Teaching Science to Children: An Inquiry Approach

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Teaching Science to Children: An Inquiry Approach is a comprehensive, easy-to-use text containing more than 300 science activities for the classroom. The text's focus on the inquiry approach places value on thinking and doing science, and ties the text to the inquiry-oriented National Science Education Standards for science teaching issued by the National Research Council. Each of the inquiry activities contains combined discussions of methods and content. The text helps students overcome science anxiety and ...
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Teaching Science to Children: An Inquiry Approach is a comprehensive, easy-to-use text containing more than 300 science activities for the classroom. The text's focus on the inquiry approach places value on thinking and doing science, and ties the text to the inquiry-oriented National Science Education Standards for science teaching issued by the National Research Council. Each of the inquiry activities contains combined discussions of methods and content. The text helps students overcome science anxiety and shows them how easy it is to teach science using a simple, consistent, three-step approach to each of the science activities (set induction, investigation, and resolution). All activities use simple, easy-to-find materials. Over 250 pieces of line art clearly illustrate the teaching activities.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780072380576
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
  • Publication date: 8/23/2000
  • Edition description: Older Edition
  • Edition number: 5
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 8.00 (w) x 9.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Alfred E. Friedl is Emeritus Professor of Education at Kent State University. He received the first eight years of his education in a one-room elementary school in Minnesota. He attended high school in Albany, Minnesota, and received an undergraduate degree from Saint Cloud State College. Professor Friedl began his teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Minnesota and California. After receiving his doctorate in Education from Colorado State University, he served as a curriculum coordinator for the San Diego County Department of Education. He also taught extension classes for San Diego State University and UCLA. He later moved to Kent State University where he taught for twenty-five years. In addition to winning an “outstanding teacher” award from Kent State, he also won a national teaching award for writing and presenting a 13-week television series entitled, “Teaching Children about Space Science.” Professor Friedl has written extensively for more than three decades—authoring or co-authoring more than twenty books. He co-authored his first book, YOUR SCIENCE FAIR, while still a sixth grade teacher. His most recent books include MODERN PHYSICAL SCIENCE and EXERCISES AND INVESTIGATIONS, both high school science textbooks.

Trish Koontz is an associate professor of Mathematics and Science Education at Kent State University in the College of Education. She received her Ph.D. in education from Kent State University where she has been on the faculty since 1983. A former elementary, middle, and high school teacher, she has authored or co-authored several chapters and articles dealing with her special interests in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science as well as gender equity issues in education. She has received several teaching awards including a Best Practices Award from the State of Ohio for her National Science Foundation grant project.

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Table of Contents

Introduction safety in the classroom
Ch. 1 The methods 1
Ch. 2 Teaching science to all children : national goals 18
Ch. 3 Technology in the science classroom 27
Ch. 4 Teaching children about the characteristics of matter 43
Ch. 5 Teaching children about heat energy 69
Ch. 6 Teaching children about magnetism 92
Ch. 7 Teaching children about static and current electricity 102
Ch. 8 Teaching children about sound 129
Ch. 9 Teaching children about light, lenses, and color 150
Ch. 10 Teaching children about simple machines 178
Ch. 11 Teaching children about air, air pressure, and flight 201
Ch. 12 Teaching children about weather and climate 227
Ch. 13 Teaching children about space science 248
Ch. 14 Teaching children about the sun, moon, and stars 266
Ch. 15 Teaching children about the earth (geology) 282
Ch. 16 Teaching children about the oceans 302
Ch. 17 Teaching children about energy, environment, and pollution 319
Ch. 18 Teaching children about the plant and fungi kingdoms 346
Ch. 19 Teaching children about the animal kingdom 366
Ch. 20 Teaching children about nutrition and health 386
Ch. 21 Teaching children about fitness : the heart, lungs, and muscles 410
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