Teaching Constructivist Science K 8

Author : Michael L. Bentley,Edward S. Ebert,Christine Ebert
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412925761

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Teaching Constructivist Science, K-8 by Michael L. Bentley,Edward S. Ebert,Christine Ebert Pdf

This reader-friendly text is solidly grounded on the three legged stool of constructivist theory, science content standards and practical applications. In this book for both experienced and novice teachers of elementary and middle school science, the authors connect constructivist compatible theory with practical teaching strategies and activities. Special features include original activities, a rich resource list for the constructivist science teacher, as well as strategies for working with special education students and English language learners (ELLs) in science. Classic and new ideas for student activities include "Big Science" activities such as tissue paper hot air balloons, cardboard boats and catenary arch projects developed by Edward Ebert. Discussion questions for teacher study groups close each chapter.

Author : Peter J. Fensham,Richard F. Gunstone,Richard T. White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317856221

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The Content Of Science: A Constructivist Approach To Its Teaching And learning by Peter J. Fensham,Richard F. Gunstone,Richard T. White Pdf

First published in 1994. Leading scholars in science education from eight countries on four continents and ex-pert practising science teachers (primary and secondary) wrote about the teaching and learning of particular science content or skills, and hence how different science content requires different sorts of teaching and learning. Having shared the papers, they then met to discuss them and subsequently revised them. The result is a coherent set of chapters that share valuable insights about the teaching and learning of science. Some chapters consider the detail of specific topics (e.g. floating and sinking, soil and chemical change), some describe innovative procedures, others provide powerful theory. Together they provide a comprehensive analysis of constructivist learning and teaching implications.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004808092

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Teaching Science for All Children by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : K. V. Sridevi
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Constructivism (Education)
ISBN : 8183563457

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Constructivism in Science Education by K. V. Sridevi Pdf

Study conducted at Demonstration Multipurpose School and Kendriya Vidyalaya situated in Mysore, Karnataka, India.

Author : Cory A. Buxton,Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412975254

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Place-Based Science Teaching and Learning by Cory A. Buxton,Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Pdf

Place-Based Science Teaching and Learning: 40 Activities for K-8 Classrooms address the challenges facing primary and secondary school teachers as they attempt to make science learning relevant to their students. The text provides teachers with a rationale and a set of example activities for teaching science in a local context. Teaching and learning science using this approach will help students to engage with science learning and come to understand the importance of science in their everyday lives.

Author : Kenneth G. Tobin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136489747

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The Practice of Constructivism in Science Education by Kenneth G. Tobin Pdf

This volume provides a needed elaboration of theories and potential applications of constructivism in science education. Although the term "constructivism" is used widely, there has been a dearth of materials to guide science educators concerning the potential of constructivism to influence what is done in the field. In fact, there has been a tendency for constructivism to be viewed as a method that can be used in a classroom. This view tends to diminish the power of constructivism as a way of thinking about education, and in particular, about science education. The chapters in this book address the need to document the theoretical roots of constructivism and to describe how practitioners have applied constructivist oriented beliefs in the practice of K-12 teaching of science and mathematics, as well as teacher education. Not only does this book contain different theoretical perspectives on constructivism, but it also features a chapter that critiques constructivism as an epistemology. Specific topics covered include: * cooperative learning, * the negotiation of meaning, * problem centered learning, * social construction of knowledge, * science in culturally diverse settings, * curriculum planning and implementation, and * instructional technology. Issues associated with the preparation and enhancement of science teachers and the reform of science education are also explored.

Author : Neal A. Glasgow,Michele Cheyne,Randy K. Yerrick
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452215709

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What Successful Science Teachers Do by Neal A. Glasgow,Michele Cheyne,Randy K. Yerrick Pdf

Supercharge your science lessons with proven strategies! The experience and science expertise of these award-winning authors makes this easy-to-use guide a teacher’s treasure trove. Included are 75 research-based strategies, each with a concise description of the supporting research, classroom applications, pitfalls to avoid, and references for additional learning. Teachers of students in Grades K–12 will find novel ways to engage children’s natural curiosity, concern, and creativity. Highlights include how to: Promote collaborative learning Differentiate instruction with culturally responsive practices Build students' scientific literacy and reasoning skills Involve parents in their children's science learning

Author : David Jerner Martin
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0534556493

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Elementary Science Methods by David Jerner Martin Pdf

This text's unique approach guides students in learning by doing. Geared to teachers of preschool through sixth-grade students, it represents the cutting-edge of elementary science teaching with investigations into contemporary topics. Access to InfoTrac College Edition will enhance student understanding.

Author : Xun Ge,Dirk Ifenthaler,J. Michael Spector
Publisher : Springer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319025735

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Emerging Technologies for STEAM Education by Xun Ge,Dirk Ifenthaler,J. Michael Spector Pdf

This theory-to-practice guide offers leading-edge ideas for wide-scale curriculum reform in sciences, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics--the STEAM subjects. Chapters emphasize the critical importance of current and emerging digital technologies in bringing STEM education up to speed and implementing changes to curricula at the classroom level. Of particular interest are the diverse ways of integrating the liberal arts into STEM course content in mutually reshaping humanities education and scientific education. This framework and its many instructive examples are geared to ensure that both educators and students can become innovative thinkers and effective problem-solvers in a knowledge-based society. Included in the coverage: Reconceptualizing a college science learning experience in the new digital era. Using mobile devices to support formal, informal, and semi-formal learning. Change of attitudes, self-concept, and team dynamics in engineering education. The language arts as foundational for science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics. Can K-12 math teachers train students to make valid logical reasoning? Moving forward with STEAM education research. Emerging Technologies for STEAM Education equips educators, education researchers, administrators, and education policymakers with curricular and pedagogical strategies for making STEAM education the bedrock of accessible, relevant learning in keeping with today's digital advances.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Science Education,Heidi A. Schweingruber,Andrew W. Shouse,Sarah Michaels
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309131940

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Ready, Set, SCIENCE! by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Science Education,Heidi A. Schweingruber,Andrew W. Shouse,Sarah Michaels Pdf

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

Author : Sandra K. Abell,Ken Appleton,Deborah L. Hanuscin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135619657

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Handbook of Research on Science Education by Sandra K. Abell,Ken Appleton,Deborah L. Hanuscin Pdf

This state-of-the art research Handbook provides a comprehensive, coherent, current synthesis of the empirical and theoretical research concerning teaching and learning in science and lays down a foundation upon which future research can be built. The contributors, all leading experts in their research areas, represent the international and gender diversity that exists in the science education research community. As a whole, the Handbook of Research on Science Education demonstrates that science education is alive and well and illustrates its vitality. It is an essential resource for the entire science education community, including veteran and emerging researchers, university faculty, graduate students, practitioners in the schools, and science education professionals outside of universities. The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) endorses the Handbook of Research on Science Education as an important and valuable synthesis of the current knowledge in the field of science education by leading individuals in the field. For more information on NARST, please visit: http://www.narst.org/.

Author : Brian Hand,Vaughan Prain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000024926263

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Teaching and Learning in Science by Brian Hand,Vaughan Prain Pdf

This text for trainee science teachers and practitioners aims to provide a comprehensive theoretical overview of current thought on teaching and learning in science at the upper primary and secondary levels. Provides many classroom examples and case studies, and index. The authors include both academics and classroom teachers. The editors are lecturers in education at La Trobe University.

Author : Djanna Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125681394X

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Constructivist and Multicultural Science by Djanna Hill Pdf

Author : Michael R. Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136336768

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Science Teaching by Michael R. Matthews Pdf

Science Teaching explains how history and philosophy of science contributes to the resolution of persistent theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical issues in science education. It shows why it is essential for science teachers to know and appreciate the history and philosophy of the subject they teach and how this knowledge can enrich science instruction and enthuse students in the subject. Through its historical perspective, the book reveals to students, teachers, and researchers the foundations of scientific knowledge and its connection to philosophy, metaphysics, mathematics, and broader social influences including the European Enlightenment, and develops detailed arguments about constructivism, worldviews and science, multicultural science education, inquiry teaching, values, and teacher education. Fully updated and expanded, the 20th Anniversary Edition of this classic text, featuring four new chapters—The Enlightenment Tradition; Joseph Priestley and Photosynthesis; Science, Worldviews and Education; and Nature of Science Research—and 1,300 references, provides a solid foundation for teaching and learning in the field.

Author : Susan Koba,Carol T. Mitchell
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936137459

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Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts by Susan Koba,Carol T. Mitchell Pdf

Authors Susan Koba and Carol Mitchell introduce teachers of grades 3- 5 to their conceptual framework for successful instruction of hard-to-teach science concepts. Their methodology comprises four steps: (1) engage students about their preconceptions and address their thinking; (2) target lessons to be learned; (3) determine appropriate strategies; and (4) use Standards-based teaching that builds on student understandings. The authors not only explain how to use their framework but also provide a variety of tools and examples of its application on four hard-to-teach foundational concepts: the flow of energy and matter in ecosystems, force and motion, matter and its transformation, and Earth's shape. Both preservice and inservice elementary school teachers will find this approach appealing, and the authors' engaging writing style and user-friendly tables help educators adapt the method with ease.