Crime Scene Investigation:  Casting students in the roles of reporters, lawyers, and detectives at the scene of a crime, this book engages students in the drama of crime investigation.  Excitement builds as they examine clues then make a case and bring it to trial.  These interdisciplinary activities help build valuable thinking, problem solving, and public speaking skills while developing knowledge in areas of language, science, history, and more.  Includes instructions and reproducibles.  130 pp, Grades 5-12

#LU86379               $22.99

Hands-On-Science:  For the Active Learning Classroom.  A must have resource for science teachers.  It offers 90 exciting, inexpensive, and easy-to-use experiments that are ready for immediate implementation into daily science lessons.  232 pp, Grades K-College

#LU86379               $19.99

Catch Them Thinking In Science:  A Handbook of Classroom Strategies.  Use science to make lifelong thinkers of our students.  Included are complete lesson plans, teacher-tested techniques, interactive learning strategies, and more.  128 pp.  Grades 5-12

#SL35559                $26.99

Brain-Compatible Science: With new ideas and ready-to-use lessons, this resource shakes teachers out of old habits and revitalizes them with new ways of thinking about teaching, learning, assessing, and designing science curriculum.  288 pp.  Grades K-College 

#SL70817                $38.99

Thinking Connections:  Concept Maps for Life Science.  This book complements student-generated concept mapping in two ways:  1) by showing students who are new to concept mapping how to map and 2) by helping students who are already familiar with concept mapping learn how to become better mappers.  Teaching suggestions and answers included.  135 reproducible pp.  Book A grades 4-6 ability, 120 maps.  Book B, grades 7-12 ability, 70 maps. 

#CT5102 Book A   $24.99

#CT5101 Book B    $24.99

The Inventive Mind in Science: Creative Thinking Activities!    This book offers an in-depth discussion of creative thinking and its role in science, along with more than 50 exciting, mind-stretching activities that integrate the processes of creativity and invention into the science curriculum.  The purpose is to help you foster imagination, creative thinking, problem solving, and higher order thinking skills in students.  Concepts are articulated with word games, visual puzzles, and other reproducible projects.  241 pp. Grades 4-8

#LU77477               $21.99