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Suggested Citation:"Photo Credits." National Research Council. 2012. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13165.
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PHOTO CREDITS

Special thanks to the students and teachers of the following schools and school districts for inviting photographers and videographers into their science classrooms and for allowing the images of students’ investigations to be included in this volume. We also acknowledge the diligent efforts of the schools’ partner organizations as they seek to improve the quality of K-12 science education, both locally and nationally.

School/School District Partner Organization Pages
Hillside Public Schools (NJ)
Linden Public Schools (NJ)
North Penn School District (PA)
Merck Institute for Science Education
(photos by Merck Photography Services)
32, 61, 126, 146, 238,
314, 323
Parkview School (IL) Northwestern University’s School of
Education and Social Policy (photos by Jim Ziv)
133, 134, 249

Front cover (clockwise from top left): Sun and Earth, © 1999 PhotoDisc Inc., InterNetwork Media, Inc.; students of Japan’s Osaka University operate spider shaped robots “Asterisk” AFP/Stringer/Getty Images; young explorers, © iStockphoto; female scientist working with lasers while doing research in a quantum optics lab ©1996 PhotoDisc, Inc. All rights reserved. Images provided by ©1996 PhotoDisc, Inc./Keith Brofsky; test tubes holding colored liquid, ©2003 Comstock Inc.

Pages: 1 (bottom right) iStockphoto; 9 TERC (all TERC images are video stills from the Talk Science Project); 24 Bigstock; 29 American Images Inc.; 47 Bigstock; 57 Science Museum of Minnesota; 64 iStockphoto; 68 TERC; 72 TERC; 85 Getty Images, photo by Fred Widall; 92 Fotosearch; 97 iStockphoto; 107 Bigstock; 114 iStockphoto; 117 iStockphoto; 122 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Solar Dynamics Observatory, image AIA 304; 129 iStockphoto; 131 Fotosearch; 136 iStockphoto; 143 iStockphoto; 151 iStockphoto; 156 iStockphoto; 159 Fotosearch; 163 iStockphoto; 167 PhotoAlto; 172 NASA/JPL-Caltech; 174 NASA; 177 Tom Keller; 181 iStockphoto; 185 iStockphoto; 187 PhotoDisc; 189 iStockphoto; 194 iStockphoto; 206 iStockphoto; 208 iStockphoto; 213 Fotosearch; 229 TERC; 234 iStockphoto; 244 TERC; 253 TERC; 260 TERC; 263 TERC; 281 TERC; 284 Getty Images, photo by Susan Woog-Wagner; 288 Getty Images; 318 TERC.

Suggested Citation:"Photo Credits." National Research Council. 2012. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13165.
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Suggested Citation:"Photo Credits." National Research Council. 2012. A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13165.
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