THE FRUGAL SCIENCE TEACHER 6-9

Teachers of all grades and disciplines often dip into their own wallets to outfit their classrooms with materials and supplies that school and district budgets can't, or won't, cover. Science teachers tend to find themselves supplementing their shrinking funds with even greater frequency.

This collection of essays, carefully selected by former NSTA president and Science and Children editor Linda Froschuer, outlines creative and inexpensive ways for sixth- through ninth-grade science teachers to keep their expenses to a minimum in five categories: Student-Created Constructions; Teacher-Created Constructions and Repurposed Materials; Teaching Strategies that Maximize the Budget; Instructional Lessons That Maximize the Budget; and Funds and Materials.