For Elementary Science Methods courses.
Streamlined to be more manageable in limited class time, the new edition of Science in Elementary Education: Methods, Concepts, and Inquiries has been crafted to prepare pre-service teachers for today’s science classroom. It accomplishes this by modeling inquiry teaching, addressing the planning and needs of inquiry teaching classrooms, and describing the materials teachers need to get up and running.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Science Inquiry and the Nature of Science
Chapter 2 Constructing Science Experiences
Chapter 3 Planning for Inquiry
Chapter 4 Developing Inquiry Skills
Chapter 5 Assessment
Chapter 6 Science Experiences for All Students
Chapter 7 Constructing Technological Understandings
Chapter 8 Science Learning Opportunities
Inquiry Unit 1 Light Energy and Color
Inquiry Unit 2 Heat Energy
Inquiry Unit 3 Sound Energy
Inquiry Unit 4 Magnetic Interactions
Inquiry Unit 5 Electrical Energy
Inquiry Unit 6 Simple Machines
Inquiry Unit 7 Plant Life
Inquiry Unit 8 Animal Life
Inquiry Unit 9 The Human Body and Nutrition
Inquiry Unit 10 The Earth's Changing Surface
Inquiry Unit 11 Water, Air, and Weather
Inquiry Unit 12 The Earth in Space