What's up in Science?: Puzzles and Problem-Solving Activities to Build Science Literacy, Grades 6-10 by Robert G. Hoehn
	List Price:   $29.95 Unit Price:   $23.96 You Save:   $5.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0787970034 ISBN-13:   9780787970031 Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons; Jossey-Bass Category:   Science Books Pub. Date:   September 2004 Pages:   256 Format:   Trade Paper Ages:   12 to 16 Grades:   6 to 10
Description/Notes
Puzzles and Problem-Solving Activities to Build Science Literacy. What? s Up in Science? offers a rich selection of over 100 reproducible puzzles and literacy-building activities focusing on recent discoveries and issues in the earth, life, and space sciences. Most of the activities are short (15 to 20 minutes) and can be used to introduce standards-based lessons or for homework assignments. Special challenge activities are also included, inviting students to investigate and write about scientific topics. Packed with fun-filled word scrambles, categorization tasks, and writing activities, What? s Up in Science? will develop critical thinking and analytical skills in your students. While solutions are provided for the puzzle exercises, some of the problems are open-ended and have no definitive answers, showing that scientific inquiry generates tough questions and that knowledge changes as new evidence becomes available.