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Author : David Jerner Martin
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0766813193
Open-ended inquiry activities from a constructionist perspective for young children. Basic processes include: observing, classifying, communicating, measuring, predicting, and inferring,
Author : Carla Zembal-Saul,Katherine L. McNeill,Kimber Hershberger
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 0132117266
With the view that children are capable young scientists, authors encourage science teaching in ways that nurture students' curiosity about how the natural world works including research-based approaches to support all K-5 children constructing scientific explanations via talk and writing. Grounded in NSF-funded research, this book/DVD provides K-5 teachers with a framework for explanation (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) that they can use to organize everything from planning to instructional strategies and from scaffolds to assessment. Because the framework addresses not only having students learn scientific explanations but also construct them from evidence and evaluate them, it is considered to build upon the new NRC framework for K-12 science education, the national standards, and reform documents in science education, as well as national standards in literacy around argumentation and persuasion, including the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2010).The chapters guide teachers step by step through presenting the framework for students, identifying opportunities to incorporate scientific explanation into lessons, providing curricular scaffolds (that fade over time) to support all students including ELLs and students with special needs, developing scientific explanation assessment tasks, and using the information from assessment tasks to inform instruction.
Author : Christine Chaillé,Lory Britain
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Constructivism (Education)
ISBN : 0205367763
Young children - how they experience the world, interact with each other, pose questions and problems, and construct knowledge - form the basis for this insightful examination of early childhood science education. Authors Chaille and Britain explore the teacher's role in understanding and facilitating preschool and primary-school children's scientific explorations. Using three traditional content areas of science - chemistry, physics, and biology - and translating them into developmentally appropriate practices, The Young Child as Scientist leaves behind rigid views of science education. Both teachers and students of early childhood education are led to reconceptualize science in ways that have implications for their whole classroom. Without being a cookbook approach to curriculum planning or a purely theoretical approach, the text weaves practical examples and theory together to present constructivism as it can be implemented in real preschool and elementary classrooms. -- Provided by publisher
Author : Gunilla Dahlberg,Peter Moss,Alan Pence,Dr Alan Pence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134113514
This book challenges received wisdom and the tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical issues of measurement and management.
Author : Nancy L. Gallenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Critical thinking in children
ISBN : 0871731592
Author : Sharon Ryan,M. Elizabeth Graue,Vivian L. Gadsden,Felice J. Levine
Publisher : American Educational Research Association
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780935302851
This volume employs a multidisciplinary approach to research on a high-profile topic very much on the agenda of state and national policy leaders: early childhood development and education. It aims to reflect how scholarly perspectives shape the contours of knowledge generation, and to illuminate the gaps that prevent productive interchange among scholars who value equity in the opportunities available to young children, their families, and teachers/caregivers. The editors and authors identify and prioritize critical research areas; assess the state of the field in terms of promising research designs and methodologies; and identify capacity-building needs and potential cross-group collaborations.
Author : Jean-Marie Boilevin,Alice Delserieys,Konstantinos Ravanis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031081583
This edited volume provides an in-depth exploration of a theoretical framework supporting Early Childhood Science Education research and teaching best practices. Particularly by presenting the concept of the Precursor Model from an epistemological, psychological, and didactical point of view at Early Childhood Science Education. The book examines and discusses the nature of Precursor Models and their use for early science teaching and learning. It scrutinizes different aspects of the construction of such models applied in early childhood education settings and contexts. Several empirical studies are presented within diverse scientific domains, as well as in international educational contexts. By providing a vary of examples of precursor models it makes this book a great companion for teachers aiming to teach children to understand and reason about topics such as: floating and sinking; shadow formation; water state changes; air; clouds and rain; electricity; inheritance and selection; as well as variation within populations. Finally, this volume supports the development of science education from an early age by using the original framework of a precursor model to mediate teaching and learning science at school during early childhood.
Author : Jean Durgin Harlan,Mary S. Rivkin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Learning by discovery
ISBN : 013237336X
This text takes an integrated approach to science and emphasizes understanding and addressing children's affective nature. It remains a forward-thinking, innovative resource for teaching science to young learners. Core chapters cover areas of study such as plants, animals, the human body, water, rocks and minerals, magnetism, simple machines, and the environment. Within chapters, suggested children's learning experiences are structured around key concepts in each area, making content extremely adaptable to early learning and science standards.
Author : Shannan McNair
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780873552684
You asked for it---now you've got it In a focus group at a recent NSTA convention, teachers of prekindergarten through second grade clamored for help. They do want easy-to-do science activities they can use for everyday teaching. But they don't want to be forced to adapt material meant for older children. So here's the solution. Start Young offers a wealth of simple educational activities designed to use right away with even the littlest scientists. The book includes a chapter of helpful background on the latest thinking about effective ways to introduce science in early childhood. But the bulk of the book is two dozen articles compiled from Science & Children, NSTA's award-winning journal for elementary school teachers
Author : Coral Campbell,Wendy Jobling,Christine Howitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781108811965
Science in Early Childhood is the essential science education resource for all pre-service early childhood educators.
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Science Education,Committee on Science Learning, Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309133838
What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a comprehensive picture of what we know about teaching and learning science from kindergarten through eighth grade. By looking at a broad range of questions, this book provides a basic foundation for guiding science teaching and supporting students in their learning. Taking Science to School answers such questions as: When do children begin to learn about science? Are there critical stages in a child's development of such scientific concepts as mass or animate objects? What role does nonschool learning play in children's knowledge of science? How can science education capitalize on children's natural curiosity? What are the best tasks for books, lectures, and hands-on learning? How can teachers be taught to teach science? The book also provides a detailed examination of how we know what we know about children's learning of scienceâ€"about the role of research and evidence. This book will be an essential resource for everyone involved in K-8 science educationâ€"teachers, principals, boards of education, teacher education providers and accreditors, education researchers, federal education agencies, and state and federal policy makers. It will also be a useful guide for parents and others interested in how children learn.
Author : Mike Watts,Alison Silby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429809842
The educational provision for early years is growing and changing across many parts of the world, not least in the UK. While this book leans heavily on the mounting literature on early child development in its broadest sense – physically, emotionally, linguistically – its central focus lies squarely on the growth of children’s scientific thinking and activities. Written by educators, this book is based both on formal educational research and professional practice-in-action. The authors describe children’s science concept development; their curiosity-driven exploration; emergent ecological literacy; their learning through science play; the assessment of early learning; the role of parents and practitioners within early education contexts; and some question the very basis of the science being taught. Illustrations and examples of practice are not confined to the UK, though the messages to be derived from each chapter have application way beyond the immediate context. This book was originally published as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care.
Author : Linda A. White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487514464
In Constructing Policy Change, Linda A. White examines the expansion of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in liberal welfare states, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. In the first part of the book, the author investigates the sources of policy ideas that triggered ECEC changes in various national contexts. This is followed by a close analysis of cross-national variation in the implementation of ECEC policy in Canada and the USA. White argues that the primary mechanisms for policy change are grounded in policy investment logics as well as cultural logics: that is, shifts in public sentiments and government beliefs about the value of ECEC policies and programs are rooted in both evidence-based arguments and in principled beliefs about the policy. A rich, nuanced examination of the reasons motivating ECEC policy expansion and adoption in different countries, Constructing Policy Change is a corrective to the comparative welfare state literature that focuses on political interest alone.
Author : John T. Almarode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429516443
Focused on engaging all students, Inclusive Teaching in the Early Childhood Science Classroom walks readers through the process of planning, developing, and implementing science instruction for early learners. Drawing on a range of pedagogical processes and approaches, this comprehensive text links science to other disciplines and explores how we develop language, social-emotional, and content learning through early childhood science. Each chapter is framed around an essential question and features success criteria and reflection tasks to guide readers through the content. Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards and addressing the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium Model Core Teaching Standards, this textbook is critical reading for preservice teacher education students enrolled in an inclusive early childhood or early childhood science methods course.
Author : Chaille Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1714823822
Young children - how they experience the world, interact with each other, pose questions and problems, and construct knowledge - form the basis for this insightful examination of early childhood science education. Authors Chaille and Britain explore the teacher's role in understanding and facilitating preschool and primary-school children's scientific explorations. Using three traditional content areas of science - chemistry, physics, and biology - and translating them into developmentally appropriate practices, The Young Child as Scientist leaves behind rigid views of science education. Both teachers and students of early childhood education are led to reconceptualize science in ways that have implications for their whole classroom. Without being a cookbook approach to curriculum planning or a purely theoretical approach, the text weaves practical examples and theory together to present constructivism as it can be implemented in real preschool and elementary classrooms.
