Two new SCIENCE GATE books are now available. They address the following National Science Education Standards:

• SCIENCE as Inquiry
• Properties and changes of properties of MATTER

The Nature of Matter

How would you identify an unknown substance? Students answer this essential question by designing and performing experiments that illustrate and derive the basic principles of matter. Why is it important to know about mass and volume? How many types of substances are there? What are acids and bases? The answers will be revealed through guided inquiry.

Upon completion of this 4-week unit of study, designed to meet the National Science Education Standards for "Properties and Changes of Properties in Matter", students may submit their "essential question" answers to Ciencia Viva, Inc. Each submission receives a scored critique from a professional science educator.

Students will demonstrate the following understandings and abilities¹:

• Understanding properties and changes of properties in matter
• Understanding scientific inquiry processes
• Identifying questions that can be answered through scientific investigations
• Designing and conducting a scientific investigation
• Using appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret data
• Developing descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence
• Thinking critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations
• Recognizing and analyzing alternative explanations and predictions
• Communicating scientific procedures and explanations
• Using mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry

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The Nature of Science

A book version of The Mystery of the Rising Water game. Addresses the Inquiry standards for scientific methodology in an in-depth fashion. Contains activities and assessment for a 4-week unit of study.

Students will demonstrate the following understandings and abilities¹:

• Understanding scientific inquiry processes
• Identifying questions that can be answered through scientific investigations
• Designing and conducting a scientific investigation
• Using appropriate tools and techniques to gather, analyze, and interpret
• Developing descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence
• Thinking critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations
• Recognizing and analyzing alternative explanations and predictions
• Communicating scientific procedures and explanations
• Using mathematics in all aspects of scientific inquiry

(Paperback, SEE PRICING OPTIONS)

¹Taken from the National Science Education Standards (National Academy Press, 1996)