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This book opens with a clear discussion of algebraic thinking and current requirements for algebraic understanding within standards-based learning environments. The book then launches with Kindergarten, where the first relevant standard is found in the operations and algebraic thinking domain, and ends with Grade 8...

Uncovering the Magical World of Signalling

This Catalyst article takes a look at the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2012 who revealed how cells communicate.

All functions of the human body require signals to be released, detected by a receptor in the right place and an appropriate response to be mounted. For example, hormones can be...

This book, a collection of the finest photographs ever taken underwater in deep Antarctica, illuminates a world brimming with strange and beautiful life forms. For the first time anywhere, Under Antarctic Ice brings...

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Under Pressure

This simulation can be used to explore pressure under and above water and see how pressure changes as you change fluids, gravity, container shapes, and volume.

Sample learning objectives include:

*Describe how pressure changes in air and water as a function of depth.

*Describe what variables...

This series uses large, arresting photograph s to show machines at work in different places. Simple illustrations pick out special features and the text describes th e importance of these machines in everyday life...

The microworld is everything that is too small to be seen by the human eye, including atoms and genes, bedbugs, tastebuds and silicon chips. "Microcosmos" visually explores the human body, animal life, plant life, micro-organisms, the cell, the physical world and the world of everyday life.

Under the Microscope: the State of Resourcing of Practical Science in Primary Schools

This resource, commissioned by SCORE (Science Community Representing Education) and published in April 2013, reports on the findings of research into the nature of resourcing and funding of practical science within primary schools in England. The aim was to identify and understand types of issues that might be...

Under the Microscope: the State of Resourcing of Practical Science in Secondary Schools

This resource, commissioned by SCORE (Science Community Representing Education) and published in April 2013, reports on the findings of research into the nature of resourcing and funding of practical science within schools and sixth form colleges. The aim was to identify and understand types of issues that might be...