Teaching Science For All Children

"Teaching Science to Every Child provides timely and practical guidance about teaching science to all students. Particular emphasis is given to making science accessible to students who are typically pushed to the fringe - especially students of color and English language learners. Central to this text is the idea that science can be viewed as a culture, including specific methods of thinking, particular ways of communicating, and specialized kinds of tools. By using culture as a starting point and connecting it to effective instructional approaches, this text gives elementary and middle school science teachers a valuable framework to support the science learning of every student. Written in a conversational style, it treats readers as professional partners in efforts to address vital issues and implement classroom practices that will contribute to closing achievement gaps and advancing the science learning of all children. Features include "Point/Counterpoint" essays that present contrasting perspectives on a variety of science education topics; explicit connections between National Science Education Standards and chapter content; and chapter objectives, bulleted summaries, key terms; reflection and discussion questions. Additional resources are available on the updated and expanded Companion Website www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415892582 Changes in the Second Edition Three entirely new chapters: Integrated Process Skills; Learning and Teaching; Assessment Technological tools and resources embedded throughout each chapter Increased attention to the role of theory as it relates to science teaching and learning Expanded use of science process skills for upper elementary and middle school Additional material about science notebooks "--Provided by publisher

This text aims to promote the teaching of the concepts, skills and attitudes of science in the classroom. Incorporating the National Science Education Standards, this edition provides ways for teachers to foster an understanding among their students of the interactions between science, technology and society.

This truncated, paperback volume is composed of strategies and methods to provide students with an inquiry approach to promote the teaching of the concepts, skills, and attitudes of science in the classroom. Science for All Children: Methods for Constructing Understanding is derived from the successful third edition of Teaching Science for All Children by the same author team. The authors have taken their popular 4E Learning Cycle (Exploration, Explanation, Expansion, and Evaluation) teaching method and applied it throughout this edition with concept story lines. Continuing to incorporate the National Science Education Standards, the authors provide ways for future teachers to foster an awareness among their students of the nature of science. This books allows them to implement skills in the classroom using science inquiry processes and develop in their students an understanding of the interactions among science, technology, and society.

This text is accompanied by a 'Myeducationlan' access code.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "over 60 minutes of brief, interactive video segments of classroom footage, insights from future teachers, and safety demonstrations."--Page 4 of cover.

This compact, paperback volume provides preservice teachers with STRATEGIES AND METHODS of teaching science in the K-8 classroom using Inquiry. The authors integrate the NSE standards, constructivism, and technology, into their popular "E" approach to teaching. Exploration, Explanation, Expansion, and Evaluation make up the 4 "E's" of the learning cycle model first invented by Robert Karplus as part of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study in the 1960s. Teaching Science for All Children: Inquiry Methods for Constructing Understanding provides methods for future teachers to foster awareness among their students of the nature of science; to implement skills in the classroom using science inquiry processes; and to develop in their students an understanding of the interactions among science, technology, and society.

If you like the popular?Teaching Science Through Trade Books? columns in NSTA?s journal Science and Children, or if you?ve become enamored of the award-winning Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series, you?ll love this new collection. It?s based on the same time-saving concept: By using children?s books to pique students? interest, you can combine science teaching with reading instruction in an engaging and effective way.