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

by Randi Stone

Overview

Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-tested best practices for teaching science in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

Linked to companion volumes for teaching writing and mathematics, this resource for new and veteran educators helps build student confidence and success through innovative approaches for raising student achievement in science, such as:

Expeditionary learning, technology and music, and independent research study
Model lessons in environmental studies and real-world science
Inquiry-based strategies using robotics, rockets, straw-bale greenhouses, "Project Dracula," "Making Microbes Fun," and more!

With engaging activities weaving through science fact and fiction to lead learners on intriguing journeys of discovery, this guide is sure to fascinate and inspire both you and your students!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632205452
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Randi Stoneis the author ofnine 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     vii
About the Author     ix
About the Contributors     xi
Expeditionary Learning Receives Prestigious Toyota Tapestry Grant: Project Dracula   Peter M. Menth     1
Less Is More...Really   Stanley A. Wawrzyniak     5
More Than Just Rockets   Douglas L. Bailer     11
Gravity   Carol J. Skousen     15
Making Microbes Fun   Jason E. Hughes     25
Building Our Curriculum as We Build a Straw-Bale Greenhouse   Sally Ogilvie     29
Real-World Science Engagement   Kim Reining-Gray     33
A Method for Inquiry Science   Mark Goldner     39
Using Technology and Music to Motivate Science Students   Brenda Zabel     43
The Power of Building a Positive Classroom Climate   Cindy Corlett     47
Mission Possible   Pam Roller     51
Robots: From Science Fiction to Science Fact   Lindsey Prentice     55
A Different Kind of Service   Deborah Perryman     59
Environmental Studies Enhance Middle School Education   Nancy Elliott     67
An Independent Student Research Program Implemented in a Rural Michigan Community   Jeff Shull     71
An Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Approach   Jeff Shull     75
One Very Special Evening of Science   Frieda Taylor Aiken     81
Index     87

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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