Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do / Edition 1

by Randi B. Sofman

Overview

Discover winning inquiry-based strategies for teaching science in diverse classrooms using robotics, rockets, straw-bale greenhouses, expeditionary learning, independent research study, technology and music, and much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412924573
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2007
Series:	Best Practices Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	5 - 17 Years

About the Author

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Author
About the Contributors
1. Expeditionary Learning Receives Prestigious Toyota Tapestry Grant: Project Dracula - Peter M. Menth, California
2. Less Is More . . . Really - Stanley A. Wawrzyniak, New Hampshire
3. More Than Just Rockets - Douglas L. Bailer, Alabama
4. Gravity - Carol J. Skousen, Utah
5. Making Microbes Fun - Jason E. Hughes, West Virginia
6. Building Our Curriculum as We Build a Straw-Bale Greenhouse - Sally Ogilvie, Utah
7. Real-World Science Engagement - Kim Reining Gray, Georgia
8. A Method for Inquiry Science - Mark Goldner, Massachusetts
9. Using Technology and Music to Motivate Science Students - Brenda Zabel, Nebraska
10. The Power of Building a Positive Classroom Climate - Cindy Corlett, Colorado
11. Mission Possible - Pam Roller, Indiana
12. Robots: From Science Fiction to Science Fact - Lindsey Prentice, Indiana
13. A Different Kind of Service - Deborah Perryman, Illinois
14. Environmental Studies Enhance Middle School Education - Nancy Elliott, Missouri
15. An Independent Student Research Program Implemented in a Rural Michigan Community - Jeff Shull, Michigan
16. An Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Approach - Jeff Shull, Michigan
17. One Very Special Evening of Science - Frieda Taylor Aiken, Georgia
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Wonderful things are going on in classrooms all around the country. Each of the teachers' stories in this volume provides a look into their classrooms. You will find ideas that can be used or modified in your work. "

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