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Best Practices for Teaching Science

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

By: Randi Stone

Connect your students to science projects that are intriguing and fun!

Let Randi Stone and her award-winning teachers demonstrate tried-and-true best practices for teaching science and raising student achievement in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Both new and veteran educators will discover inquiry-based strategies that use robotics, rockets, straw-bale greenhouses, and much more. Linked to companion volumes for teaching writing and mathematics, this resource helps build student confidence and success with innovative approaches that include:

Expeditionary learning, technology and music, and independent research study
Model lessons in environmental studies and real-world science
"Project Dracula," "Making Microbes Fun," and more

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412924573
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 112
Publication date: April 05, 2007

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Description

Connect your students to science projects that are intriguing and fun!

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!

Key features

17 tried-and-tested best practices for teaching inquiry-based science to elementary, middle school, and high school learners
Award-winning classroom teachers model and explain how to use robotics, rockets, straw-bale greenhouses, expedition learning, technology and music, independent research study, and much more
Companion volumes feature strategies for teaching Writing and Mathematics

Author(s)

Randi Stone

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

2. Less Is More . . . Really

3. More Than Just Rockets

4. Gravity

5. Making Microbes Fun

6. Building Our Curriculum as We Build a Straw-Bale Greenhouse

7. Real-World Science Engagement

8. A Method for Inquiry Science

9. Using Technology and Music to Motivate Science Students

10. The Power of Building a Positive Classroom Climate

11. Mission Possible

12. Robots: From Science Fiction to Science Fact

13. A Different Kind of Service

14. Environmental Studies Enhance Middle School Education

15. An Independent Student Research Program Implemented in a Rural Michigan Community

16. An Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Approach

17. One Very Special Evening of Science

Index

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"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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