In This Series Dr Dave's Teaching Manual: Digestive System Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Electricity Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Our Solar System Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: The Oceans Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Phases of Matter Dr Dave's Teaching Manual: The Cell Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Chemistry Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Special Price for Set of 8 books

Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals

Based on his years of experience as a classroom science teacher and now as a mentor and instructor to budding science teachers, Dr. Purvis has written one of the most comprehensive, creative and useful manuals for teaching science it has been my pleasure to read. His devotion to constructivist pedagogies and love of science as a way of knowing and understanding the world is evinced on every page. All science teachers, whether just beginning their careers or seasoned educators, will derive great benefit from Dr. Purvis's meticulous and innovative approach to a wide range of topics.

Marc A. Meyer, M.Phil., Ph.D Associate Head of School, Brown School, Schenectady, New York

How to teach, interest and excite elementary and middle school children in science.

“Teaching science to a classroom of children can be the most wonderful and exciting experience. But knowledge is not enough for success at this level; what a teacher really needs to know is how-to-teach, how to engage students in hands-on, inquiry-based science.” Dr David Purvis

This new series: Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals gives teachers

• visual and eye-catching activities to impart simple scientific concepts
• safety, clean-up, and how-to-save money tips
• verbal jokes that appeal to children and help them remember
• experiments, projects, and art works that enable children to discover and construct knowledge for themselves
• classroom-based advice on how to deal with potential disruptions and diversions
• tips and suggestions throughout, for further study for gifted or more advanced students

Each heavily illustrated, full-color, manual comes with a CD with stunning pictures and diagrams to project for visual learners in the classroom.

Reproducible worksheets are provided at the back of the books.

The activities are easily adaptable for homeschoolers, giving parents a practical guide and simple explanation of important scientific principles, universal laws and natural phenomena. No teacher or parent can fail to appreciate that these guides will enliven and clarify their teaching of science.

Dr David Purvis is a university academic and a classroom teacher dedicated to improving and energising science teaching for children. Units include: The Digestive System; The Oceans; Electricity; Phases of Matter; Our Solar System. The Cell and Chemistry are the latest books in the series to be published.

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manual: Digestive System

Everything you need to teach a unit on the Digestive System is here, with full-color illustrations, hints and tips and detailed activities. There are diagrams and colorful images for classroom presentations on the accompanying CD.

The aim of the manual is that children are enabled to discover and construct knowledge for themselves and that teachers have the resources and information to make the learning exciting. There are dozens of activities and topics to choose from at various levels and a wonderful 'end-of-it-all' class demonstration to simulate how the digestive system works.

The easy demonstrations use basic materials such as crackers, construction paper, oil and marshmallows. There are reproducible worksheets to offer as homework or in-class assignments; safety tips, advice on how to keep students focused, enrichment extensions, vocabulary word lists and puzzles to reinforce the learning of them.

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Electricity

If you have ever struggled to understand and teach basic electricity, this book and CD provide the fundamentals of circuits, insulators and conductors, batteries, resistance and magnetism, also how to make an electromagnet, and a battery from lemon juice. There are dozens of practical experiments, jokes to enjoy and ideas for taking things further for gifted students.

Included throughout: safety advice and budget tips, quizzes and wordgames and an awareness of likely student reactions to  the material being taught.

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Our Solar System

A visually stunning book and accompanying CD for the projection of images. This book will inspire teachers and students and enable them to better understand our solar system. The series hallmark of simple explanations with class activities using readily available materials, is beautifully presented here.

Teach the structure of the Sun, show the planets, asteroids and meteors and demonstrate revolution and rotation.

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: The Oceans

Another visually attractive and empowering teacher manual and CD from Dr Dave. He covers salinity, tides and currents, the different layers of the Oceans, food chains, fish, mammals and other life, enlivened with jokes that appeal to children and with activities that all can join in.

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Phases of Matter

This is the perfect introduction to chemistry at the elementary level: all about liquids, solids and gases and lots about slime!

Activities include making crystals and the processes of evaporation and condensation.

As in the previous manuals, there are teacher resource materials that include a CD, safety advice and budget tips, quizzes and wordgames and an awareness of real classroom situations and potential hazards.

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manual: The Cell

This unit is about plant and animal cells, their similarities and their differences. Students will learn about cell parts and functions including the cell membrane, lipids, diffusion, osmosis, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, organelles, the genetic code, and viruses.

This thorough and detailed manual introduces complex subjects through simple yet dramatic experiments.

The parts of the microscope are covered and and how to use one. Practice is given in writing laboratory reports and, as in the other books in the series, it is accompanied by a very useful CD for projection. 

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Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Chemistry

The latest in the series of Dr. Dave’s Teaching Manuals, Chemistry, is accompanied by a CD that contains vivid images and diagrams which you may want to project for your visual learners as you proceed through your instructional presentation. The CD also includes notes for your students to copy.

Topics covered in this Manual include solutions, balancing chemical equations, the pH scale, chromatography and the separation of colored substances. Because the chemistry unit is naturally rich in Physical Science topics, while students are learning about the reaction between vinegar and baking soda for example, they will also be engaging in learning about the Law of Conservation of Mass.

As Dr. Dave guides your teaching, you will be enabling your students to discover and construct knowledge for themselves by using inquiry-based real science.

There are reproducible worksheets, games and activities.

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