Contact Info.
Products List
 
PA13-10-1 Victorian Science and Literature, Part I, 4-Vols/Set.
  Dawson, Gowan/ 9781848930919
 
  This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts will collect rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources will cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component ˇV what might be called 'the literature of science' ˇV and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters. As the cultural authority of science increased during the nineteenth century, the boundary between literature and science became more insistently and probingly explored, bringing into question whether it was possible to demarcate science from poetry, literature or art. The growing influence of science throughout Victorian culture meant that it began to permeate every aspect of life; from industry, urbanization and the spread of imperialism, to religion and the impact of Darwinism. Each volume will focus on an important theme from current scholarship on the cultural history of Victorian science. The work will begin with an extensive general introduction, then an introduction will precede the material in each volume, which will feature headnotes and explanatory notes throughout. The collection will appeal to all those with a scholarly interest in the history of science and literature, as well as more general Victorian social history, empire studies and occultism.
SA13-390 Diversity and Equity in Science Education: Research, Policy, and Practice.
  Lee, Okhee/ 9780807750698
 
  Two leading science educators provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-field analysis of current trends in the research, policy, and practice of science education. This book offers valuable insights into why gaps in science achievement among racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups persist, and points toward practical means of narrowing or eliminating these gaps. Lee and Buxton examine instructional practices, scienceˇVcurriculum materials (including computer technology), assessment, teacher education, school organization, federal and state policies, and home-school connections. Book features: * A synthesis of the emerging body of research in the field of science education and its application to practice and policy. * A description of effective practices for narrowing science achievement gaps among demographic subgroups of students. * A focus on the unique learning needs of English language learners. * An analysis of major science education initiatives, interventions, and programs that have been successful with nonmainstream students.
SA13-387 Diversity and Equity in Science Education: Research, Policy, and Practice.
  Lee, Okhee/ 9780807750681
 
  Two leading science educators provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-field analysis of current trends in the research, policy, and practice of science education. This book offers valuable insights into why gaps in science achievement among racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups persist, and points toward practical means of narrowing or eliminating these gaps. Lee and Buxton examine instructional practices, scienceˇVcurriculum materials (including computer technology), assessment, teacher education, school organization, federal and state policies, and home-school connections. Book features: * A synthesis of the emerging body of research in the field of science education and its application to practice and policy. * A description of effective practices for narrowing science achievement gaps among demographic subgroups of students. * A focus on the unique learning needs of English language learners. * An analysis of major science education initiatives, interventions, and programs that have been successful with nonmainstream students.
SA13-379 Preschool Pathways to Science (PrePS): Facilitating Scientific Ways of Thinking, Talking, Doing, and Understanding.
  Gelman, Rochel/ 9781598570441
 
  This reader-friendly guide gives educators the guidance they need to work PrePS into their existing program; sample schedules designed for the preschool classroom; and detailed sample activities they can do right away or use as templates for their own creative lessons. And with the book's assessment guidelines, teachers will know PrePS is having a measurable effect on the classroom environment and student learning. Start young children on PrePS today, and help them develop the critical thinking skills they'll need to succeedˇXin science class, in other academic subjects, and in life.
PA13-9 World of Carolus Clusius, The.: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610.
  Egmond, Florike/ 9781848930087
 
  This vibrant study explores the way in which European knowledge of the natural world was transformed during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Based on a large collection of primary source material ˇV mainly correspondence ˇV Egmond investigates horticultural techniques, fashions in the collection of rare plants, botanical experimentation and methods of scientific evaluation, as well as tracking the exchange of knowledge. Central to this activity is the figure of Carolus Clusius (1526ˇV1609), the first truly scientific botanist. The transformation of people's everyday experience with plants is shown through the practical manifestations of this newly found fervour: the growth of collecting, garden display and fascination with the rare and exotic.
PA13-8 Sublime Invention, The.: Ballooning in Europe, 1783-1820.
  Lynn, Michael R/ 9781848930162
 
  Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness. By the end of the eighteenth century, scientific matters had come to occupy a significant place in peopleˇ¦s lives at almost every level of society. Using balloons as a case study, Lynn traces the dissemination and appropriation of this new science up and down the social and economic scale, exploring the cultural importance of ballooning at the birth of large-scale, mass consumption of science. Spectacular by nature, ballooning has inspired historians to tell a few stories, but has not come under the intense scrutiny it deserves. Rather than simply narrate a chronology of discovery, this book offers a cultural and social analysis of ballooning over the first quarter century after their invention. There is a paradox at the centre of ballooning: on the one hand a mass popular culture emerged surrounding balloons, they captured the hearts and imagination of the entire continent and beyond and became a symbol of Enlightenment, state power, and scientific progress; on the other hand, they failed to fulfill their technological potential.
PA13-7 Regionalizing Science: Placing Knowledges in Victorian England.
  Naylor, Simon/ 9781851966363
 
  Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments. Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed peopleˇ¦s relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
PA13-6 Historiography of the Chemical Revolution, The.: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science.
  McEvoy, John G/ 9781848930308
 
  Until recently, the Chemical Revolution was the Cinderella of scientific revolutions, demurely wedged between her noisier and more noticeable sisters ˇV the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century (which saw the birth of modern science), and the Darwinian Revolution of the nineteenth century (which evoked passionate debates about the origin of life and human destiny) ˇV the more prosaic issues associated with the Chemical Revolution attracted the interest of only a handful of historians and historically minded chemists. The last fifty years, however, have witnessed almost as many studies of the Chemical Revolution as occurred in the preceding century. This study offers a critical survey of past and present interpretations of the Chemical Revolution designed to lend clarity and direction to the current ferment of views. Concerned with interpretive patterns rather than particulars, it relates this sequence of interpretive styles ˇV positivism, post-positivism and the sociology of scientific knowledge ˇV to the emergence and development of philosophical and sociological models of science. It explores within this framework a range of different interpretations of the Chemical Revolution, noting conflicts and tensions between rationalist and relativist, realist and antirealist, materialist and idealist, and essentialist and nominalist philosophical sensibilities. Finally, it outlines an alternative, historical interpretation of the Chemical Revolution, highlighting continuity and discontinuity, identity and difference, permanence and mutability, in the phenomenon of scientific change.
SA13-376 WISE Science: Web-Based Inquiry in the Classroom.
  Slotta, James D./ 9780807749494
 
  This book shares the lessons learned by a large community of educational researchers and science teachers as they designed, developed, and investigated a new technology-enhanced learning environment known as WISE: The Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment. WISE offers a collection of free, customizable curriculum projects on topics central to the science standards as well as guidance for teachers on how these Internet-based projects can be used to improve learning and instruction in their science classrooms (grades 6ˇV12). Hundreds of teachers and over 100,000 students have learned from WISE projects taught in English, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Chinese, and Korean. Highlights of WISE include: * A wealth of findings about the WISE curriculum and assessments from 10 years of research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. * A collection of classroom-tested, inquiry-based curriculum projects that are available to every classroom via the Internet, free of charge. * An accumulation of successful practices, patterns, and principles to guide classroom teachers and curriculum designers. * Effective models of professional development and school partnerships that support teachers in integrating inquiry-based methods in their own curriculum. * Key strategies and recommendations for policymakers.
SA13-376 WISE Science: Web-Based Inquiry in the Classroom.
  Slotta, James D./ 9780807749500
 
  This book shares the lessons learned by a large community of educational researchers and science teachers as they designed, developed, and investigated a new technology-enhanced learning environment known as WISE: The Web-Based Inquiry Science Environment. WISE offers a collection of free, customizable curriculum projects on topics central to the science standards as well as guidance for teachers on how these Internet-based projects can be used to improve learning and instruction in their science classrooms (grades 6ˇV12). Hundreds of teachers and over 100,000 students have learned from WISE projects taught in English, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Chinese, and Korean. Highlights of WISE include: * A wealth of findings about the WISE curriculum and assessments from 10 years of research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. * A collection of classroom-tested, inquiry-based curriculum projects that are available to every classroom via the Internet, free of charge. * An accumulation of successful practices, patterns, and principles to guide classroom teachers and curriculum designers. * Effective models of professional development and school partnerships that support teachers in integrating inquiry-based methods in their own curriculum. * Key strategies and recommendations for policymakers.
SA13-377 Why Science?
  Trefil, James/ 9780807748312
 
  Trefil knows that initiating a national scientific literacy program wonˇ¦t be easy, but he convincingly argues that it is essential to our national future. After reading this book, you will agree that, whatever the cost of teaching scientific literacy, we simply canˇ¦t afford not to heed his advice. In this enjoyable read, a well-known critic of the status quo in science education: Describes the woeful state of science knowledge today. Explains why todayˇ¦s science education is insufficient for tomorrowˇ¦s needs. Tackles the key topics of ˇ§scientific literacyˇ¨ and explains how to teach them. Confronts headline issues, including stem cell research, global warming, cloning, and ˇ§intelligent design.ˇ¨ Shows why science education is essential to an informed citizenry and how scientific literacy is achievable. Suggests a middle way between the two prevailing approaches to science education: ˇ§deep and narrowˇ¨ vs. ˇ§broad but shallow."
SA13-363 Designing Coherent Science Education: Implications for Curriculum, Instruction, and Policy.
  Kali, Yael/ 9780807749135
 
  This edited collection synthesizes current research on the most promising methods and models for designing coherent science instruction. Arising from the National Science Foundation-funded Delineating and Evaluating Coherent Instructional Designs for Education (DECIDE) project, this volume combines the insights of researchers from two Centers for Teaching and Learning. The book offers principles and criteria for design of instruction leading to coherent understanding of science. It discusses how courses can help students interpret contemporary scientific dilemmas like global warming and take full advantage of technology. Too often in todayˇ¦s science classes, students learn isolated facts rather than connections among ideas and are unprepared to apply scientific thinking and principles outside of checking off answers on standardized tests. Designing Coherent Science Education demonstrates how effective instruction prepares learners to connect scientific principles to the schoolyard and beyond. Designing Coherent Science Education offers policy recommendations to transform science courses so that they meet the needs of all students and lure more students into scientific careers. The collection further addresses how to use technology in the classrooms to design coherent science instruction.
Online Science Learning: Best Practices and Technologies.
  Downing, Kevin/ 9781599049861
 
 
SA13-358 Primary Science: Knowledge and Understanding.
  Peacock, Graham/ 9781844450985
 
  With secure subject knowledge and understanding, trainees develop confidence and authority and are better equipped to become effective and creative teachers. This coursebook has been written specifically to help trainee primary teachers develop their science subject knowledge. This new, third edition has been completely revised and updated to match the new QTS Standards, and reflects latest thinking from the Primary National Strategy and other recent initiatives. Material has been reorganised where appropriate and research summaries brought completely up-to-date. All the popular, existing features are joined by new tasks to help trainees develop the key skill of reflection.
SA13-358 Primary Science: Extending Knowledge in Practice.
  Roden, Judith/ 9781844451067
 
  Still the biggest concern for many on initial teacher training courses is the acquisition of subject knowledge and the ability to translate that into effective teaching. This book extends and deepens traineesˇ¦ science subject knowledge in a manner that assists them to use it more actively in planning and implementing lessons.
SA13-357 Primary Science: Teaching Theory and Practice.
  Sharp, John/ 9781844450978
 
  This invaluable guide is designed for all trainees working towards Qualified Teacher Status. Covering essential skills of planning, monitoring and assessment and class management, it relates these specifically to primary science teaching. This new, third edition has been completely revised to reflect the latest QTS Standards, Primary National Strategy and other initiatives. Popular, existing features are joined by new reflective tasks and ˇ§Moving Onˇ¨ sections, helping trainees build on each chapter and apply their understanding to whole-class issues and longer-term scenarios. New material, for example on childrenˇ¦s talk and engagement, has been added to bring the text fully up-to-date.
SA13-344 Science Education: Models and Networking of Student Research Training under 21.
  Csermely, Peter/ 9781586037215
 
  For those, who will read this book, it will be obvious why to engage in scientific education of talented students, as early as possible to develop the critical minds or scientific method judgments. There are multitudes of initiatives all around the world; and the number of these programs are steadily increasing. However, most of these initiatives are local programs connected to one or two motivated teachers or professors. They work in isolation, often struggling with the lack of resources and stay unrecognized to the general public. This situation was a trigger to establish an international network, called the Network of Youth Excellence (NYEX) in 2004. The members of this network are organizations with a proven devotion to promoting scientific research among young students (i.e. under the age of 21). All member organizations delegate a representative to the Board, which is the main decision making body in important issues. The Board selects the Executive Board by entrusting a chairperson and two vice-chairs among themselves. The Executive Board is responsible for implementing causes, making everyday decisions and coordinating network activities.
SA13-342 Primary Science: Audit and Test.
  Byrne, Jeremy/ 9781844451098
 
  This book supports trainees on primary initial teacher training courses where a secure knowledge and understanding of science is required for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). A rigorous test enables trainees to identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and this can be revisited in order to monitor and evaluate progress towards QTS. Trainees are able to direct their studies more usefully and quickly develop confidence in topics they find difficult. This edition is fully up to date with the 2007 QTS Standards.
Towards Some Basics of Nonlinearities in Mathematical Sciences .
  Sinha, Dilip K./ 9781843317029
 
  This book is primarily an attempt to familiarize the reader with nonlinear systems, in particular qualitative characteristics in a variety of systems amenable to mathematization. Differential equations form the bulk of the book, while the basics of nonlinearities are presented through theorems and problems, aiming to bring out the essence of some aspects of nonlinearities in the emerging discipline of mathematical science. Qualitative studies that reflect the evolution of nonlinearities have not thus far been approached in this way.
VA08-233 Science Education, 4-Vols/Set.
  Gilbert, John K./ 9780415342254
 
  Education in, about, and through the sciences - physics, chemistry, biology, earth science--has grown rapidly in the last 150 years. Starting from the twin bases of an elective provision for those likely to become scientists and engineers of informal provision for the general populace, it has evolved into a core component of compulsory education across the globe. Above this rises an edifice of provision at university level and beyond, both formal and informal. This expansion has been justified by the number of decisions in democratic societies, and that it increasingly impinges on the personal lives of individuals. This collection of papers drawn from a world-wide literature and reflecting diverse cultural traditions provides a resource for scholars seeking to unravel the historical trajectories of the complexities of science education. The papers reprinted in this set enable researchers to understand the nature of current provisions in the field, and to identify the likely future directions of development.
SA13-335 Science Education for Everyday Life: Evidence-Based Practice.
  Aikenhead, Glen S./ 9780807746349
 
  This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to scienceˇX approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and culture. Glen Aikenhead, an expert in the field of culturally sensitive science education, summarizes major worldwide historical findings, focuses on present thinking, and offers evidence in support of classroom practice. This highly accessible text covers curriculum policy, teaching materials, teacher orientations and teacher education, student learning, culture studies, and future research. Featuring important alternative views on the teaching of science, this text: Describes an approach to teaching science (grades 6-12) that animates studentsˇ¦ self-identities, encouraging their future contributions to society as savvy citizens and productive workers. Addresses the tension between educationally sound ideas and the political realities of schools. Presents evidence-based challenges to traditional thinking about school science, illuminating many productive directions for future research.
SA13-326 This is Science!: Learning Science through Songs and Stories for Key Stage 1.(1 Book+CD-ROM)
  Harding, Tim/ 9781855391796
 
  The 14 graded units comprehensively cover the Key Stage 1 Science Programme of Study and QCA Study Units for Years 1 and 2. The CD-ROM allows you to display the song lyrics for singing along, and the stories for shared reading. Or you can display just the words or just the pictures ˇV you choose!
Exciting Ict in Science. (With CD-ROM)
  Hegarty, Fergus/ 9781855392069
 
  Exciting ICT in Science is packed with examples of successful teaching practices and presents a whole range of tried and tested activities. From experiments that incorporate applications as simple as Word to interactive virtual laboratories; from using a digital camera to plan out an investigation, to interactive whiteboards coupled with the internet to bring the outside world into the classroom ˇV all the examples are designed to really engage and motivate children in the learning of science. Written by senior science teachers at Cramlington Community High School, the foremost ˇĄaccelerated learningˇ¦ school in the UK, this book demonstrates how to combine ICT with the popular four-stage Accelerated Learning Cycle on a daily basis.
SA13-323 Using Technology Wisely: The Keys to Success in Schools.
  Wenglinsky, Harold/ 9780807745830
 
  In this book, for the first time, national data is used to measure technologyˇ¦s effectiveness on student academic performance in three subjectsˇXmathematics, science, and reading. To uncover key implications for policy and practice, the author links the test scores of more than 40,000 students who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress with reports by their teachers of various aspects of technology use.
SA13-320 Science Education: Best Practices of Research Training for Students under 21.
  Csermely, P./ 9781586035044
 
  The book is a unique survey of the best science education practices with special emphasis on scientific research training of motivated young students up to 21. Its content provides a great help to all teachers dealing with talented students and to all scientists and activists in the field of science education. A key point is the science education of high school students, who are in a very susceptible age to ask clear questions about the world around them, and to seek answers in a methodological way, as science does. This is the age of self-test, where the adolescent tries his strength and capabilities. Scientific research provides a unique and unparalleled opportunity for outstanding achievements even in this young age. The hierarchy-free atmosphere of a good scientific group gives the talented high school student a long-sought freedom and a unique opportunity to break from the original social and economical circumstances of the family. Identification and organisation of these usually highly talented students shows them that they are not alone, and gives a lot of friends for these young fellows who are often considered ˇ§oddˇ¨ and ˇ§funnyˇ¨ in a regular school. Moreover, research training makes the social circles surrounding these students (schoolmates, family, relatives, etc.) understand science and breaks the alienation from scientific research in a significant part of the society. The book summarizes the best contributions of a workshop helping to establish more of these research training practices world-wide. Participants of the workshop formed a Network of Youth Excellence, which can be reached at www.nyex.info. The movement received the Descartes Award of Science Communication from the European Union in 2004.
VD08-21 Student's Guide to Earth Science, A. 4-Vols/Set.
  / 9780313329012
 
  This four-volume set presents an overview of earth science from the earliest observations of ancient peoples to discoveries of today's scientists. Earth science includes astronomy, geology, meteorology, and oceanography. The first volume, "Words and Terms," defines important words in these sciences. The contributions made by such scientists as Galileo, Sir Edmund Hailey, and Florence Bascom are described in the second volume, "Important People," which highlights contributions made by women and minority groups to a traditionally male profession. "Developments and Discoveries," the third volume, traces the history and development of this science, and the fourth volume, "Debatable Issues," presents the most hotly debated topics today, such as space exploration and global warming. Volume 1: Words and Terms Volume 2: Important People Volume 3: Developments and Discoveries Volume 4: Debatable Issues Set Features: BL 720 pages in 5 volumes BL 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 BL 2-color interior BL 300 Photographs, Maps, Charts, and Graphs BL Sidebars and Fact boxes BL Primary Documents BL Glossary BL Cumulative Index (in each volume). Curriculum Themes: BL Geology (types of rock, layers of the earth, earthquakes) BL Astronomy (structure of the universe, planets and stars within it) BL Meteorology (clouds, weather) BL Oceanography BL History of earth science BL Famous people in earth science BL Global warming BL Natural resources.
SA13-356 Developing Primary Science.
  Sharp, John/ 9781844450022
 
  This book will help trainee and qualified teachers to explore science education in greater depth, and will demonstrate how evidence-based research actually informs classroom practice. It provides strategies and activities to help deliver the curriculum, and opportunites to reflect critically on practice through focused questioning.
SA13-333 New Science Teacher's Handbook, The: How to Be an Effectice and Successful Teacher.
  Guttridge, John/ 9781842850411
 
 
VA03-55 Scientific Travellers, 1790-1877, 9-Vols/Set.
  Knight, David/ 9780415289313
 
  This collection will bring together a selection of works by travellers studying natural philosophy as well as natural history. The set will cover a wide geographical spread, including accounts from Australia, Asia, Africa and South America. The style of writing and subject matter are also diverse. Some offer more reflective writing, mingling scientific observation with romantic musing and high style, others have a more specific focus - such as Bates description of Mimicry in butterflies in Bali. The first volume includes a general introduction to the collection and each succeeding volume also includes a new introduction by the editor, which places each work in its historical and intellectual context.
SA13-383 How Social and Emotional Development Add Up: Getting Results in Math and Science Education.
  Haynes, Norris M./ 9780807743065
 
 
 

 

2009, Unifacmanu Company.