with students about thinking critically about what they read. There are also other Cartoon Guides by the same people.
https://www.amazon.com/Biology-Community-Context-Student-McGraw-Hill/dp/0078306949
One of the profs I worked for as a TA for a university intro astronomy course used Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy. It contains worksheets that are designed to address common misconceptions that students have. The Table of contents can be found going here and clicking the 'table of contents' link on the left had side.
Also: bio books
Ernst Haeckel: Art Forms in Nature Coloring Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764974718/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_KJQcBbKBS180V
Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel https://www.amazon.com/dp/3791319906/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_vLQcBb6P811G0
The Anatomy Coloring Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321832019/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VMQcBb9XJGXX9
Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394507606/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_7OQcBb7QBN95M
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects and Spiders: North America (National Audubon Society Field Guides (Paperback)) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394507630/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_5PQcBb0PZQYNW
Preserved specimen: Real Bat Specimens Science Classroom Specimen for Science Education https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072BCCTL1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZSQcBbE7HYPN2
Real Snake Skeleton Specimen in Acrylic Block Paperweights Science Classroom Specimens for Science Education https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078581LLZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_OTQcBbN1W3JWE
Models:
Wellden Medical Anatomical Human Skull Model, 3-part, Numbered, Life Size https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EKC5SHS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YZQcBbCF8D61B
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan.
An inspiring push for the idea of scientific thinking as a mental tool set for everyone, filled with examples of what can go wrong when it is not applied.