William J Straits

A Head Start on Life Science

Encouraging a Sense of Wonder

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Produktbeschreibung

"The A Head Start on Life Science lessons are written to help adults facilitate young children's learning as they work as partners in exploring the natural world. The lessons were designed for developmentally appropriate use in early childhood education settings. Inspired by and adapted from the activities in NSTA's A Head Start on Science: Encouraging a Sense of Wonder (edited by the founder of our project, William Ritz,) each lesson has as its basis active, hands-on involvement of children and focuses not on teaching children "science facts," but rather on nurturing children's innate curiosity about the natural world and encouraging children to make discoveries on their own. Teachers familiar with the activities in the original book will find the lessons here as useful models for expanding science activities into integrated, inquiry lessons. The lessons are intended to help teachers to expand children's thinking in an area of interest and are designed to help teachers to come to understand a method for sequencing learning opportunities that promotes understanding."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781681403489
• ISBN-10: 168140348X
• Artikelnr.: 54722251

Autorenporträt

William Straits is a professor of science education at California State University, Long Beach. He earned a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from the University of California at Irvine (1991); master's degrees in biology from California State University Fullerton (1995) and in curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas at Austin (1997); and a PhD in science education also from the University of Texas at Austin (2001). Throughout his career, as a science teacher and as a teacher educator, he has emphasized the natural and important connections between science and language literacies. He currently serves as director of the National Center for Science in Early Childhood and focuses much of his scholarly work on early childhood science education. He is continually amazed by the loving and tireless work of teachers of young children and humbly hopes that this book, in some small way, aids them in their efforts-- helping children to heighten and expand their joyful " sense of wonder" about the natural world.