For social studies methods courses for elementary education. A new edition of the most-popular elementary social studies methods text on the market houses a wealth of content, strategies, tools and resources for teaching social studies, K-8. Writing with the same clarity, friendly tone, and solid content of previous editions, Parker details the ...
ELEMENTARY SCIENCE METHODS: A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH, Fifth Edition, is based on two fundamental and complementary ideas: it is more important for children to learn how to do science than to learn about science, and elementary science teachers do not need to know a great deal of science but rather should be co- inquirers with their students. To ...
Science is a quest for explanations. This popular text continues to encourage teachers to help their students learn through discovery, while also providing content on the latest techniques in science teaching. This edition has been thoroughly revised and features a new co-author, Dr. Donald DeRosa of Boston University and a larger trim size and ...
For courses in Science Methods in Elementary School (K-8). Research tells us that an inquiry approach to science teaching motivates and engages every type of student, helping them understand science's relevance to their lives, as well as the nature of science itself. Teaching Science as Inquiry demonstrates a manageable way for new and ...
With clear reference to the NCSS standards, this text provides students with strategies for involving children in social studies content that emphasize inquiry, concepts and moral development. The seventh edition of this extremely popular text maintains its focus on the child. Attention is focused on the knowledge base, or "what children should ...
Research tells us that an inquiry approach to science teaching motivates and engages every type of student, helping them understand science's relevance to their lives, as well as the nature of science itself. Teaching Science as Inquiry demonstrates a manageable way for new and experienced teachers to bring inquiry successfully into the science ...
For courses in Science Methods in Elementary School. This is the quintessential science text designed to introduce future teachers to science instruction through inquiry. Infused with the philosophical intent of the National Science Education Standards, it includes the theory behind knowledge construction, the how-tos of knowledge acquisition, ...
For all science teachers in grades 5-12, here is an exciting collection of ready-to-use lessons, project and lab activities to help student relate basic science concepts and skills to every-day life and answer the question, "Why do I need to know this?" Included are 22 comprehensive, test lessons in five major areas of general science, ...
This resource features more than 30 children's fiction titles that are rich in scientific concepts yet equally well-known for their story lines and universal appeal. This new edition is revised and updated, with new titles, new activities, and Internet references added to the bibliographies.
The Fourth Edition of this popular elementary science methods text emphasizes learning science through inquiry, implementation of the Learning Cycle, NSE standards, constructivism, technology, and strategies for teaching diverse learners. This compact version of the larger fifth edition text includes only the methods chapters and omits the content ...
This is a comprehensive, easy-to-use text containing more than 300 science teaching activities, 30 of which are new to this edition. This book's focus on the inquiry approach places value on the student's thinking and doing science, and ties the text to the inquiry-oriented National Science Education Standards for science teaching issued by the ...
What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, "Taking Science to School" provides a comprehensive picture of what we know about teaching and learning science from kindergarten through eighth grade. By looking at a broad range of ...
What experiences can we provide to enhance the growth of the scientist within each child? This book aims to answer that question, suggesting how students can investigate, explore and discover, using their own questions, curiousities and interests.
Use science notebooks and watch as your students write as scientists do, share their thinking, support their ideas with evidence, and improve their literacy through reading, writing, and speaking.
Children can learn all about energy with this fascinating book that includes a hologram showing the movement inside a nuclear reactor, a feather that demonstrates static electricity, a transparent acetate page revealing how a hydroelectric power plant lights a city, and more. Full color.
The new edition of this best-selling textbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the many aspects of teaching primary science, maintaining its strong focus on constructivist learning and the role of social interaction in learning. With emphasis on the child-centred approach, the book also promotes the importance of fostering motivation for ...
What specific strategies and techniques will help foster discovery learning? The new edition of Teaching Children Science: Discovery Methods for the Elementary and Middle Grades provides the answers to that question. This truncated volume is composed of the first nine chapters from Teaching Children Science: A Discovery Approach, Seventh Edition ...
Seamless Assessment in Science . . . "is the kind of book one reads and thinks, "I wish I would have done that." Well, Sandra Abell and Mark Volkmann did, and both elementary and middle school teachers and their students are better because they did." - Rodger Bybee, Executive Director, BSCSWhen you open your science classroom to inquiry-based ...
Social studies lessons come alive with these classroom-tested, creative, hands-on activities such as fold-up maps, wonder circles, The Export Game, and paper-chain timelines. This great resource, created by four elementary school teachers, is jam-packed with fun mapping, timeline, and report writing ideas that really work.
"A must-have for every elementary science teacher striving to be highly effective and for every support person addressing the needs of science teachers." - Linda FroschauerNSTA President 2006 - 2007 "This important book helps us understand the details of effective science instruction in the elementary grades. Our job is to learn from this work and ...
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