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Science teachers and school library media specialists will find over 150 Web sites containing primary source documents in all areas of the sciences. Sources include letters, journals, speeches, and papers presented to the scientific community on major observations and discoveries. Topics such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, genetics, and physics are covered. The questions and activities in this book are designed to help students build critical thinking skills and meet the standards set forth by the National Science Teachers' Association.

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?This book can guide teachers, middle school students, and older learners to excellent resources available on the Internet that can support their interests and inquiries in the pure and applied sciences. In addition to providing authoritative starting points for examining many interesting contemporary issues in the sciences, the book can help users find original writings that reflect scientific ideas and thinking that were important in the history of science and it's intersections with society(like women in science); it will be an especially valuable resource for teachers.?-Junior High & Young Adult Books

This book can guide teachers, middle school students, and older learners to excellent resources available on the Internet that can support their interests and inquiries in the pure and applied sciences. In addition to providing authoritative starting points for examining many interesting contemporary issues in the sciences, the book can help users find original writings that reflect scientific ideas and thinking that were important in the history of science and it's intersections with society(like women in science); it will be an especially valuable resource for teachers. -Junior High & Young Adult Books A navigation tool for steering students to excellent scientific resources available on the Internet....a guided search, aimed at avoiding haphazard surfing....a valuable teaching tool. -School Library Journal Each lesson in this valuable collection of science topics includes a summary of a primary source, questions for discussion, well-designed activities to develop critical skills, and annotations for related sites....This book will be of interest to teachers and librarians. -Curriculum Connections ?A navigation tool for steering students to excellent scientific resources available on the Internet....a guided search, aimed at avoiding haphazard surfing....a valuable teaching tool.?-School Library Journal ?Each lesson in this valuable collection of science topics includes a summary of a primary source, questions for discussion, well-designed activities to develop critical skills, and annotations for related sites....This book will be of interest to teachers and librarians.?-Curriculum Connections ?This book can guide teachers, middle school students, and older learners to excellent resources available on the Internet that can support their interests and inquiries in the pure and applied sciences. In addition to providing authoritative starting points for examining many interesting contemporary issues in the sciences, the book can help users find original writings that reflect scientific ideas and thinking that were important in the history of science and it's intersections with society(like women in science); it will be an especially valuable resource for teachers.?-Junior High & Young Adult Books

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CAROLYN JOHNSON is an independent librarian, online educational researcher, and author of educational works in print and online. She has worked for studyweb.com, and the New York Botanical Garden Library.

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