Center for Family Involvement in Schools

 

Rutgers Family Science

Manuals & Buttons

 

The Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Teacher's Manual is a 477-page guide, consisting of experiments, hands-on activities, and career and cultural connections that enlarge the elementary science curriculum, plus extensive FACILITATOR'S NOTES to provide background, support, and encouragement.

The Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Teacher's Manual Contents includes:

  • Introduction
  • How to Begin: Directions and Materials
  • Encouraging Curiosity: Ice Breakers and Openers
  • Debunking the Stereotype: Who Does Science? (background, folklore, storybooks, biographies)
  • Testing, Tinkering and Talking: 13 Hands-On Activities and Experiments
  • Annotated Bibliographies (audio/print: science)

Each activity (in English or Spanish) is organized in the following manner: Parent/Child Activity Pages that may be reproduced and distributed to families. Accompanying each activity are Facilitator's Notes with appropriate Science Content, Tips, Modifications, Openers, Cultural and Career Connections, and an Annotated Bibliography.

The Complete Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Package includes:

  • one Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Teacher's Manual,
  • one set of Openers on cardstock,
  • and one set of prototype Quilts & Timelines

**** ORDER FORM ****

To order, please print out and return the form below with a check or purchase order made payable to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Mail to:

Center for Family Involvement in Schools
SERC Bldg, Room 221, Busch Campus
Rutgers University
118 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
Attn: Jennifer Lomench, Program Manager

Books:

Complete Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Package

            ____ x $80.00 + $10.00 S&H per package = $________

Additional and/or replacement Teacher's Manuals

            ____ x $60.00 + $10.00 S&H per book    = $________

Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Activities in Spanish

            ____ x $25.00 +  $5.00 S&H per book    = $________

Rutgers Family Science Buttons:

1-25        ____ x $.75 +  $4.00 S&H               = $________

26-75       ____ x $.65 +  $7.00 S&H               = $________

76 or more  ____ x $.60 + $10.00 S&H               = $________

 

                                              TOTAL: $________

Please send my order to the following address:

   Name: _________________________________________________________________

Address: _________________________________________________________________

   City: ________________________________   State: _____   Zip: __________

  Phone: ________________  Email: ________________________________________

Date attended Rutgers FAMILY SCIENCE Training: _______________

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Send mail to lomench@dimacs.rutgers.edu with questions, comments or requests for more information.
Last modified: November 11, 2002