Michael Wysession has coauthored more than 35 science textbooks as part of seven difference science programs at elementary, middle school, high school, and college levels with Blackwell/Wiley, Prentice Hall, Pearson, and Savvas Learning. Through these programs, Wysession been able to ensure the accurate and relevant representation of geoscience in multiple national textbooks at multiple grade levels.
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An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure
by Seth Stein and Michael Wysession
Introduction to Seismology is aimed at an audience of beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduates. The text is designed as a teaching tool, with more than 1300 equations, 600 figures, and 180 homework problems (with solutions available to instructors). For more about this book, including digital versions of all of the figures and the homework solutions in pdf format, see the web site.
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Experience Physics
by Geraldine Cochrane, Chris Moore, Jason Sterlace, and Michael Wysession
Experience Physics is a high school physics program implementing a learning model that organizes learning around phenomena giving students an authentic, real-world experience. Experience Physics includes a variety of hands-on and digital activities designed to reach every learner, and partners with Flinn Scientific to deliver high-quality inquiry labs, engineering workbenches, and performance assessments. The program is designed from the ground up around the performance expectations of the Next Generation Science Standards, using the 5-E’s (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) to allow students to pursue engaging storylines that are usually developed around phenomena in the Earth and Space Sciences, which are heavily integrated into the program. Experience Physics is designed around the structure of the California Three-Course Integrated High School Science Model.
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Experience Chemistry
by Chris Moore, Michael Wysession, and Bryn Lutes
Experience Chemistry is a high school chemistry program implementing a learning model that organizes learning around phenomena giving students an authentic, real-world experience. Experience Chemistry includes a variety of hands-on and digital activities designed to reach every learner, and partners with Flinn Scientific to deliver high-quality inquiry labs, engineering workbenches, and performance assessments. The program is designed from the ground up around the performance expectations of the Next Generation Science Standards, using the 5-E’s (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) to allow students to pursue engaging storylines that are usually developed around phenomena in the Earth and Space Sciences, which are heavily integrated into the program. Experience Chemistry is designed around the structure of the California Three-Course Integrated High School Science Model and has two versions: one version for California that sticks closely to the California curriculum model and a national version that varies slightly through the inclusion of additional topics.
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Elevate Science
by Zipporah Miller, Michael Padilla, and Michael Wysession
Elevate Science is a K-8 phenomena-based science curriculum immersing students in the inquiry process. This is science elevated for problem solving, critical thinking, and the NGSS performance expectations. Separate grade-level volumes are available for elementary school (K-5), and middle school, where volumes are organized either as three volumes of a 3-course integrated program or three volumes for Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth & Space Science.
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Interactive Science
by Michael Padilla, Don Buckley, Zipporah Miller, Kathryn Thornton, and Michael Wysession
Interactive Science is a K-8 national science textbook program that covers biology, chemistry, physics, and earth and space science in a modular and interactive manner. The program is innovative in its integration of content, interactivity, and web content. For more information about this program, see resources for elementary school and middle school.
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Physical Science: Concepts in Action
by Michael Padilla, Don Buckley, Zipporah Miller, Kathryn Thornton, and Michael Wysession
Physical Science: Concepts in Action is a high school (9th grade) Physical Science book, including sections on chemistry, physics, and earth and space sciences. More information about this book, is available here.