Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science--Notice

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NOTICE: Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science is a completely revised and updated edition of its predecessor volume—science for Children: Resources for Teachers, which was developed and produced by the National Science Resources Center and published by the National Academy Press in 1988.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data
Resources for teaching elementary school science/National Science
Resources Center, National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian
Institution.

p. cm.

Rev. ed. of: Science for children. 1988.

Includes indexes.

ISBN 0-309-05293-9

1. Science—Study and teaching (Elementary)—United States—
Bibliography. I. National Science Resources Center (U.S.)
II. Science for children.
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