Randi Stone

Best Practices for Teaching Science (eBook, ePUB)

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested best practices for teaching science in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Linked to companion volumes for teaching writing and mathematics, this resource for new and veteran educators helps build student confidence and success through innovative approaches for raising student achievement in science, such as:

Expeditionary learning, technology and music, and independent research study
Model lessons in environmental studies and real-world science
Inquiry-based strategies using robotics, rockets, straw-bale greenhouses, "Project Dracula," "Making Microbes Fun," and more!

With engaging activities weaving through science fact and fiction to lead learners on intriguing journeys of discovery, this guide is sure to fascinate and inspire both you and your students!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781632209627
• Artikelnr.: 54932286

Autorenporträt

Randi Stone received her Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University and Salem State College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
About the Author
About the Contributors
1. Expeditionary Learning Receives Prestigious Toyota Tapestry Grant:
Project Dracula - Peter M. Menth, California
2. Less Is More . . . Really - Stanley A. Wawrzyniak, New Hampshire
3. More Than Just Rockets - Douglas L. Bailer, Alabama
4. Gravity - Carol J. Skousen, Utah
5. Making Microbes Fun - Jason E. Hughes, West Virginia
6. Building Our Curriculum as We Build a Straw-Bale Greenhouse - Sally
Ogilvie, Utah
7. Real-World Science Engagement - Kim Reining Gray, Georgia
8. A Method for Inquiry Science - Mark Goldner, Massachusetts
9. Using Technology and Music to Motivate Science Students - Brenda Zabel,
Nebraska
10. The Power of Building a Positive Classroom Climate - Cindy Corlett,
Colorado
11. Mission Possible - Pam Roller, Indiana
12. Robots: From Science Fiction to Science Fact - Lindsey Prentice,
Indiana
13. A Different Kind of Service - Deborah Perryman, Illinois
14. Environmental Studies Enhance Middle School Education - Nancy Elliott,
Missouri
15. An Independent Student Research Program Implemented in a Rural Michigan
Community - Jeff Shull, Michigan
16. An Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Approach - Jeff Shull, Michigan
17. One Very Special Evening of Science - Frieda Taylor Aiken, Georgia
Index

Rezensionen

"Wonderful things are going on in classrooms all around the country. Each of the teachers' stories in this volume provides a look into their classrooms. You will find ideas that can be used or modified in your work."