Teaching Science for All Children: Inquiry Lessons for Constructing Understanding - Softcover

Martin, Ralph; Sexton, Colleen; Franklin, Teresa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205431526 ISBN 13: 9780205431526

Publisher: Pearson, 2004

Synopsis

This compact, paperback volume offers a wealth of lessons, activities, and teaching materials for preservice and inservice teachers alike.

Inquiry Lessons for Constructing Understanding constitutes the second half of the “parent” text, Teaching Science for All Children, 4/e–in other words, Part II: “Inquiry Lessons for Teaching Science. The two introductory chapters provide information on the 4-E learning cycle, proper science concept formation, and some science safety essentials (Ch. 1) as well as how to apply educational technology to the classroom (Ch. 2). In addition, each lesson is correlated with the grade levels and concepts recommended by the NSES framework.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Derived from the fourth edition of Teaching Science for All Children: An Inquiry Approach, this paperback volume offers lessons, activities and teaching materials for the main three science content areas for grades K-8: Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science.

Features:

• Contains more than 60 complete science lessons, which provide more than 150 different activities to encourage hands-on/minds-on activity and high levels of concept formation.
• NEW! Expanded coverage of environmental science. Chapter 11 features a lesson from internationally acclaimed Project Learning Tree modified into a 4-E learning cycle, as well as a full PLT lesson plan on the Companion Website.
• NEW! Each lesson addresses NSES Content Standards for Science as Inquiry, History and Nature of Science, Science in Personal and Social Perspectives, and interrelationships of Science and Technology.
• All lessons are correlated with the National Education Technology Standards (NETS).
• Appendices are thoroughly revised and support the reform efforts advocated by the National Science Education Standards.

Also available:
Teaching Science for All Children: Inquiry Methods for Constructing Understanding, Third Edition
ISBN: 0-205-43153-4
Teaching Science for All Children: An Inquiry Approach, Fourth Edition
ISBN: 0-205-41260-2

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205431526
• ISBN 13: 9780205431526
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 272