The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea. Helaine Becker, illustrated by Willow Dawson, $10.95

You don't need a day at the beach to learn all about the ocean and discover how important it is to protect them. This terrific collection of experiments, games and earth-friendly ideas will make ocean-science a breeze!

Building Structures with Young Children. Ingrid Chalufour & Karen Worth, $39.95

From playground equipment to skyscrapers, structures are everywhere. BUILDING STRUCTURES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN guides children's explorations to help deepen their understanding of the physical science present in building block structures — including concepts such as gravity, stability, and balance. Looking at science in a new way, this curriculum supports the early development of important science-inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing, and formulating ideas and theories — all aimed at helping children.

Complete Science Smart, Grades 1-2. William Young, $16.95

The essentials of elementary science are covered with fun exercises and activities that reinforce learning and stimulate children's interest in science.

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Science Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom, Grades 5-8. Joan D'Amico & Kate Gallaway, $35.95

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER is a valuable resource for teachers in inclusive classrooms who are seeking new ways to reach all their students.

Differentiating Instruction with Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: SCIENCE. Laurie Westphal, $22.95 (grades 3-5)

DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION WITH MENUS FOR THE INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM: SCIENCE offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. This book provides six different types of menus that students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned—instead of using a traditional worksheet format. Topics addressed include physical science, biological science, Earth science, and tools scientists use.

The book provides numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level elementary-aged students can use to demonstrate learning through a method of their choice. Menus with similar formats but geared towards varying ability levels allow teachers to differentiate easily. Using the creative and challenging choices found in Tic-Tac-Toe menus, List menus, 2-5-8 menus, Three Shape menus, Baseball menus, and Game Show menus, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu.

Discovering Nature with Young Children. Ingrid Chalufour & Karen Worth, $29.95

DISCOVERING NATURE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN is an inquiry-based curriculum that builds on children's natural curiosity about the living world. The curriculum guide helps you prepare yourself and your classroom for a new approach to science learning. It then assists you in planning open and focused explorations, ranging from indoor terraria to outdoor animal searches and habitat discussions. You will also learn how to better observe, assess, and document the children's learning. This curriculum is designed to help children learn:

• Essential scientific reasoning skills, such as hypothesis, inference, prediction, and estimation
• Important language and literacy skills as they communicate their findings, participate in discussions, and represent their experiences
• Crucial math skills as they count, measure, sort, categorize, and compare the many plants and animals in their surroundings

Discovering Nature All Year Round with Step-by-Step Projects for Kids. Young Einstein in Action Series, $9.50

Discovering Nature in the Garden with Step-by-Step Projects for Kids. Young Einstein in Action Series, $9.50

These DISCOVERING NATURE books offer the young scientist a lively introduction to the natural world.

Do It Now! SCIENCES: Wild Experiments & Outdoor Adventures. Sarah Hines Stephens & Bethany Mann, $7.99

82 wacky investigations and cool explorations in nature.

EXPLORING WATER leads children's explorations to help deepen their understanding of liquids and the properties of water. From experimenting at the water table to exploring water in nature, teachers learn how to prepare themselves and their classroom, guide children through open and focused science explorations; and observe, assess, and document their learning. Four detailed chapters support the early development of important science inquiry skills such as questioning, investigating, discussing, and formulating ideas and theories.

The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places. Gary Paul Nabhan & Stephen Trimble, $22.50

In alternating essays, Nabham and Trimble examine the needs of children to experience nature firsthand. This thoughtful presentation, testifying to children's need for direct contact with nature, has value for parents and those who work with children.

Help Your Kids with Science: a Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide. $21.95

HELP YOUR KIDS WITH SCIENCE is a comprehensive and stress-free approach to science.

With clear graphics, instantly understandable diagrams, and welcoming, jargon-free text — covering all the important areas of biology, chemistry and physics — HELP YOUR KIDS WITH SCIENCE is a great resource for children and adults to learn even the most complex science problems with confidence.

This innovative visual approach combines colorful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step instructions, making science easier to understand. This guide is guaranteed to build confidence, reduce stress and make every aspect simple, clear and accessible.

Hollyhocks and Honeybees: Garden Projects for Young Children. Sara Starbuck, Marla Orloff & Karen Midden, $37.50

Discover how gardening provides a full curriculum, incorporating language and literacy, science and math, social sciences, and the arts. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know, from planning and preparation to pest control. Includes sample garden designs, recipes and activities, and an extensive resource list.

I’m a Scientist: Kitchen. Lisa Burke, $14.99

In this fun book you’ll find 16 hands-on experiments that bring science to life, right in your own kitchen.  Brightly coloured photos illustrate each experiment and fold-out flaps offer eye-opening explanations and ideas for even more science fun.

Incredible Edible Science: Recipes for Developing Science and Literacy Skills. Liz Plaster & Rick Krustchinsky, $37.50

INCREDIBLE EDIBLE SCIENCE provides everything you need to teach important science and literacy skills to children in exciting ways. Each of the more than 160 science-based activities encourages children’s investigative nature while incorporating concepts Iike mathematics, language and literacy. Each experience uses simple, inexpensive materials and includes vocabulary words and questions to ask children to encourage their interactions and learning.

Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of Science to Young Learners, Grades Pr-K to 2. Janice Van Cleave, $21.99

This treasure chest of educational and fun science activities offers teachers a fantastic resource for preparing young students with a solid grounding in scientific inquiry. While kids will have fun doing the activities and learning to love science, they are also developing other skills in reading, writing, math and art.

Math and Science Investigations: Helping Young Learners Make Big Discoveries. Sally Anderson, $35.95

Young children are naturally interested in the patterns and processes occurring in the world around them. They are beginning to learn about the changes happening each day, month, and season. They are starting to ask questions about the environment and world beyond. They are anxious to explore the creatures in their own backyard.

MATH AND SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS supports young children’s natural curiosity and encourages them to explore what happens around them. Children’s books and hands-on investigations bring math and science concepts to life and help children learn the skills, concepts, and standards of mathematics, science, language, and literacy.  

Move It! Motion, Forces and You. Adrienne Mason, illustrated by Claudia Dávila, $6.95. Grades: Pre-K to 2 / Ages: 4 to 7

Touch It! Materials, Matter and You. Adrienne Mason, illustrated by Claudia Dávila, $6.95. Grades: Pre-K to 2 / Ages: 4 to 7

Developed with the cooperation of a science consultant, these books are a tool to teach the physical sciences to young children. Move It! and Touch It! follow science curricula in the largest Canadian provinces. Each book is loaded with surprising facts and hands-on activities designed to hold young readers’ interest and tap into their fascination with the everyday world.

• Move It! explores the physics of why and how things move.
• Touch It! explores materials — their colour, shape, texture, size, mass, magnetism and more.

Nature Education with Young Children: Integrating Inquiry and Practice. Daniel Meier & Stephanie Sisk-Hilton, Editors, $37.50

NATURE EDUCATION WITH YOUNG CHILDREN is a thoughtful, sophisticated teacher resource that blends theory and practice on nature education, children's inquiry-based learning, and reflective teaching. The book’s guiding conceptual framework is founded upon the integration of four key ideas for effective and transformative nature education. Implementing nature study is one critical way that educators can integrate more science learning across the ECE curriculum and do so in an active, discovery-based manner. NATURE EDUCATION WITH YOUNG CHILDREN strives for an American version of what the Reggio Emilia educators do so well: creating a seamless integration of science concepts into the daily intellectual investigations that occur in classrooms everywhere.

Nature Sparks: Connecting Children's Learning to the Natural World. Aerial Cross, $34.95

Extend your classroom outdoors and you will quickly see how nature enhances the learning process in all academic areas, for all children. NATURE SPARKS helps children explore, respect and connect with the natural world.

Nature’s Playground: Activities, Crafts and Games to Encourage Children to Get Outdoors. Fiona Danks & Jo Schofeld, $21.95

This wonderful book leads parents, teachers and children through fields, across streams, and over mountains. From making a dam with sticks and stones to cairn lanterns on the beach at night, NATURE'S PLAYGROUND is packed with activities, games, crafts and adventures that will bring children outdoors for year-round fun and bring back memories of one of the chief joys of childhood for adults – exploring the natural world.

One Well. Rochelle Strauss, illustrated by Rosemary Woods, $19.95 (Grades 3 and up)

Almost 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered with water. And all that water is connected — every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part of a single global well. A single splash can sprout a seed, quench a thirst, provide a habitat, generate energy and sustain life. How we treat the water in the well will affect every species on the planet, now and for years to come. ONE WELL shows how every one of us has the power to conserve and protect our global well — and why we need to pay attention.

PICTURE SCIENCE explores the many ways to use digital photography to teach science in early childhood settings. This beautiful book, illustrated throughout with color photographs by author/educator Carla Neumann-Hinds, includes sample lessons, activities, games, and ideas for affordable materials created using digital photography. Throughout, the material is designed to meet to early learning science standards. This is a wonderful book for home as well, giving parents ideas to stimulate children’s natural curiosity about the world around them.

Preschool Pathways to Science (PrePS®): Facilitating Scientific Ways of Thinking, Talking, Doing, and Understanding. Rochel Gelman, Kimberly Brenneman, Gay Macdonald & Moisés Román, $32.50

A fun and engaging way to introduce science to young children, this innovative teaching resource helps children ages 3–5 investigate their everyday world and develop the basics of scientific thinking—skills they'll apply across subject areas when they enter school.

Science Adventures: Nature Activities for Young Children. Elizabeth Sherwood, Robert Williams & Robert Rockwell, $29.95

With more than 125 activities, SCIENCE ADVENTURES will open up a world of exploration through nature activities in urban, suburban or rural settings for preschoolers and early kindergarten age children.

Science Lessons for the Smart Board, Grades 4-6. Sarah Carpenter, et al, $25.99

Motivating, interactive lessons that teach key science topics including:

• Human Body
• Food Chains
• Matter
• Habitats
• Earth
• ForcesEnergy
• And more!

The book includes ready-to-use activities on CD.

This collection of lessons, activities, and calendars of historic science events, vocabulary word lists, and reproducible worksheets will help you develop seasonal science-theme units for your classrooms. The more than 80 activities are designed for flexibility and can be used in any sequence, any time during the school year.

Science Play. Jill Frankel Hauser, $14.50 (ages 2-6)

Slosh, stir, stand on one foot or just quietly observe. Whatever their learning style, kids will have fun with these creative activities – all designed to build science readiness.

Sharing Nature with Children. Joseph Cornell, $11.50

As Joseph Cornell's classic book reached its 20th anniversary, Cornell drew upon a wealth of experience in nature education to significantly revise and expand his book. New nature games — favorites from the field — and Cornell's typically insightful commentary makes the second edition of this special classic even more valuable to nature lovers world-wide. The Sharing Nature movement that Cornell pioneered has now expanded to countries all over the globe.

Sharing Nature with Children, Volume Two. Joseph Cornell, $11.50

This second volume, formerly titled "Sharing the Joy of Nature," is a treasury of some of Joseph's favorite nature games for both adults and children. Joseph also introduces his remarkable technique of Flow Learning, showing how to match nature activities to the interest and energy levels of children, and to organize them in a way that works, placing them in thematic sequence to ensure a genuinely uplifting experience. Cornell's unique blend of knowledge and warmth creates a contagious atmosphere for learning.

Spotlight on Young Children and Science. Derry Koralek & Laura Colker, Editors, $18.99

Spotlight on Young Children and Technology. Amy Shillady & Leah Schoenberg Muccio, Editors, $18.99

These books offer early childhood educators fresh, effective ideas for appropriate and meaningful ways to  facilitate learning, and to engage the imagination of preschoolers.

Super Science Concoctions: 50 Mysterious Mixtures for Fabulous Fun. Jill Frankel Hauser, $15.50 (ages 6 to 12)

With over 50 safe, inexpensive science mixtures using common household ingredients. These simple experiments with spectacular results help kids explore the wonderful world of science.

Teaching Budding Scientists: Fostering Scientific inquiry with Diverse Learners in Grades 3-5. Pamela Fraser-Abder, $32.50

TEACHING BUDDING SCIENTISTS is a call to action for teachers as they guide their students on a journey to scientific literacy, while fostering their interest and participation in science. This book provides both knowledge about science content and process, curriculum, instruction and pedagogy as well as a venue for personal examination so that teachers may leave this professional development experience as a confident science teacher.

Teaching Emerging Scientists: Fostering Scientific Inquiry with Diverse Learners in Grades K-2. Pamela Fraser-Abder, $36.35

TEACHING EMERGING SCIENTISTS assists in developing, implementing and evaluating inquiry-based science teaching and improving young children's science learning. Research on science education and professional development provides the foundation for this practical book, which provides knowledge about science content and process, curriculum, instruction and pedagogy. The author shares practical strategies, activities and resources for use in the classroom and to ideas for exposing students to the informal world of science.

Teaching Science Creatively. Dan Davies, $34.95

TEACHING SCIENCE CREATIVELY explores how creative teaching can harness primary-aged children’s sense of wonder about the world around them. It offers innovative starting points to enhance your teaching and highlights curiosity, observation, exploration and enquiry as central components of children’s creative learning in science. Illustrated throughout with examples from the classroom and beyond, this book explores the core elements of creative practice supporting both teacher and children to develop their knowledge and skills.

This Is My Planet: the Kids’ Guide to Global Warming. Jan Thornhill, $12.95

THIS IS MY PLANET offers a clear and fascinating view of our world’s interconnections. By seeing how we all fit in, readers will discover how even small actions can add up to big changes.

25 Totally Terrific Science Projects, Grades 3-6. Michael Gravois, $16.99

Easy how-to’s and templates for projects that motivate students to show what they know about key science topics.

Weird Weather: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know about Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out. Kate Evans, $9.95

From one of Britain's most talented young comic artists, here is a scathingly humorous and thoroughly researched exploration of climate change as seen through the eyes of an idealistic teenager, a fat-cat businessman, and a mad scientist. It explains the science behind the issue, how global warming is progressing, and what is and is not being done. Includes detailed references, suggestions for further reading, and a list of climate change organizations and web sites adapted for a North American audience.

Where Does My Shadow Sleep? A Parent’s Guide to Exploring Science with Children’s Books. Sally Anderson, $17.95

Young children are investigators by nature, just like scientists. They are curious about the world around them and eager to explore. With the help of the stories and activities in WHERE DOES MY SHADOW SLEEP you can use favorite children’s books to help young children observe, wonder, ask questions, talk about, and explore the world of science.