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We invite you to explore this year's list of Outstanding Science Trade Books, which builds upon our 48-year history of identifying the very best in science books for children. (ALR) LS3 About CBC and NSTA The Children's Book Council (CBC) is the nonprofit trade association for children's book publishers in North America, dedicated to supporting and informing the industry and fostering literacy. (RMK) SEP1, SEP4, SEP6, SEP7, CCC2, CCC7 About the Books and the Selection Process The books that appear in this annotated bibliography selected as Outstanding Science Trade Books were published in 2020. Selection is based generally on the following criteria: The book has substantial science content. [Extracted from the article]

We invite you to explore this year's list of Outstanding Science Trade Books, which builds upon our 47-year history of identifying the very best in science books for children. (RMK) SEP6, CCC6, CCC7 About CBC and NSTA The Children's Book Council (CBC) is the nonprofit trade association of children's book publishers in North America, dedicated to supporting the industry and promoting children's books and reading. (RMK) SEP 6, CCC 4 About the Books and the Selection Process The books that appear in this annotated bibliography selected as Outstanding Science Trade Books were published in 2019. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses two classroom activities that attempt to integrate a geological component in a classroom investigation of biological evolution. These activities are developed with an interdisciplinary approach that includes the role of the environment. The importance of these activities in offering alternatives for addressing the mechanism of natural selection and their evolution through the students' natural selection processes are noted.

The article focuses on the activity developed for middle school students to recognize the two distinct processes, the random production of variation and the nonrandom aspects of survival and reproduction, in evolution by natural selection. The activity is based on scientific evidence in which many assumptions and alterations have been made to create a model that is expected to facilitate the presentation of the evolutionary process. The activity will serve as introduction on teaching about evolution during a general biology course in the middle school. The activity is expected to help students build their own understanding of how evolution proceeds. Further, the said activity is a contribution to the idea that biology is an effective means of exploring nature and understanding life.

The article presents information related to using the Pokemon alphabet for teaching classification and phylogeny to impart science education. Many changes have taken place in the standards for science education. The National Science Education Standards now include three unifying concepts and processes. These are: systems--order and organization; evidence--models and explanation; and evolution. The life science standards also include the knowledge of the diversity of organisms and biological evolution. Biology topics that address these concepts and processes include classification and phylogeny. It has been found in the studies that it is useful to teach classification to students using pseudozoids, that is, false animals. This method is effective in teaching classification because it eliminates any of the students' bias due to prior knowledge about the organism and forces students to focus on observed similarities and differences. An activity is also described in the article that teaches classification and phylogeny using a set of pseudozoids, the Unown or Alphabet Pokemon.

The article reports on the examination of snake embryos that suggests an ancient change in the development of the upper jaw in snakes which may have paved the way for the evolution of fangs and associated venom glands. The study was conducted by a team of scientists including Ram Reshelf of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. It is revealed that fanged snakes have two distinct embryonic development centers that form the tissue of upper jaw teeth. Reshef states that the fangs that develop in the back of the jaw migrate to the front as the snake's head changes in shape as it grows.

The article offers information on the Tree of Life web project, a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. The project provides information on more than 4,000 web pages about the diversity, phylogeny and the characteristics of organisms on Earth. The pages, which contains information about a particular group of organisms, are linked one to another in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. The project's structure illustrates the genetic connections between all living things. Moreover, the project is recommended as a resource by author Deidra Wakeley.