Teacher's+Editions

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Life Science and Biology
Title: Biology Publisher: Prentice Hall Copyright 2006 This textbook starts off with a guide on what material should be covered at what time through out the year. It covers different levels of learners, these levels range from below grade level, students at grade level and students above grade level. The textbook also gives the National Science Education Standards within the first couple of pages. The textbook includes the benchmarks for literacy. I find these references in the textbook helpful and easily located. After the content page it has a content list of activities that can be found in the textbook. These activities are to engage the students. Before every chapter, a planner breaks down the goals of each section, time and standards. It gives built in assessments and resources. Each inquiry activity is broken down into areas of focus like the objective, time, and strategies for the activity, outcomes and hints. The textbook is very helpful; it gives strategies to help portray the material in the textbook. These hints could be visual, applying concepts and more. This book also gives strategies to help teach ESL students. I find the teachers’ addition of this textbook is very thorough. I have never seen a teacher's addition of a textbook, but I like how it gives hints on how to get the information across. It is less of just answers. I feel I would use this textbook in my classroom. (reviewed by Ryan Kelleher).

Title: Biology: Exploring Life, Publisher and date: Pearson Prentice Hall 2004 The teacher's edition of Exploring Life was very easy to use and had many resources included inside it. The national standards for biology were incorporated into a large table that matched the standard with specific chapters and even pages. This could be very useful in making sure you teach all the standards for the year. After that there was a large list of materials and quantities for each lab in the book. Also another useful extra to the teachers edition was a pacing schedule for a blocked schedule class. There were recommended goals for the teacher to reach by certain weeks of the school year. This could be helpful if the teacher feels cramped for time and unsure how to manage their schedule. Along the sides of the pages were hands on activities with the amount of time they would take. These activities supplemented the chapters and concepts the students needed to learn. At the end of the book was a collection of methods on how to organize information such as venn diagrams, flow charts, and concept maps. A teacher could use one of these methods in teaching specific lessons. Overall this book was really easy to understand and had many helpful supplemental activities and recommendations included. (Reviewed by Josh Egner).

Title: Biology: Exploring Life, Publisher: Pearson Education Year: 2004 (Reviewed by Leanne Rios) This textbook edition is a good textbook because at the beginning of each section it has some media activities that the students would be able to do and offers suggestions as to the set up. For instance if there is one computer in the room, it explains how I could still use the activity by projecting it on a screen and have the class work together in discussion about the activity. The book also suggests that if there are multiple computers, to use cooperative learning to use the activity and break the students up into groups of three or four. Then for each section there are objectives that would be covered in the chapters along with about how long the sections should take: for example 2 periods or 1 block. The book also has a lab manual it follows for both teacher and student addition and the different online activities.

Title: //Biology: The Study of Life//, Publisher and date: Prentice Hall 1995 Overall, I felt that this teachers edition textbook has a large variety of resources for teachers. The beginning of the book includes ideas for a variety of different things included in the classroom. It explained how you can develop life skills in the classroom, safety instructions while doing labs, and a suggested teaching schedule chapter by chapter. The beginning of each chapter has a breakdown of each section and how long is appropriate to spend on each section. It also gives different resources and potential lab options to be used to accompany each lesson. It also discusses potential field trip or guest speaker options that could help make the unit more effective. The chapters include annotations that explain common errors/misconceptions students may have about the topics discussed on that page, it answers the section review questions, and provides additional background information that may be interesting to the students. Overall, I feel all of these resources and ideas are great help for the teacher. (reviewed by Heather Malin)

Title: //Biology,// Publisher and date: Prentice Hall 2006, Authors: Miller and Levine (reviewed by Bob Verdon)

Each chapter has activities and highlights for teachers to generate or supplement their own lesson plans. Teaching methods are hands-on meaning that it is striving for students to derive ther own meaning-constructivist learning. Each chapter is easy to follow and follows the same format; important points and concepts and constructivist ways to get the points across to the students. Because of the subject matter, Biology, labs are also discussed and described how to conduct.

Life Science Merrill Teacher's Addition (reviewed by Rachael Shearouse)

I reviewed the teacher edition of Life Science (1995). It is the book that I am currently using as I student teach at Pleasant Valley. I find that the text itself has little information. I don't think the students get much out of it and I don't use the content of the book at all to develop my lessons. I mostly use it as a guideline for topics I should cover. The one good thing about the teacher edition are the worksheets that are provided for each section of the chapters. I have found some of them to have great questions and activities for the students to use. I have used some myself. Other then that the teacher edition does not have many other resources that come with it. I do not find the tests or reviews to be that helpful. Overall, if I could pick my own text this would probably not be it.

Biology: The Dynamics of Life by Glencoe Science (reviewed by Tamara McCombs)

I reviewed the teacher edition (2004) and liked it overall. It makes things for the teacher VERY easy with things like transparency books and quick demos with step by step instructions on the materials needed and how to set it up. I like the "daily interventions" it contained for struggling students, that allow the teacher to ensure that everyone is on the same page. They also have activities for all the topics that are characterized by levels (Levels 1-3, ELL, and Cooperative Learning). I thought this was a great idea especially for teachers who teach the same subject in one day but for different levels of students (ie. Remedial, College Prep, Honors). It makes it very easy for the teacher to tailor the lesson and activity to the needs and abilities of the student. The course planning/ pacing guide at the beginning was also very helpful particularly for those who aren't accustomed to block scheduling or vice versa. Overall, I think the book is laid out well and would be a useful tool.

Biology, by Pearson-Prentice Hall (reviewed by Emily Detter)
I reviewed the teacher edition book of Biology, by Pearson-Prentice Hall, copyright 2006. I thought that this book offered a lot for the teacher. It suggested objectives for each chapter, strategies to have the students understand the readings better, solutions for working with special needs, less proficient learners, and for advanced learners. This book also addressed usual misconceptions that students have from each chapter to give the teacher a heads up on what problems to expect. This book gave the teacher hints on how to use visuals and models to supplement the information in the book. I thought that this book offered a lot of good ideas. I think it would especially be good for a first year teacher who might not have as many ideas as an experienced teacher would.

Biology-Prentice Hall; Miller, Levine (2007) (Reviewd by Justin Tice)

I chose to do my teacher text review on the 2007 version of Prentice-hall's Biology textbook because I have had personal experience with the use of this text in the past. I found the book to be extremely useful as an aide to teaching. Not only was the layout of the chapters in what i considered to be a good sequence, but the teacher resources that the authors placed within the margins of the text were easy to follow and greatly assisted in preparing lessons during my seminar 1 experience. the thing i found most beneficial was that the supplemental material in the textbook included state standards covered by a particular lesson and gave phenomenal examples of activities and leading questions to introduce new topics. Overall (between the teacher and student version of this text) I would certainly be grateful to have this text as my classroom resource.

Biology (Prentice Hall); Miller and Levine (2006) (Reviewd by Bob Verdon) Each chapter has activities and highlights for teachers to generate or supplement their own lesson plans. Teaching methods are hands-on meaning that it is striving for students to derive ther own meaning-constructivist learning. Each chapter is easy to follow and follows the same format; important points and concepts and constructivist ways to get the points across to the students. Because of the subject matter, Biology, labs are also discussed and described how to do. Biology by Glencoe/McGraw Hill (reviewed by Kristin D'Arienzo)

I reviewed the teacher edition of Biology by Glencoe/McGraw Hill, the 2007 version and I found this textbook to be very helpful towards teachers. There are many useful tools in the margins such as ideas for creative ways to teach lessons and some simple questions you can ask your students to check for their understanding throughout the lesson. I also discovered that you can access a website that corresponds to the correct edition of the book and provides many more resources for both students and teachers. This website includes textbook resources such as videos, flashcards, interactive timelines for the students. And for the teachers the website provides additional teaching support, teacher forum, vocabulary puzzle maker and rubrics. This book is very useful as a teacher because it provides extra resources that students can use to further their learning, as well as helpful tools to make teaching a little easier and less time consuming.

Biology: The Dynamics of Life by Glenco Science (reviewed by Bob Podlinski)

This book has all the traditional pages to assist the teacher in teaching biology. There are pacing guidelines, national science standards, lab safety and prep guidelines, etc. There are projects for each lesson that the students can complete based on their style of learning, revealing naive conceptions, inclusion strategies and vocabulary tips within the chapter. I really like the inclusion strategies, and also a section that directs the material to a career in biology. There are also internet resources that can be very beneficial. I like the teachers edition because it seems as though everything you need as a teacher is provided for you. The standards are listed as well, however I would change the layout because it seems like they tried to cram everything into the small space they were allotted. If in a new edition the layout was changed, my only complaint would be to include more Internet material.

Biology by McDougal Littell 2008 (reviewed by Shannon Jones)

This book is both good and bad. It is good because it allows the teacher to create tests with the test generator but is poor in the quality. The questions are poor and not always accurately answered in the key. The book tries to make the teacher’s life easier, but in fact creates more work. The side notes are helpful and provide great teaching ideas. The book is quite detailed though and some chapters dive right into the meat of the material without providing a background. This would be fine for an AP class but for an applied class, the students need more of a foundation before diving into the main material. The ideas and projects that are provided with the lessons seem to be "lacking" excitement and do not seem like they would entertain the students (as I was reading, I was thinking how I wouldn't even want to do some of the projects). This book seems to be helpful, but I can not see myself using it in my own classroom.

Environmental Science by Holt (2008 reviewed by Jamie Huber)

The teacher edition of Holt Environmental Science is a very complete resource for teaching. The teacher edition of the text is a wrap around style book with activities, key questions and different teaching tactics inserted throughout the chapters. There are many lab activities throughout the book and different strategies for connecting the material to real life examples. The Pennsylvania version is aligned to the state standards, with national standards listed as well. Also included in the whole package is a large amount of resources for the teacher. CD's with PowerPoint presentations for every section of the book, worksheets, and assessments designed for various ability level students. The teacher also has web access to all the resources via Holt's website. This is a very nice looking book and has great real life connections to the material throughout the text.

Biology: Campbell, Williamson, Heyden, Prentice Hall, 2004 (reviewed by Chris Torres)

Overall I felt that the TE edition of Biology was overall, a good resource for the teacher. One thing i really liked about it was that it had a list of the standards in it. I also really liked the course planning guide. The only issue with the guide is that I feel some beggining teachers could fall into the trap of just teaching out of the textbook. I also enjoyed the activites in the margians of the book. Sometimes it can be difficult to think of an activity thats is fun, short, and drives a concept home for the kids, but i found some of the activites in the book to be things I would use in my classroom. The only thing I didn't like about the TE edition is that it almost made teaching the content seem so easy. I found that everything was very spelled out, but it is also the choice of the teacher as to how closely they plan on following the flow of their textbook over the choices they want to make in their classroom. So overall, ona scale of 1-10 i would give this TE edition an 8.

Biology: by Prentice Hall (reviewed by Joe Pereira) I haven't read many teachers editions, but I thought this was a pretty good one. Before each chapter they have the national standards that are being reached in the chapter. They also tell you which questions are higher level thinking question, in the review sections. There also is a and "Assess Prior Knowledge" section before each chapter begins, and I thought that was a really important part. They pretty much lay out step by step instructions that a teacher could use if they didn't have ideas about how to teach the subject matter. They also have some online interactive opportunities for the students and the teachers to get further clarification or discussion on certain topics. I think that this is a good book for a basic high school biology class. The one thing that I thought it should of had, would be a section that would have motivating activities that the teachers could use in class. It may be in there, but I didn't see it.

Biology: Principles and Explorations, //Annotated Teacher's Edition.// Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 2001 (reviewed by Amber Anderson)

The teachers edition that I reviewed is titled Biology: Principles and Explorations; the teachers' text has a wrap around set up. Overall, this text seems to be very useful. There are internet resources provided for teachers that carry information for laboratory and other various materials in addition to providing guidlines for running a safe and efficient laboratory program. The text provides ways to sort information according to the amount of time needed to teach such which, for me, will deem very beneficial because I tend to ramble on about information that strikes my interest. There are test prep and assessment options that can be utilized within the classroom for individual learners' needs. This can be very helpful in a classroom because the ways in which people process information is vast. The organization of the text allows me to easily find any information or resources that I may need without having to decipher where or how to find it within the books' many pages.

Biology: Exploring Life, //Teacher's edition//. Campbell, Williamson and Heyden. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2004. (Reviewed by Brooke Lininger)

The teacher's edition of this text, which also happens to be a beautiful student text book, is presented in a wrap around format. The text book is very visually pleasing with well spaced font, informative and easy to understand illustrations and beautiful detailed photography of human tissues and body structures (I reviewed the human anatomy and physiology chapters primarily). In addition to it's asthetic appeal, the text is well written and easy to understand- it does not over simplify topics but writes in plain language that is easy to understand. The teacher's edition includes several suggestion blocks for each subunit which includes: Engage (activating prior knowledge)- suggestions on how to introduce the unit and grab students' attention; Explore/Explain- lists a number of different hands on activities and demonstrations that provide opportunity to apply concepts in the unit, including suggestions for diverse learners; Assess- offers suggestions for differing assessment techniques. In addition to these boxes, which are presented in the wraparound spaces, there are several pages at the beginning of each chapter with suggestions for activities specific to the number of computers avaibale in the classroom, objectives for each section listed in an indexed fashion (including timesaver suggestions of what to skip if time is limited), and an activities planner that lists suggested activities and required materials for the unit. I feel that this text is excellent in its quality in both the student and teacher's editions. The text itself is very user friendly, and the teacher's edition offers practical suggestions in an organized and accessible fashion without being overly restricting to the teacher's own planning and independent ideas. I feel that I would enjoy using this book in my classroom.

Physical Science, Chemistry and Physics
Title: Chemistry, Connections to Our Changing World Publisher:Prentice Hall Date: 2002 Reviewed by: Kassi Brady The teacher's edition of this text book is a great resource for any teacher starting out or even a veteran teacher. The textbook's beginning page start out with extras resources that are provide by the publisher and the include: Hands on and minds activities, real world problem-solving emphasis, interactive student tutorials, chemedia simulation software, chemedia videos, and chemistry field trip videos. If you turned a few more page after the introduction the textbook provided a a teachers guide to the content standards found in the National Science Education Standards book.The guided standards dealt with the subject topics of: structure of the atom, structure and properties of matter, chemical reactions, motions and forces, conservation of energy and the increase in disorder, and interactions of matter and energy. Before it got into the teacher's features of the textbook it began by a brief descriptions of the features the student text book would have that was important because a teacher should be similar with the students version of the textbook. Than the book went into the teachers features which had great deal of information that would be help for both the teacher and the student. It start off with a thematic overview of each unit so it could be successfully portrayed to each student. The thematic overview was broken down into units and gave the primary themes for each unit which had more than one theme. The primary themes where energy, stability, patterns of change, systems interactions, unity and diversity, scale and structure, form and function, models and organization, and evolution and adaptation.After that section came the laboratory safety information which included laboratory safety, laboratory safety equipment, chemical storage, table of in compatible chemicals and chemical disposal. I found this helpful because not everyone is perfect and going to remember everything all the time it was a great reference. Than there was a Laboratory skills assessment record chart and comprehensive list of laboratory materials and equipment which would also make a great reference for any teacher. Another great thing before you got to the actually chapters and units in the book was a list of laboratory material and equipment suppliers I felt this feature was a good way a researching suppliers because the provide some for you but you could always find out who was better and you would always know you where getting qualified laboratory equipment. The actual features provide by the textbook didn't come until after the extra resources and included laboratory investigations, connection of (science, technology, and society), problem-solving: Chemistry at work, chemactivities, chemexplorations, chemistry in action (you and your world, consumer tips), and from school to work. Each of theses feature would allow a teacher to make the connection with the students everyday life and their school work. In each unit there was a chapter planning guide and chapter preview. The chapter planning guide was broken into four sections: lab activities, investigation, and demonstrations, other activities, technology, and meeting the standards. Each section gave ideas to the teacher about what he or she could use in the classroom to gather the students attention. The chapter preview was broken into thematic focus, learning objectives and science terms. Once you got in the chapter the side where filled with tips for the tip like: engage, explore, teach, assess, math tips, internet resources, teaching resources, ingratiating, retach, and correcting misconceptions. Overall this teacher edition textbook would be one of my choices because of all the resources it provides to the teacher.

Chemistry: Modern Chemistry by Holt McDougal, 2012 (reviewed by Brittany Baccaro)

Overall, I felt this was a good textbook to use in a 11th grade chemistry classroom. In the front of the book was a list of all the chapters and the topics covered in these chapters. It also suggested how many class periods should be spent on each topic for a basic, general, and advanced chemistry class. It briefly goes over lab safety for a teacher involving equipment, environment, purchasing, etc. I liked the style of the book because it had the exact pages the students were looking at and then around the outside had helpful information for the teacher. They offer teaching tips, checks for understanding, alternate approaches, and even labs pertaining to each chapter. All of these extras can help a teacher plan their lessons and how they will go about teaching them. What I really liked about this textbook was they had warnings about misconceptions. For example when teaching about electrons that orbit, they point out that the electrons don't actually orbit in the way planets orbit, instead they explain that electrons are actually distributed in electron clouds. These are helpful for a teacher when explaining to their students because a teacher may not catch this misconceptions that occur with students. Another great tool this book gives is how to perform short demonstrations that can help the students learn visually. I would say this text book is a great tool to aide in teaching chemistry students. I would definitely consider using in my classroom.

Chemistry, Connections to Our Changing World by Prentice Hall, 2002 (reviewed by Trina Carito)

This review gave me a great deal of relief! I realised that many of our teachers must have gotten great ideas from their teacher's editions. This teacher's edition appears to be a great help to any one using it. There is a "thematic overview" of 10 units which helps the teacher understand how each concept ties in with the next. This would be helpful when planning lessons so that one flows well into the next. There are several safety features which could be utilized into a safety lab or copied to print off as papers to handout with a contract. There is even a student log where the teacher can check off safety efficiency of each student to be sure each is monitered. In the margins of each chapter there are tips on how to engage students, example questions to ask the class, and also good activities to use during class. There are demo ideas to show the students, and assessment questions to check if students follow what is being said. There are "connections" where the book gives real-life examples of how what students are learning relates to real life situations. This gives good relevance to the lessons. Various reference materials which appear to be available as a package deal along with the teacher edition, are eluded to and appear to be of great assistance while teaching along with the book. Chapter Planning guides are available for each chapter which would help a great deal when writing lesson plans.

Chemistry - Pearson/Prentice Hall (Reviewed by Thomas Kotch) The teacher's edition of Chemistry by Wibraham, et al. (2008) contains a large number of resources for instructors. A comprehensive planning guide is presented at the start of each chapter which provides an outline of chapter topics, a pacing guide, national standards, activities, resources, and assessments suggestions. Each activity is presented with a list of materials and a protocol for the instructor. All chapter objectives are clearly presented and help to make lesson planning easier. Again, these tools are helpful for a new teacher or for someone who has just adopted the textbook. The format seems similar to other newer Pearson textbooks in Algebra or Biology and this similarity in the format and teacher tools may be useful in providing continuity across the curriculum. Material provided upon adoption of this text include //Presentation Express// which contains power point style lessons, an exam generator, and //Lesson View,// a lesson plan generator which correlates your lessons to state standards.

Chemistry- Modern Chemistry by Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1982 (Reviewed by Whitney Twining) I chose to review an older version of a teachers edition textbook. This textbook was published in 1982 and so it has very old pictures and looks boring. When i actually got reading through the content I realized that it had some great stuff. The teachers part of the book was approx. the first 50 pages of the book which I was not sure if I liked or not. It was difficult to see what the students would be reading and then what you were teaching. You had to constantly flip back and forth. The content in these pages for teachers was great. It listed the objectives of the chapter, had plenty of demonstrations that fit with the section--which I enjoyed because I think students learn better when they see what is actually going on, had ideas on how to relate the material to the students and how to get their attention. It also had the answers to all homework and in chapter questions. It was not a book I would use for my class, obviously because it is quite old, but it does have some valuable ideas that could be used.

Chemistry- Modern Chemistry by Holt (2000) Sara Shatt I chose to review a newer version of the textbook that Whitney reviewed, Holt published in 2000. I liked this teacher edition because it had the wrap around. I think it's helpful to have something on every page to look at. Within the wrap around it had answers to all the practice problems and suggested student activities. I really liked some of the student activities because they were appropriate for beginner students and not too challenging for students to carry out. All the suggested activities were safe for students to perform and easy for teachers to supervise. I liked the images and examples provided within the textbook. I didn't see the older version, but Holt 2000 was overall a decent teacher edition of a chemistry book.

Earth and Space Science
I reviewed the Teacher’s edition of Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe by Glencoe-McGraw Hill. This edition was printed in 2002. The authors of this text include; Hess, S.,F., Kunze, G., Leslie,A.,S., Letro, S.,Millage, C., Sharp, L., Snow, T. This textbook seemed like it would be really useful to me as a future teacher. There are co-operative learning activities in the text, class breakdowns for both block scheduling and single class periods, activities for English language learners and different levels of activities. Each chapter starts with what you will learn and why it is important. I like this feature because students always ask why they need to learn this or why is this important. When I was in high school I know that I always wondered why I needed to learn a specific topic and what its connection to the real world was. This text also has environmental connections throughout the chapters to show relevancy to modern issues, applications of chapter lessons and connection between classroom information and the real world. Environmental issues are important and I think students would find this connection even more exciting because it would provide real world examples. Specifically the teacher’s edition has chapter organizers, activity materials, multiple learning styles, demos, cultural diversity, assessment planner, course planning guide and a section that identifies common misconceptions. Overall I really liked this text. I would like to use it as a teacher and would recommend it to others.
 * Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe by Glencoe-McGraw Hill** (reviewed by Bryan Freeman)

Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe by Glencoe - McGraw Hill (reviewed by Jim Bratcher)
I reviewed the Teacher's Wrap Around Edition of Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe by Glencoe - McGraw Hill, copyright 2002. Like most other teacher's editions, this textbook was filled with useful information on teaching strategies, linkage to National Science Education Standards, common misconceptions (naive conceptions), and illustrative examples that any teacher could use to better explain a topic. What set's this book apart is the partnering Glencoe has done with the National Geographic Society (NGS). Throughout the book there are links to NGS web pages, online video clips, and the outstanding photography that they have become famous for. Most of the explanatory graphics within the text are also produced by the NGS, which makes them both more visually attractive and easy to understand than those typically found in a high school textbook. I highly recommend this book to any teacher but it would probably take a couple of years of using it to fully exploit all that it has to offer.

Earth Science by Prentice Hall (reviewed by Steve Beautz)

I reviewed this earth science teachers edition text book from 2005. When looking and reading through the text I thought that it had a lot of good information and teaching tips. I liked how at the end of each chapter it had suggested activities to do with the students to reinforce what they have learned. Also, it had an overview and schedule summary in the margins which i thought was good and useful. At the end of chapters it has demonstrations that can be done (material list), and preparing labs with step by step instructions. Had lots of ideas in margins for teaching the lessons and even outside of school ideas such as field trips and such. Seemed to have good review questions at the end of the chapters, from multiple choice, matching and short answer. Overall, I thought it was a good teachers edition with many good ideas and teaching strategy. I havent seen many teacher edition text books, so its hard to compare it to others but just from looking through it, it seemed to be a good text and would recommend it.

Earth Science: Teachers Edition by Prentice Hall Copy Right 2007 by Pearson Education, Pnc. (Reviewed by Randy Hall)

At first glance this oversized teacher’s edition can seem a bit overwhelming. After taking the time to read through it and understand the way it is set up, it becomes clear that it is very helpful. Like other teacher editions, there are additional teacher references, suggestions and guidance provided in text wrapped around the student’s context. The additional teacher’s notes provided things like the objectives, instruction ideas, project suggestions, how to assess, differentiated instruction ideas, preteaching thoughts, and many other useful suggestions. The teacher addition will basically walk you through a lesson from introduction to test.

Additionally, at the beginning is a pacing chart. It breaks down each section and gives a suggested time allocation by periods or blocks. This would be very useful for first year teachers who may not have a handle on just how long a lesson will take.

Earth Science: Teachers Edition by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston Copy Right 2001 (Reviewed by Sal-Lee Patti)

I reviewed Holt, Rinehart, and Winstons 2001 Earth Science textbook teachers addition. This textbook is a great textbook for teachers for reference, lesson planning, and labs. They provide worksheets and lists of materials needed for lab ideas provided for each chapter. In the beginning of the book, they have a chapter organizer to give you ideas for teaching each chapter in terms of, time allotment, objectives, labs, worksheets and transparency used, and review and assessment. I thought that would be really helpful for teachers in their first year teaching to get ideas. Each chapter of the student edition is shown, and they break up they break up the chapter for teachers in four sections; Focus, Teach, Extend, and Close. The textbook also has misconception alerts for chapters that has content that students may have misconception about. Another positive point of this book is they give ideas for differentiation for students with special needs.

This book also has information on labs too, so teachers would not have to buy a separate lab textbook. There are lab ideas for each chapter. They provide you with safety cautions for the labs and teacher awareness notes to review before performing the lab.

Science Interactions: Course 4 Publisher: Glencoe McGraw Hill Year: June 1999 (reviewed by Taylor Hartey)
I reviewed the Science Interactions Teachers Wrap Around Edition. I thought that this teacher's edition would be very useful for teacher's writing up lesson plans. Each section had the related standards listed for every chapter. I thought this would also be a good text for first or second year teachers for this reason. This edition also listed ways to help students in understanding (websites, questions, and lesson ideas.) However, in regards to the textbook itself, it seemed to jump from different subject to subject in no specific order. I also thought that the text was not as aesthetically pleasing as other textbooks. From just looking at the teacher's wrap around section I thought it was useful for the teacher and would most likely use it if I was to use the book. However I didn't like the layout of the book itself, I thought it had good content but in an unorganized manner, and it was hard to look past that detail.