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WOWBugs: New Life for Life Science

Meet the WOWBugs ­- pint-sized insects with 17-day life cycles, fascinating behaviors and strange morphology! Over 20 activities and experiments in a teacher-friendly book that includes the support materials you need to effectively bring new life to life science ... and across the curriculum.

bug bullet Apply concepts outlined in the National Science Education Standards
bug bullet Use teacher-friendly, classroom-tested activities to teach essential process skills
bug bullet Encourage and model the skills of scientific inquiry
bug bullet Develop self-directed learners exploring research frontiers like working scientists
bug bullet Wondering what's in the book? Here's the table of contents!
"A tremendous resource for teaching life science and inquiry. Teachers who have used Wisconsin Fast Plants now have an animal model for their students." ­ Lloyd H. Barrow, Research Director, National Science Teachers Association
"An excellent balance... What fun it will be for students... to develop and test their own hypotheses, all with an easily maintained organism!" ­ Betty Carvellas, President, National Association of Biology Teachers

WOWBugs: New Life for Life Science
By R. W. Matthews, T. R. Koballa, Jr., L. R. Flage, and E. J. Pyle.
1996. Second printing, with minor revisions, 1998.
320 pages, 8.5 x 11-in. softcover. Grades 5-12.
ISBN 1-888499-06-0.

To obtain a copy, call (706) 369-0931 or go to Riverview Press.

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