IPS Products

Student Text Book, 8th Edition (2005)

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	Teacher’s Guide and Resource Book, 8th Edition (2005)	#SCI-810-1440 price and ordering
The Teacher's Guide and Resource Book provides the instructor with the necessary background information to enable students to get the most out of the IPS course. The book contains detailed suggestions for using the reading sections, experiments, and problems in a variety of settings. It also includes a general discussion of the content and pedagogy of the program. Provides suggestions for each experiment, including schedules, equipment, technical hints, safety precautions, and sample data. Recommends solutions, including methodology and reasoning, to all questions. Makes general planning and teaching suggestions. For more information or to order please call toll free: 888-501-0957 Fax: 303-989-1473 or E-Mail: sales@sci-ips.com

	Assessment Package, 8th Edition (2005)	#SCI-820-9287 price and ordering
The IPS Assessment Package of both chapter and laboratory tests is designed specifically to assess the progress of IPS Students. The Assessment Package includes multiple-choice and essay questions that can be used for a broad spectrum of students. The questions are designed to provide the most extensive range of scores. They were not designed to be graded on a fixed-point basis. For more information or to order please call toll free: 888-501-0957 Fax: 303-989-1473 or E-Mail: sales@sci-ips.com.

Student Text Book, 7th Edition (1999)

# SCI-023-9821 price and ordering

	Teachers Guide and Resource Book, 7th Edition (1999)	# SCI-201-2559 price and ordering

Assessment Package, 7th Edition (2001)

# SCI-020-5092 price and ordering

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Diagnostic Analysis Software(2004)	Test Files for IPS and FM&E

Diagnostic Analysis software analyzes multiple-choice questions for Introductory Physical Science (IPS) and Force, Motion, and Energy (FM&E) Chapter Tests. This enables teachers to gain valuable insight into the root of their students' mistakes. In addition, Diagnostic Analysis software can be applied to a teacher’s own multiple-choice questions.

Schools that currently use either the IPS or the FM&E Assessment Package will receive a set of Test Analysis Files free of charge with the purchase of Diagnostic Analysis.

• Diagnostic Analysis by Uri Haber-Schaim and Robert Stair is available for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems (pre-OS X and OS X) and comes with user-friendly documentation and guidelines for writing sound multiple choice questions.

• Diagnostic Analysis analyzes student test responses and then produces a variety of reports that will allow the teacher to help students overcome their difficulties by diagnosing the roots of their errors.

• Diagnostic Analysis provides a Class Results report that lists the results for the entire class. This report lists each student, the credit received by that student on each question, the student's total score, and the class average.

• The Class Report lists responses by question rather than by student. The number of students selecting each response is noted, as well as the number of times the question was skipped and the answer was left blank. An asterisk indicates the correct answer. This format allows the teacher to quickly distinguish between guessing (responses distributed across the possible choices) and widely held misunderstandings (a large number of responses in one or two incorrect choices).

• A Summary Report prints a listing of the plausible reasons for incorrect answer choices made by 10% or more of the class.

• Diagnostic Analysis also produces an Individual Student Report that analyzes the performance of individual students. This report contains all the student’s answers, along with the relevant diagnostic comments. This report can be very helpful in discussions with individual students and their parents.

The knowledge of how many students selected certain diagnostic responses aids both short- and long-term instructional planning. It allows the teacher to immediately decide how to discuss the test most effectively, while also providing guidance on future instruction.

In a typical school, time is at a premium. The time required to perform a manual analysis leading to the production of the reports cited above is greater than most teachers can devote to this task. Diagnostic Analysis allows you to print test answer forms on regular paper, and it provides you with a fast analysis of the test results WITHOUT the expense of specialized forms and expensive equipment.

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KaleidaGraph Software

	Graphing and Data Analysis price and ordering
	Companion Files for IPS and FM&E price and ordering

Science Curriculum Inc. is happy to announce that Synergy Software has incorporated our method of constructing histograms in both IPS and FM&E into the latest version of KaleidaGraph. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to offer a special limited-edition student version of the software. Synergy has authorized SCI to offer the full-featured KaleidaGraph v3.6 commercial package at a special school price.

For users of IPS or FM&E, SCI will provide templates for the experiments on a companion CD with each of the options below:

KaleidaGraph Classroom -
Full featured version of KaleidaGraph with class license for use on up to 35 classroom machines under the control of a single IPS/FME teacher. Macintosh or Windows versions available on CD - Please specify version when ordering.

Special SCI Price: $99, a saving of 45% off the regular retail price!
SCI Item Number SCI-032-1111 - Please specify version when ordering

KaleidaGraph Building -
Full-featured version of KaleidaGraph with an unlimited-use license on any school-owned computer in the building. Includes network and single-user version on Macintosh or Windows CD. Teacher will need to choose either Macintosh or Windows version. Great for schools implementing the use of technology curriculum-wide. This opens KaleidaGraph for use by other faculty members in your school (biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, et al.), as well as for administrative use such as data analysis.
For a school with at least three teachers using IPS and/or FM&E, it will be economical to move up to KaleidaGraph Building, opening the use of KaleidaGraph building-wide and over networks.

Special SCI Price: $300, a saving of 80% off the old SCI Building License price!
SCI Item Number SCI-032-9999 - Please specify version when ordering

KaleidaGraph Student -
This is a new product, perfect for teachers teaching with KaleidaGraph. Teachers can now assign work on special projects to students to do on their home computers.

Owners of the KaleidaGraph Classroom and/or KaleidaGraph Building are eligible to buy additional CD-ROMs for students to use on their own machines (at home or laptop at school). These may be purchased in quantities of 5 and can be resold to students individually (suggested price, $20 each.) This is a full working copy of KaleidaGraph, identical to KaleidaGraph Classroom edition. This Student edition will run for 6 years. If an upgrade is purchased before the end of the 6 years, KaleidaGraph will continue running for an unlimited number of years.

Special SCI Price: $100 for either 5 Windows or 5 Macintosh CDs.
SCI Item Number SCI-032-5555 - Please specify version when ordering

To order KaleidaGraph
Please fax your purchase order to Science Curriculum Inc. at 303-989-1473 or mail it to Science Curriculum Inc., 200 Union Blvd., Suite G-18, Lakewood, CO 80228.

For more information on KaleidaGraph or to download a trial version, visit the Synergy Software web site at http://kaleidagraph.com.

The Mass of Atoms

SCI-VHS-1965 1-882057-09-0 SCI-DVD-1965 1-882057-10-4 price and ordering

With the appearance of the subject of atoms quite early in the curriculum, students are entitled to understand how we know the mass of a single atom or its equivalent, Avogadro's number. However, in many widely-used textbooks, this important scaling factor between the daily world and the atomic world is either not mentioned at all or is stated without any indication of how it is known

In the now classic experiment shown in The Mass of Atoms, Raymond Hertz and Charles Brewer of Monsanto's Mound Laboratory, find the mass of a single atom by using the simple relationship:

The film shows in detail how these two measurements are carried out.

Produced in 1965 by Education Development Center of Newton, MA, for students of Introductory Physical Science (IPS), The Mass of Atoms is, nevertheless, self-contained, and can be profitably shown in a wide variety of courses, including high- school chemistry and physics.

During The Mass of Atoms, a sample of radioactive polonium is massed and sealed in an evacuated quartz tube and then left to decay. The collection of alpha particles from the decaying polonium provides a sample of helium. After a three-week period, the mass of the helium sample accumulated is found and the rate of decay of the polonium is measured. From these data, the atomic masses of helium and polonium are determined. Throughout the film the various laboratory techniques and precautions necessary for these measurements are shown.

The combination of The Mass of Atoms Parts I and II is presented with the permission of Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts ©1965 Education Development Center, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Re-mastered, 2004; Original, 1965
Running Time: 45 minutes 35 seconds

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