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Kerry C. Williams, George E. VeomettPublication Details
BookCorwin Press, a Sage Pub. Co2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) LB1585 .W473 2007 NEW BOOK(MAIN) New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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All educators will find examples, questions, stories, and thought-provoking ideas to give students a strong start in science achievement, plus: Six key elements to build into science instruction: observing, representing, organizing, patterning and questioning, experimenting, and sharing How-to’s for incorporating inquiry, workshops, centers, and projects in primary and elementary classrooms A four-step system?choice, planning, doing, reviewing?that helps promote learning in science and across all subjects Launching Learners in Science, PreK?5 helps educators teach science in a way that will expand their own confidence and let them make a lasting difference in children’s lives! (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- pt. I. Welcome to Launching Learners in Science
- 1. The origin of Launching Learners in Science
- Knowing science
- Knowing children and how they learn
- Knowing structures that facilitate learning and teaching science - - Changing emphases
- Outline of the NSES science content standards
- I. Unifying concepts and processes
- IIA. Science as inquiry
- IIIB. Physical science content standards
- IIIC. Life science standards
- IVD. Earth and space science
- VE. Science and technology
- VIF. Science in personal and social perspective
- VIIG. History and nature of science
- Conversation starters
- 2. The nature of science
- What is the nature of science?
- Science as a body of knowledge
- Science as process
- Elements of the scientific process
- A historical example
- Science as process in elementary school
- Reviewing the nature of science in elementary education
- Conversation starters
- 3. Prior beliefs, efficacy, and teaching science
- Influence of experiences and beliefs on practice
- Efficacy
- Reflecting on the walls of teaching science
- Getting around the walls
- Wall #1 : do not know enough science content
- Wall #2 : students need to know the "right answers"
- Wall #3 : I don’t have time to teach science
- Wall #4 : active science lessons disrupt my classroom management
- Reflecting on you own science walls
- Conversation starters
ISBN
- 9781412937030
- 1412937035
- 9781412937023
- 1412937027
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