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Best Practices for Teaching Science

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-4129-2457-3
Verlag: Corwin
Erscheinungstermin: 28.03.2007
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Connect your students to science projects that are intriguing and fun!

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!


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781412924573
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-4129-2457-3
  • Verlag: Corwin
  • Erscheinungstermin: 28.03.2007
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2007
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 175 g
  • Seiten: 112
  • Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 6 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

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Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

PrefaceAbout the AuthorAbout the Contributors1. Expeditionary Learning Receives Prestigious Toyota Tapestry Grant: Project Dracula - Peter M. Menth, California2. Less Is More . . . Really - Stanley A. Wawrzyniak, New Hampshire3. More Than Just Rockets - Douglas L. Bailer, Alabama4. Gravity - Carol J. Skousen, Utah5. Making Microbes Fun - Jason E. Hughes, West Virginia6. Building Our Curriculum as We Build a Straw-Bale Greenhouse - Sally Ogilvie, Utah7. Real-World Science Engagement - Kim Reining Gray, Georgia8. A Method for Inquiry Science - Mark Goldner, Massachusetts9. Using Technology and Music to Motivate Science Students - Brenda Zabel, Nebraska10. The Power of Building a Positive Classroom Climate - Cindy Corlett, Colorado11. Mission Possible - Pam Roller, Indiana12. Robots: From Science Fiction to Science Fact - Lindsey Prentice, Indiana13. A Different Kind of Service - Deborah Perryman, Illinois14. Environmental Studies Enhance Middle School Education - Nancy Elliott, Missouri15. An Independent Student Research Program Implemented in a Rural Michigan Community - Jeff Shull, Michigan16. An Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Approach - Jeff Shull, Michigan17. One Very Special Evening of Science - Frieda Taylor Aiken, GeorgiaIndex