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Science Companion Teacher Lesson Manuals and Student Reference Books  are now available online for easy access anytime, anywhere.

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Science Companion is now available digitally, with all teacher materials  and student reference books bundled into hyperlinked PDF files. From the interactive Teacher Lesson Manual (iTLM), teachers can:

• Jump instantly to all of the other standard materials in the module, including:

• visual packs student science notebook teacher guides
• teacher masters
• student reference books
• assessment books

• Use classroom technology easily and effectively with instant access to images for projector or SMART board

• Plan lessons from anywhere without having to carry books

• Print anything from the digital files except student materials

Our iTLM’s are available as your full curriculum or as an upgrade along with your regular print materials so teachers have the best of all worlds. Download a Flyer here…

Our digital Student Reference Books can allow your students to access their materials from their computer at school or at home.

Contact your rep to ask for samples!

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Science Companion Teacher Lesson Manuals and Student Reference Books now online for easy access anytime, anywhere.

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Science Companion is now available digitally, with all teacher materials bundled into hyperlinked PDF files. From the interactive Teacher Lesson Manual (iTLM), teachers can:

• Jump instantly to all of the other standard materials in the module, including:

• visual packs student science notebook teacher guides
• teacher masters
• student reference books
• assessment books

• Use classroom technology easily and effectively with instant access to images for projector or SMART board

• Plan lessons from anywhere without having to carry books

• Print anything from the digital files except student materials

Our iTLM’s are available as your full curriculum or as an upgrade along with your regular print materials so teachers have the best of all worlds. Download a Flyer here…

Our digital Student Reference Books can allow your students to access their materials from their computer at school or at home.

Contact your rep to ask for samples!

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We had so much traffic at our booth and on our virtual online raffle that we decided to raffle off Teacher Materials from number of our Habitats and Our Solar System modules.

Here are the lucky winners:

Habitats Teacher Materials Package

Including a Teacher Lesson Manual, Assessment Book, and Teacher Masters:

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Our Solar System Teacher Lesson Manual and Masters

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Keep your eyes peeled — we’ll be sending you your materials shortly! Thanks to everyone who entered, and congratulations to all of our winners.

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First of all, it’s Ohio’s state tree, that provides a nut by the same name. Native Americans in Ohio believed it looked like the eye of a deer.

Buckeyes are also a delicious peanut butter and chocolate candy that look a lot like the nuts.
Click here for the recipe!

Buckeyes are also basketball players, swimmers, football players, tennis players, lacrosse players – student athletes at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.

Ohio State Buckeyes

Want to know more about buckeyes (the trees)? Visit this great site.

Yesterday, our Author and Director of Operations Belinda Basca visited the Chester County Intermediate Unit 24 and presented a workshop on inquiry science to elementary teachers there.

We wanted to share a bit from that workshop with you — please click the link below to download Belinda’s PowerPoint presentation.

What is Inquiry? PPT Workshop

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Our authors have been having a marvelous time getting to meet Central Bucks educators. Here are two great teachers from Central Bucks in action teaching Science Companion…

Emily Bredow shows off her I Wonder Circle  and Elaine Phipps leads her 4th Grade class in a conversation:

Thanks to all of you who attended the Train the Trainers Session!

At Science Companion, we believe that teachers are the best teachers, and we recognize that school districts often struggle to come up with funding to bring in expensive outside trainers. So, we use, whenever possible, a “Train the Trainers” model, where one of our Professional Development Experts comes and works with lead teachers in the school district so they can learn how best to support their colleagues.

Here are some photos of the group that met yesterday:

It’s a beautiful place, with lots to discover.

This very famous painting by Emmanuel Leutze of Washington and his troops crossing the Delaware is one place to start that discovery…

Curious? Check out What’s Wrong With This Painting for historical and scientific questions about that journey…

There is science everywhere!

We are very excited about this project, as it will help define how inquiry science works in the classroom, and should be helpful to educators cross country. Belinda, Colleen, and Diane, and Lance, our authors are on hand throughout the week, and will be talking to teachers about their experiences with Science Companion. Belinda will be leading a PD workshop at the Chester County Intermediate Unit about inquiry in the classroom.

Over this next week, we will be sharing what they’re learning about and what they’re teaching here on our website as well, so you can join us on our field trip. We’ll share PD workshops, updates, etc.

And like any good adventure, before all of the hard work starts, our travelers needed to have great dinner. They met Carolyn, our miracle-worker graphic designer at a PA restaurant. (We do most of our work with Carolyn via email or phone, so actually meeting in person is a real treat!)

Belinda, Colleen, Carolyn, and Diane at dinner: