You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Sure, you teach science. But do your students really learn it? Students of all ages will absorb more if you adapt the way you teach to the way they learn. That's the message of this thoughtful collection of 12 essays by noted science teachers. Based on the latest research, this is definitely a scholarly book. But to bring theories to life, it includes realistic scenarios featuring classrooms where students are encouraged to construct their own science learning. These scenarios will give you specific ideas on how to help your students become more reflective about their learning process, including what they know, what their stumbling blocks are, and how to overcome them. You'll also examine how to use formative assessment to gauge student learning during the course of a lesson, not just at the end.
Laboratory experiences as a part of most U.S. high school science curricula have been taken for granted for decades, but they have rarely been carefully examined. What do they contribute to science learning? What can they contribute to science learning? What is the current status of labs in our nation�s high schools as a context for learning science? This book looks at a range of questions about how laboratory experiences fit into U.S. high schools: What is effective laboratory teaching? What does research tell us about learning in high school science labs? How should student learning in laboratory experiences be assessed? Do all student have access to laboratory experiences? What...
This collection of 16 essays is ideal for staff development providers, as well as preservice science methods instructors. Each essay describes a specific program designed to train current or future teachers to carry out the constructivist, inquiry-based approach of the Standards. Each essay also provides evidence of effectiveness on how teachers grow more confident using inquiry approaches,
Create an active learning environment in grades K-12 using the 5E inquiry-based science model! Featuring a practical guide to implementing the 5E model of instruction, this resource clearly explains each "E" in the 5E model of inquiry-based science. It provides teachers with practical strategies for stimulating inquiry with students and includes lesson ideas. Suggestions are provided for encouraging students to investigate and advance their understanding of science topics in meaningful and engaging ways. This resource supports core concepts of STEM instruction.
Hands-on lessons can be fun and compelling, but when it comes to life science, they aren't always possible, practical, effective, or safe. Children can't follow a lion as it stalks a gazelle, visit the exotic kapok tree in a rain forest, or swim alongside the underwater life in a pond. But they can explore a whole world of animals, plants, and ecosystems through the pages of beautifully illustrated, science-themed picture books. Perfect Pairs , which marries fiction and nonfiction picture books focused on life science, helps educators think about and teach life science in a whole new way. Each of the twenty-two lessons in this book is built around a pair of books that introduces a critical l...
The basic aims of contemporary thinking in education are to cultivate a proper comprehension of the meaning and purpose of education and the role of the teacher, and to develop adequate theoretical and methodological frameworks that combine some of the positive sides of the leading theories, while avoiding their disadvantages. Toward these ends, one excellent candidate for consideration is Alfred North Whitehead’s (1861-1947) process-relational philosophy of education, as set forth in The Aims of Education (1929) and elsewhere. The contributors to this volume analyze Whitehead’s philosophy of education in a detailed and critical fashion, including inquiring into the development of cycle-...
Roswell Connection is told by an Extraterrestrial Contactee or ETC. Theresa aka TJ has had an extraordinary life that includes being contacted throughout her present life. TJ has had several meetings with death. TJ explains her extraordinary extrasensory experiences that she describes as beyond the perception of what we claim to be of earth.TJ became an instructor of the esoteric and metaphysical while keeping her faith, hope, and love for all sentient intelligent beings on earth.TJ is also described as a human hybrid with enhanced DNA. We may find that we are more than we think or want to believe. TJ befriends all who desire to take the spiritual path with her on the journey she calls being Ascension Centered for Enlightenment. Truth Seekers call TJ the Seer.Roswell Connection is about aliens, ETs, UFOs, flying saucers, extraterrestrials, Extraterrestrial Contactees, reports, sightings, Roswell New Mexico, White Sands, U.S. Army, underground, government, 2012, future, technology, hybrids
In 2001, with support from National Science Foundation, the National Research Council began a review of the evidence concerning whether or not the National Science Education Standards have had an impact on the science education enterprise to date, and if so, what that impact has been. This publication represents the second phase of a three-phase effort by the National Research Council to answer that broad and very important question. Phase I began in 1999 and was completed in 2001, with publication of Investigating the Influence of Standards: A Framework for Research in Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (National Research Council, 2002). That report provided organizing principle...
Technologies play key roles in transforming classrooms into flexible and open learning spaces that tap into vast educational databases, personalize learning, unlock access to virtual and online communities, and eliminate the boundaries between formal and non-formal education. Online –virtual and remote– laboratories reflect the current IT trend in STEM school sector. The book addresses this topic by introducing several remote experiments practices for engaging and inspiring K12 students.
Featuring an easy-to-follow organization and sample pages from major products, this resource will help all students become technologically literate!"--Jacket.