For all science teachers in grades 5-12, here is an exciting collection of ready-to-use lessons, project and lab activities to help student relate basic science concepts and skills to every-day life and answer the question, "Why do I need to know this?" Included are 22 comprehensive, test lessons in five major areas of general science, accompanies by over 150 reproducible student activity sheets to help student understand concrete scientific applications that are interesting and relevant. Each lesson includes a concise introduction to a specific topic, reproducible vocabulary games or puzzles, reproducible lab activities and projects, and complete answer keys. And for easy use, all of theses ready-to-use lessons and activities are printed in a spiral-bound format that folds flat for photocopying of all student activity sheets and organized into five units, each focusing on a different area of the science curriculum: EARTH SCIENCE: Lessons on plate tectonics, rock and soil, weather and water include activities lime "Rockin' and Rollin' in the U.S.A" (earthquake epicenter lab) ..."As the Earth Moves" (plate tectonics vocabulary) ...and "Breaking Up Is Easy to Do" (lab on rock weathering) PHYSICS: Lessons on wave energy, motion, energy/work/power and machines, and electricity feature labs such as "Good Vibration" (wave energy) . .."Up, Up and Away" (heat) ...and "Golf Balls and Their Potential" (potential energy) ASTRONOMY: Lessons on planets, stars, the moon, and space travel include unique projects and activities such as "Star Chamber" (a class project on constellations) ..."Design a Space Craft" (lab) ...and "Cell Trek" (review board game) CHEMISTRY: Lessons covering fats, surface tension of water, hair chemistry, and anthocyanins provide activities like "Home-made Hair Perms" (lab mimicking process of creating a permanent wave) ...and "Recipe for Proteins" (DNA modeling activity) BIOLOGY: Lessons focusing of the blueprint of life (DNA) the basic unit of life, changes and adaptations, tree growth, and ecology feature activities such as "Who Lives in Out Trash?" (composting and food chains) ..."Dead Ringer" (lab on tree growth) ...and "Monstrous Mutation" (lab on effect of mutations on animals' survival skills).
