Big Picture Science provides: Learning materials for Montessori teachers Elementary and middle school level materials Help with WHAT to teach Current science information and resources A place to take your questions about science teaching Priscilla Spears, Ph.D. owns Big Picture Science and writes its materials. She has experience as a research scientist in microbiology and immunology. She has been a Montessori parent for 10 years and taught science lessons at lower and upper elementary levels, as well as assisting with elementary teacher training. Priscilla is now available to give botany and other science workshops for teachers. E-mail for more information. Priscilla is a consultant for In-Print for Children and has helped with the creation of a number of elementary science materials. See http://www.in-printforchildren.com/ for more information What's New at Big Picture Science Priscilla's new book on flowering plants is out! A Tour of the Flowering Plants: Based on the Classification System of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group shows a useful system of families and orders, as well as higher levels of classification. You can read about it and order it at: MBG Press. Order it at Amazon.com! Big Picture Science is shifting to wholesale. Now you can purchase Big Picture Science learning materials through Montessori Services (North America) and Montessori Downunder (New Zealand and Australia). If you need something that these two companies do not offer, feel free to contact Priscilla to make special arrangements. See the "Ordering" page for more informationa. Back issues of Big Picture Science Newsletter are now available online Selected back issues of Big Picture Science Newsletter from 1999-2002 are posted here as pdf files. Click here to reach them. These files can be downloaded and printed free of charge. Photocards for botany Photocard set 1, Phyla of the Plant Kingdom, has been revised. The second edition has more images and includes more reproductive structures. It includes a photo of Welwitschia, that hard-to-find gnetophyte. Also available: Flowers: Stamens and Pistils. This set of letter-sized images shows close-ups of 12 flowers and has text for lower and upper elementary students and background information for their teachers. New learning materials for introducing matter and atoms Priscilla has worked with InPrint for Children on several new charts and cards sets. You can see them at http://www.in-printforchildren.com/. They include a magnetic periodic table and cards that show everyday objects and the elements that compose them. There are also materials for learning the parts of an atom, element names and symbols, the difference between physical and chemical changes, and the classification of matter. Priscilla wrote the background information and lesson suggestions for teachers for each of the materials.