Many peer-mentoring guides claim to be unique. This one is. It trains middle school science teachers to be effective mentors for other middle school teachers, and does so using a long-term, inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning how to be a more effective science educator. The principle's of this guide's procedures and materials were field-tested with 50 mentors and new teachers in a variety of middle schools. Making Science Mentors comes with everything you need to set up and run a comprehensive program: 10 session-by-session lesson plans; a planning and oberservation protocol to guide mentor-mentee interaction, both in conferences and during classroom observation; handouts and citations (on paper and on CD) for use in preparing mentors; and video clips on DVD that show middle grades science classrooms and teacher mentoring. Making Science Mentors is ideal if you don't want to start from scratch when setting up a research-based mentoring system. As the authors promise, "Using this guide, you will master inquiry-based mentoring and share it with mentors, who, in turn, will share it with their mentees, all in the name of improving the classroom experiences, and achievements, of students.".