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| Introduction | 14 | ||||||||||
| Skills Checklists | |||||||||||
| Science Concepts & Processes Skills Checklist | 17 | ||||||||||
| Physical Science Skills Checklist | 69 | ||||||||||
| Earth & Space Science Skills Checklist | 121 | ||||||||||
| Life Science Skills Checklist | 172 | ||||||||||
| Human Body & Health Skills Checklist | 219 | ||||||||||
| Science Investigations Skills Checklist | 269 | ||||||||||
| Science Concepts & Processes Skills Exercises | 16 | ||||||||||
| Science Concepts & Processes Skills Checklist | 17 | ||||||||||
| Science Statements Under Scrutiny ... (The Nature of Science; Branches of Science) | 18 | ||||||||||
| Who Studies What? ... (Science Fields of Study) | 20 | ||||||||||
| Dazzling Discoveries & Ingenious Inventions ... (Scientific Discoveries & Inventions) | 22 | ||||||||||
| History Mysteries ... (The History of Science) | 24 | ||||||||||
| Science Gets Personal ... (The Nature of Science: Personal & Social Perspectives) | 26 | ||||||||||
| Surrounded by Science ... (The Nature of Science: Personal & Social Perspectives) | 27 | ||||||||||
| A Tight Relationship ... (Science, Technology, & Society) | 28 | ||||||||||
| No Escape from Consequences ... (Science & Technology) | 29 | ||||||||||
| Fantastic Explanations ... (Scientific Laws & Theories) | 30 | ||||||||||
| The Search is On ... (Scientific Inquiry) | 32 | ||||||||||
| Sorting Out Big Ideas ... (Science Concepts) | 34 | ||||||||||
| The Whole Thing ... (Science Concept: Systems) | 36 | ||||||||||
| Looking for Order ... (Science Concepts: Order & Organization) | 37 | ||||||||||
| What Is It About That Shape? ... (Science Concept: Form & Function) | 38 | ||||||||||
| Operation Interaction ... (Science Concept: Energy-Matter) | 40 | ||||||||||
| Connection Inspection ... (Science Concept: Cause & Effect) | 41 | ||||||||||
| To Change or Not to Change ... (Science Concepts: Change & Constancy, Equilibrium & Evolution) | 42 | ||||||||||
| Science Repeats Itself ... (Science Concept: Cycle) | 44 | ||||||||||
| Concepts Get Real ... (Science Concepts in Real Life) | 45 | ||||||||||
| Pay Attention! ... (Science Process: Observe) | 46 | ||||||||||
| Science Has Class ... (Science Process: Classify) | 48 | ||||||||||
| More Than Just a Guess ... (Science Process: Hypothesize) | 50 | ||||||||||
| You Do The Math ... (Science Processes: Measure; Use Numbers) | 52 | ||||||||||
| So What? ... (Science Processes: Infer; Predict) | 53 | ||||||||||
| Not The Real Thing ... (Science Process: Use Models) | 54 | ||||||||||
| So, Why Does the Egg Float? ... (Science Process: Interpret; Explain; Communicate) | 55 | ||||||||||
| In Pursuit of Answers ... (Science Process: Design an Experiment) | 56 | ||||||||||
| Proceed With Care ... (Science Processes: Safety) | 58 | ||||||||||
| Science Concepts & Processes Assessment and Answer Keys | 59 | ||||||||||
| Science Concepts & Processes Skills Test | 60 | ||||||||||
| Skills Test Answer Key | 64 | ||||||||||
| Answers | 65 | ||||||||||
| Physical Science Skills Exercises | 68 | ||||||||||
| Physical Science Skills Checklist | 69 | ||||||||||
| On The Inside ... (Structure of Atoms) | 70 | ||||||||||
| Which Atom Is Which? ... (Elements; Periodic Table) | 71 | ||||||||||
| A World-Famous Table ... (Elements; Periodic Table) | 72 | ||||||||||
| Who Am I? ... (Elements; Periodic Table) | 73 | ||||||||||
| Quarks, Isotopes, & Other Curiosities ... (Atoms; Elements; Periodic Table) | 74 | ||||||||||
| "Element" Ary Facts ... (Elements; Periodic Table) | 75 | ||||||||||
| Simply Symbols ... (Elements; Symbols) | 76 | ||||||||||
| A Matter of Matter ... (States Of Matter) | 77 | ||||||||||
| Molecules On The Move ... (Changes in States Of Matter) | 78 | ||||||||||
| The Truth Of The Matter ... (Properties/Characteristics Of Matter) | 79 | ||||||||||
| Great Combinations ... (Compounds) | 80 | ||||||||||
| Two Ways To Change ... (Physical & Chemical Changes) | 82 | ||||||||||
| Compounds With Character ... (Organic & Inorganic Compounds) | 83 | ||||||||||
| Chemistry Challenge ... (Chemistry Overview) | 84 | ||||||||||
| Double Chemistry Challenge ... (Chemistry Overview) | 85 | ||||||||||
| Score Sheet For Chemistry Challenges ... (Chemistry Overview) | 86 | ||||||||||
| Notions About Motions ... (Motion & Force) | 87 | ||||||||||
| Which Law? ... (Laws of Motion) | 88 | ||||||||||
| What's Your Motion IQ? ... (Motion) | 89 | ||||||||||
| Problems With Trains ... (Rate of Motion) | 90 | ||||||||||
| The Heat Is On ... (Transfer of Heat Energy) | 91 | ||||||||||
| Some Forceful Lessons ... (Force & Energy) | 92 | ||||||||||
| Simple, But Tough ... (Work & Machines) | 94 | ||||||||||
| Profile Of A Wave ... (Properties of Waves) | 96 | ||||||||||
| Great Vibrations ... (Waves) | 97 | ||||||||||
| Sounds Good To Me ... (Sound) | 98 | ||||||||||
| It Works For Bats ... (Sound; Doppler Effect) | 99 | ||||||||||
| Electrifying Facts ... (Electricity) | 100 | ||||||||||
| Not Just In Light Bulbs ... (Electricity) | 101 | ||||||||||
| Keeping Current ... (Electrical Current; Electrical Circuits) | 102 | ||||||||||
| Watts Up? ... (Electric Power) | 103 | ||||||||||
| Puzzling Properties ... (Light Properties) | 104 | ||||||||||
| Why White Is White and Black Is Black ... (Light & Color) | 105 | ||||||||||
| Light Tricks ... (Light) | 106 | ||||||||||
| Through Lenses & Mirrors ... (Lenses & Mirrors) | 107 | ||||||||||
| The Truth About Magnets ... (Magnets/Magnetism) | 108 | ||||||||||
| Physical Science Assessment and Answer Keys | 109 | ||||||||||
| Physical Science Skills Test | 110 | ||||||||||
| Skills Test Answer Key | 114 | ||||||||||
| Answers | 115 | ||||||||||
| Periodic Table of Elements | 119 | ||||||||||
| Earth & Space Science Skills Exercises | 120 | ||||||||||
| Earth & Space Science Skills Checklist | 121 | ||||||||||
| The Famous Ten ... (Solar System) | 122 | ||||||||||
| Solar System Sleuthing ... (Solar System; Planets) | 124 | ||||||||||
| Hot Spots ... (Solar System; Sun & Stars) | 125 | ||||||||||
| Close Encounters ... (Space Objects) | 126 | ||||||||||
| Cool Moves ... (Solar System Motions) | 127 | ||||||||||
| Reasons for Seasons ... (Solar System Motions) | 128 | ||||||||||
| Moon Talk ... (Moon Phases) | 129 | ||||||||||
| Casting Shadows ... (Solar & Lunar Eclipses) | 130 | ||||||||||
| What's Out There? ... (Space Exploration) | 131 | ||||||||||
| Space Ventures ... (Space Exploration) | 132 | ||||||||||
| The Air Up There ... (Earth's Atmosphere) | 134 | ||||||||||
| Air On The Move ... (Air Movements) | 135 | ||||||||||
| Weather or Not ... (Weather) | 136 | ||||||||||
| More Weather or Not ... (Weather) | 137 | ||||||||||
| Up Front ... (Weather Fronts) | 138 | ||||||||||
| It Makes A Difference ... (Climate) | 139 | ||||||||||
| Ocean Motions ... (Water Movement) | 140 | ||||||||||
| Catch A Wave ... (Water Movement; Waves) | 141 | ||||||||||
| Which Tide is Which? ... (Water Movement; Tides) | 142 | ||||||||||
| Tide Talk ... (Water Movement; Tides) | 143 | ||||||||||
| Ups & Downs at the Bottom ... (Ocean Bottom Topography) | 144 | ||||||||||
| Disappearing Act ... (Weathering & Erosion) | 145 | ||||||||||
| Water On The Move ... (Erosion; Moving Water) | 146 | ||||||||||
| Mostly Water ... (Surface Water; Erosion) | 147 | ||||||||||
| What's True About Groundwater? ... (Groundwater; Erosion) | 148 | ||||||||||
| Awesome Ice ... (Glaciers; Erosion) | 149 | ||||||||||
| Digging In ... (Earth's Layers) | 150 | ||||||||||
| The Amazing Crust ... (Surface Landforms) | 151 | ||||||||||
| Taken For "Granite" ... (Rocks) | 152 | ||||||||||
| Treasures In The Earth ... (Minerals) | 154 | ||||||||||
| Which Volcano? ... (Volcanoes) | 156 | ||||||||||
| Folds & Faults & Quakes ... (Earthquakes) | 157 | ||||||||||
| Giant Plates ... (Plate Tectonics) | 158 | ||||||||||
| Great Quakes & Eruptions ... (Earthquakes & Volcanoes) | 159 | ||||||||||
| Such Odd Stuff! ... (Earth's Features) | 160 | ||||||||||
| Earth & Space Science Assessment and Answer Keys | 161 | ||||||||||
| Table: Physical Properties of Some Common Minerals | 162 | ||||||||||
| Earth & Space Science Skills Test | 163 | ||||||||||
| Skills Test Answer Key | 167 | ||||||||||
| Answers | 168 | ||||||||||
| Life Science Skills Exercises | 171 | ||||||||||
| Life Science Skills Checklist | 172 | ||||||||||
| Osmosis is Not a Disease ... (Cell Processes) | 173 | ||||||||||
| Welcome to the Kingdom ... (Classification of Life) | 174 | ||||||||||
| A Visit from a Virus ... (Viruses & Monerans) | 175 | ||||||||||
| Strange Choice of Friends ... (Fungi & Protists) | 176 | ||||||||||
| Plant Parts, Inc. ... (Plant Structure) | 177 | ||||||||||
| Plant Antics ... (Plant Processes) | 178 | ||||||||||
| What Do Bees Know? ... (Flower Pats/Angiosperm Reproduction) | 179 | ||||||||||
| Would You Sleep on a Monocot? ... (Plant Facts & Vocabulary) | 180 | ||||||||||
| Bones or No Bones? ... (Vertebrates & Invertebrates) | 182 | ||||||||||
| A Side View ... (Animal Symmetry) | 183 | ||||||||||
| File into Phyla ... (Animal Classification) | 184 | ||||||||||
| Of Worms, Jellyfish, & Sponges ... (Simple Invertebrates) | 186 | ||||||||||
| It's Hard to Ignore a Squid ... (Mollusks & Echinoderms) | 187 | ||||||||||
| Outnumbered! ... (Arthropods) | 188 | ||||||||||
| Confusion in the Web ... (Arachnids) | 189 | ||||||||||
| Bugs by the Millions ... (Insects) | 190 | ||||||||||
| The Most Amazing Changes ... (Metamorphosis in Insects) | 191 | ||||||||||
| Blood That's Cold ... (Fish, Reptiles, & Amphibians) | 192 | ||||||||||
| Blood That's Warm ... (Birds & Mammals) | 193 | ||||||||||
| Class Assignments ... (Vertebrate Classes) | 194 | ||||||||||
| Backbone Required ... (Vertebrate Facts) | 195 | ||||||||||
| Behaving Like Animals ... (Animal Behavior) | 196 | ||||||||||
| Scales for a Crocodile? ... (Animal-Related Vocabulary) | 197 | ||||||||||
| The Habitat Habit ... (Habitats) | 198 | ||||||||||
| Something's Wrong Here ... (Habitats) | 199 | ||||||||||
| Home, Home on the Biome ... (Biomes) | 200 | ||||||||||
| Everybody's in a Chain ... (Food Chains) | 202 | ||||||||||
| What's What in the Ecosystem? ... (Ecosystems) | 203 | ||||||||||
| Relationships in the Ecosystem ... (Ecosystems) | 204 | ||||||||||
| Cycle Circles ... (Natural Cycles) | 205 | ||||||||||
| Eco-Talk ... (Ecology) | 206 | ||||||||||
| How Resourceful Are You? ... (Natural Resources) | 207 | ||||||||||
| Under the Microscope ... (Microscope Use) | 208 | ||||||||||
| Life Science Assessment and Answer Keys | 209 | ||||||||||
| Life Science Skills Test | 210 | ||||||||||
| Skills Test Answer Key | 214 | ||||||||||
| Answers | 215 | ||||||||||
| Human Body & Health Science Skills Exercises | 218 | ||||||||||
| Human Body & Health Skills Checklist | 219 | ||||||||||
| Body Mysteries ... (Body Processes, Activities, & Parts) | 220 | ||||||||||
| Hot Jobs for Body Parts ... (Body Parts) | 222 | ||||||||||
| Starting Out Simple ... (Cells) | 224 | ||||||||||
| Getting Complicated ... (Cells, Tissues, & Organs) | 225 | ||||||||||
| Sorting Out Systems ... (Systems) | 226 | ||||||||||
| Getting Organ-ized! ... (Systems & Organs) | 227 | ||||||||||
| Know Your Bones ... (Skeletal System) | 228 | ||||||||||
| A Matter of Movement ... (Skeletal System; Joints) | 230 | ||||||||||
| A Matter of Muscle ... (Muscles) | 231 | ||||||||||
| A Brainy Puzzler ... (Nervous System) | 232 | ||||||||||
| The Eyes Have It ... (Eyes & Sight) | 234 | ||||||||||
| Music to the Ears ... (Ears & Hearing) | 235 | ||||||||||
| About That Hospital Food ... (Nose & Smell; Tongue & Taste) | 236 | ||||||||||
| A Touching Experience ... (Skin & Feeling) | 237 | ||||||||||
| Blood Really Gets Around ... (Circulatory System) | 238 | ||||||||||
| A "Heart"-y Investigation ... (Heart & Circulatory System) | 239 | ||||||||||
| Easy Breathing ... (Respiratory System) | 240 | ||||||||||
| Once Upon a Swallow ... (Digestive System) | 242 | ||||||||||
| Gland Alert ... (Endocrine System) | 244 | ||||||||||
| What A Waste! ... (Excretory System) | 245 | ||||||||||
| It Takes Two ... (Reproductive Systems) | 246 | ||||||||||
| Designer Genes ... (Genetics & Heredity) | 248 | ||||||||||
| Doctor, Doctor, I Feel Sick! ... (Diseases & Disorders) | 250 | ||||||||||
| Disease-Fighters ... (Defense Against Disease) | 252 | ||||||||||
| Smart Exercising ... (Exercise) | 254 | ||||||||||
| Smart Eating ... (Nutrition) | 256 | ||||||||||
| Smart Choices ... (Fitness) | 258 | ||||||||||
| Human Body & Health Assessment and Answer Keys | 259 | ||||||||||
| Human Body & Health Skills Test | 260 | ||||||||||
| Skills Test Answer Key | 264 | ||||||||||
| Answers | 265 | ||||||||||
| Science Investigations | 268 | ||||||||||
| Science Investigations Skills Checklist | 269 | ||||||||||
| General Science Investigations | |||||||||||
| #1 | Unraveling Tricky Science Mysteries ... (General Science; Internet Research) | 270 | |||||||||
| Life Science Investigations | |||||||||||
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Ann Morse
reviewed Middle Grades Science Book Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement on August 26, 2013
Middle Grades Science Book Inventive Exercises to Sharpen Skills and Raise Achievement
Firstly, Why We Buy should have been How They Buy, because 1) the book is about insights on shopping (and not shoppers), based on extensive observations of shoppers when they're shopping and, 2) it's addressed from the retailer's point of view, about what they can do to make people buy more things.
The structure of the book goes something like this:
* Opening scene: the retailers were basically village simpletons who happened to have stores that were being visited by cattle masquerading as customers. Oh, and the world as we know it is about to end!
* And then I, in my magnificent self, and Envirosell (insert trumpet blowing), happened on the scene.
* Sarcastic commentary with two examples of how ridiculous the current practices were.
* Trumpet Envirosell's modus operandi of spending hours collecting data.
* Voila! Insert insight such as old ladies products being sold on the bottom shelf.
* Sales went up by 88000%.
* Deride two companies that didn't take my advice.
* Trumpet Envirosell's Science of Shopping.
* End credits.
Repeat.
Okay, it's not that bad. Mostly.
If you manage to plough through all the noise, there are some nuggets in there. But it's just that it takes so much persistence and teeth-grinding to actually do so. Where the book does leave a mark is when Underhill talks about facts of consumer behaviour, with empirical evidence arrived at with truckloads of detailed observation of shoppers, data analysis and mining. Such points do provide for some fascinating moments in terms of an anthropological perspective, but Underhill's writing style and personal opinions mean that it becomes a grind. At places the book is just plain sexist, generalised, and archaic with statements like "We always advise our bookstore clients to group sections by gender, acknowledging the tendency of men to cluster in sports, business, do-it-yourself and computers while women troll psychology, self-help, health, food, diet, home and garden."
This could have been a truly great book. Or at least a great read, if he had structured this along the lines of David Ogilvy's Ogilvy on Advertising, which was on a similar theme and genre. Where Ogilvy was elegant, simple and prescriptive, Underhill is verbose, tacky and in-your-face.
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