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Connecting to Social Studies
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Geometry activities from many cultures
 Date: 1997 Grade(s): 06 - 10 Cost: 20.95 ENC#: 018170
This book is a structured set of reproducible worksheets for teaching geometry in a multicultural context. It consists of 65 worksheets covering such geometrical topics as art, measurement, mapmaking, architecture, and trigonometry, each placed in cultural contexts ranging from Ancient Greece to Native American Indian and Modern Africa to the Aztecs.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,018170,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Bioethics forums
 Date: 1995 Grade(s): 09 - Post-Sec. Cost: 375.00 ENC#: 018903
This laser disc, accompanied by a teacher's manual and resource book for biology students in grades 9 to 12, contains twelve forums that can be used in as interactive classroom activities. The forums explore societal dilemmas arising from recent breakthroughs in biology, genetics, and biomedical technology.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,018903,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Water
Date: 1993 Grade(s): 04 - 06 Cost: 9.95 ENC#: 007710
This series, designed by teachers for grades 4 to 6, consists of whole language thematic units with integrated hands-on activities involving children in reading, writing, listening, observing, practicing poetry, acting, and doing. Each book in the series includes summaries of two to four children's books with related lesson plans and related activities; across the curriculum activities in language arts (including daily writing suggestions), math, science, social studies, art, music, and life skills (physical education, cooking, and others); suggestions and patterns for bulletin boards and unit management plans; group projects to foster cooperative learning; a culminating activity which requires students to synthesize their learning; and a bibliography.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,007710,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Fostering sustainable behavior: an introduction to community-based social marketing
Date: 1999 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: 14.95 ENC#: 019475
This book discusses the use of community-based marketing strategies to educate the public about environmental issues. Emphasizing the need to adopt sustainable behaviors, the text identifies the common barriers to wide-scale adoption and suggests ways in which these obstacles can be overcome.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,019475,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Mathematics from many cultures. Level B.
 Date: 1993 Grade: 01 Cost: 79.00 ENC#: 011255
This kit, developed for grade 1as part of the MATHEMATICS FROM MANY CULTURES series, integrates multicultural studies and mathematics by encouraging children to investigate the cultural origins of numbers and counting. Each kit in the series uses brightly colored posters and Big Books to reinforce mathematics concepts and to help children see how these areas connect with a diversity of cultural backgrounds and experiences.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,011255,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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People and the planet: lessons for a sustainable future
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 06 - 08 Cost: 23.00 ENC#: 012006
This spiral-bound book, designed for teachers of grades 6 to 8, contains 30 hands-on activities that explore human population growth, natural resource use, solid waste management, biodiversity, social justice, and community well-being. Lessons are organized into four main sections, which begin with a reproducible student reading that offers background information pertaining to topics that are covered in the section's activities.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,012006,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Decisions based on science
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 19.95 ENC#: 012221
This book, published for grades 9 to 12 by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), contains lessons and activities designed to help students use scientific information to make everyday decisions. The book is divided into three parts.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,012221,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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The life cycle of everyday stuff
Date: 2001 Grade(s): 08 - 12 Cost: 19.95 ENC#: 019470
This collection of seven investigations, developed for students in grades 8-12 through a National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) project, examines the life cycle of manufactured products from design to disposal. Key scientific concepts such as energy transformation and the relationship between structure and function provide the basis for exploring the components, materials, and durability of various common objects.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,019470,00.shtm
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The chemistry of health
Date: 2000 Grade(s): 09 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 020244
This 66-page booklet created by the National Institutes of Health, for a high school or early college audience, describes cutting edge chemistry and biochemistry research, which contributes to greater understanding of human health. The book consists of five chapters, each of which contains an interview with a scientist, and a set of comprehensive review questions.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020244,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Fourscore and 7: investigating math in American history
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 05 - 08 Cost: 14.95 ENC#: 020727
This teacher resource book, designed for grades 5 through 8, contains lessons and activities that integrate historical facts or events into the mathematic class. Each chapter begins by extracting data from background information, charts, and graphs from a particular event.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020727,00.shtm
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Kidbits: more than 1,500 eye popping charts, graphs, maps, and visuals...
Date: 2001 Grade(s): 04 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020725
This reference book contains statistics for teenage and pre-teenage demographics on topics of interest to these age groups. Data is arranged and presented solely in a visual format that integrates illustrations, icons, and other graphics with full-color charts, tables, and maps.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020725,00.shtm
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The Titanic in the classroom
  ENC Digital Dozen Site
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018942
URL: http://www2.nexus.edu.au/Teachstud/titanic2/home/titic1.htm
This World Wide Web (WWW) site contains eight student research projects that explore the mysteries of the Titanic using a specially developed database of Titanic-related information found at this site. Originally published by the Department of Education Training and Employment (South Australia), the database is searchable by a variety of passenger and crew characteristics.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,018942,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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The power of numbers: a teacher's guide to mathematics in a social studies context : an interdisciplinary curriculum
Date: 1993 Grade(s): 06 - 09 Cost: ENC#: 014176
This guide for an integrated mathematics and social studies curriculum contains lesson plans and activities for learning math in the context of real-world decision making. Contexts include polling, studying trends in census data, and designing a public rail transportation system for Los Angeles.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,014176,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Crashed, smashed, and mashed: a trip to junkyard heaven
Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 06 Cost: 14.95 ENC#: 019241
This children's book follows the progress of crashed and smashed cars as they proceed through the recycling process in junkyard heaven. The story, which takes place at Gates Salvage Yard in Hardwick, Vermont, explains how incoming automotive wreckages are drained of their fluids and then stripped for spare parts.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,019241,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Through the eyes of explorers: minds-on math and mapping
Date: 1994 Grade(s): 05 - 09 Cost: 18.95 ENC#: 016207
This teacher resource book for grades 5 to 9, part of the ACTIVITIES INTEGRATING MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE (AIMS) series, introduces mapping with interdisciplinary units based on historical themes. The mathematical focus includes reasoning, measurement, and geometry in the real world.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,016207,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Ice cream truck
 Date: 2000 Grade(s): 02 - 06 Cost: 89.95 ENC#: 017349
This CD-ROM, for students in grades 2 to 6, contains a simulation game for running an ice cream delivery business with the goal of making a profit. The game features a map with the ice cream factory in the center and a series of roads leading to four possible sites for selling ice cream.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,017349,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Trash and the environment
 Date: 1999 Grade(s): 03 - 05 Cost: 59.95 ENC#: 020364
This videotape, designed for students in grades 3 to 5 as part of the REAL WORLD SCIENCE I series, explores what happens to trash, litter, and solid waste after it is thrown away. Viewers listen to student host, Cassie, as she describes Earth's natural recycling process and explains how humans have altered this process.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020364,00.shtm
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Newton's Apple program 1011
Date: 1992 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: ENC#: 006640
Newton's Apple is a science series on public television that answers viewers' questions about science, nature, technology, and the world around us. Each episode is hosted by David Heil, and consists of hands-on demonstrations and interviews with experts, teachers, and naturalists.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,006640,00.shtm
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Science for all Americans
Date: 1990 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: 15.95 ENC#: 018805
This book consists of a set of recommendations on what understandings and ways of thinking are essential for scientific literacy. The majority of the book discusses the content to be learned while the remaining chapters cover teaching, reform, and future actions.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,018805,00.shtm
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Changing climate?
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 129.00 ENC#: 020453
This videotape, as part of the FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES & SCIENCE series, investigates the dynamics between scientists and politicians on the topic of global warming. The threat of a global climatic change has been an issue of concern for many scientists for a couple of decades; however, they have only determined in the past decade that the actions of humans have a direct effect on the world's climate.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020453,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Is democracy fair?: the mathematics of voting and apportionment
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 07 - 12 Cost: 14.95 ENC#: 020730
This book integrates mathematics with social studies by offering activities that explore different types of election decision procedures with mathematical methods. One South African co-author was inspired to begin writing this book as he watched his country emerge from apartheid and struggle with the question of what a fair election is.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020730,00.shtm
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Chemicals, health, environment, and me 2 (CHEM-2): enhanced program
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 04 - 06 Cost: ENC#: 020715
This hands-on kit, developed by the Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP), is designed to help students in grades 4 to 6 understand the nature of chemicals and how they interact with the environment. Three boxes of laboratory equipment (enough for a class of thirty two) support fifteen topics of study that explore everyday applications of scientific concepts.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020715,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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The multicultural math classroom: bringing in the world
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 01 - 08 Cost: 25.00 ENC#: 008965
This teacher resource book includes eight chapters of lessons that introduce a multicultural perspective to the elementary and middle grades mathematics curriculum. The book begins with a rationale for multicultural mathematics education, then describes the works of mathematics educators who are bringing multicultural perspectives into their classrooms.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,008965,00.shtm
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Plants solve problems of survival: intermediate unit
Date: 1993 Grade: 05 Cost: 55.00 ENC#: 019697
This curriculum unit, developed for grade 5 students as part of the ADOPT-A-WATERSHED CURRICULUM, has lessons that allow students to investigate how wild animals live and interact. The curriculum uses the local watershed as a focus for applying and integrating scientific theories.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,019697,00.shtm
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Rivers curriculum guide. Chemistry.
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020801
This teacher's book, part of the RIVERS CURRICULUM series for grades 9-12, provides information and activities focused on the chemistry of rivers. The series uses the river as the common strand weaving together six units across disciplines from science to language arts and math.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020801,00.shtm
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Rivers curriculum guide. Earth science.
Date: 1998 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020802
This teacher's book, part of the RIVERS CURRICULUM series for grades 9-12, provides information and activities focused on the earth science of rivers. The series uses the river as the common strand weaving together six units across disciplines from science to language arts and math.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020802,00.shtm
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Rivers curriculum guide. Geography.
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020803
This teacher's book, part of the RIVERS CURRICULUM series for grades 9-12, provides information and activities focused on the geography of rivers. The series uses the river as the common strand weaving together six units across disciplines from science to language arts and math.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020803,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Rivers curriculum guide. Language arts.
Date: 2001 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020804
This teacher's book, part of the RIVERS CURRICULUM series for grades 9-12, provides information and activities focused on writing and reading about rivers. The series uses the river as the common strand weaving together six units across disciplines from science to language arts and math.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020804,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Rivers curriculum guide. Biology.
Date: 1998 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020805
This teacher's book, part of the RIVERS CURRICULUM series for grades 9-12, provides information and activities focused on biology in rivers. The series uses the river as the common strand weaving together six units across disciplines from science to language arts and math.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020805,00.shtm
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Rivers curriculum guide. Mathematics.
Date: 1998 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 27.95 ENC#: 020820
This teacher's book, part of the RIVERS CURRICULUM series for grades 9-12, provides information and activities focused on mathematics and rivers. The series uses the river as the common strand weaving together six units across disciplines from science to language arts and math.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020820,00.shtm
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The theory of plate tectonics
Date: 1999 Grade(s): 08 - Post-Sec. Cost: 53.50 ENC#: 020752
This CD-ROM, offering intermediate and advanced levels of instruction for grades 7-12, and college respectively, explores the theory of plate tectonics. The CD-ROM presents the theory, explains the driving mechanism, offers supporting evidence as well as describes present day geologic phenomena attributable to plate movement, such as earthquakes.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020752,00.shtm
(For more details, see ENC Record.)
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Understanding car crashes: it's basic physics
Date: 2000 Grade(s): 09 - 12 Cost: 35.00 ENC#: 020463
This video, developed for grades 9-12 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, explores the physical laws that govern the outcome of automobile crashes. Hosted by Griff Jones, an award-winning high school physics teacher, the program discusses and demonstrates Newton's laws of motion, kinetic energy, and momentum.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020463,00.shtm
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One-minute readings: issues in science, technology, and society
Date: 1992 Grade(s): 06 - 12 Cost: ENC#: 020793
This book, for grades 6 and up, and accompanying teacher's manual are designed by the author to prompt critical thinking about controversial issues in science with real world relevance. Ultimately the objective of the author is to foster the development of students into citizens able to intelligently participate in decisions that affect society.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,020793,00.shtm
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