Science Stories : Science Methods for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
ISBN: 9780547193106 | 0547193106
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/19/2009
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SCIENCE STORIES helps teachers build their own instructional knowledge through the use of narratives about science in real-world classrooms that demonstrate important content, learning, and strategies in action. Stories are followed by Expanding Meanings sections that highlight the Teaching Ideas, Science Ideas, and Science Standards applicable to each one. Author Janice Koch's constructivist approach guides teachers in the discovery and exploration of their "scientific selves" so that they can learn from students' experiences and become effective scientific explorers in their own classrooms.
| Preface | |
| The Scientist Within | |
| An Invitation to Teaching Science | |
| What Is Science, and Why Teach It? | |
| Science as a Process, a Set of Ideas, and a Way of Thinking | |
| The Value of Teaching Science | |
| Video CASE: Inquiry Learning | |
| How Do Students Learn Science? | |
| Key Tenets of Constructivist Theory | |
| Implications for ... MORE | |
| Science Story: Listening to Students' Ideas | |
| Science Story: The Search for Understanding: A Toaster Story | |
| Standards for Science Education | |
| The Diversity of Science Students | |
| Questions to Ask About Your Students | |
| Connecting Science to All Students | |
| The Role of Technology in Today's Science Teaching | |
| Technology Education Standards | |
| Ways of Using Technology | |
| Issues of Technology Access | |
| Becoming a Science Teacher | |
| Locating Your Scientific Self | |
| Science Story: Why the Balloon Doesn't Pop: An Experience for New Teachers | |
| Teachers as Scientists | |
| Beliefs About Science: We Teach What We Think | |
| What Is a Scientist? | |
| Stereotype Versus Reality | |
| Drawing a Scientist | |
| Interviewing a Scientist | |
| Reflective Practice I: Your Science Autobiography | |
| Writing Your Science Autobiography | |
| Reflecting on Your Science Autobiography | |
| Reflective Practice II: Keeping a Science Journal | |
| A Bird Story: Sample Entries from a Science Journal | |
| Learning from Your Science Journal | |
| Some Guidelines for Your Own Science Journal | |
| The Inner Scientist | |
| Doing Science With Students: Inquiry In Practice | |
| The Teacher as Mediator and Facilitator of Student Learning | |
| Science Story: The Bottle and the Balloon | |
| expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Helping Students Construct Meaning | |
| Prior Knowledge | |
| Valuing the Students' Thinking | |
| Mediating the Students' Learning | |
| science Story: Icicles | |
| The Next Day: From Icicles to Ice Cubes | |
| expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Mediation and Alternative Conceptions | |
| Video Case: Inquiry Learning | |
| Science Story: The "Skin" of Water | |
| An Experiment to Explore Shondra's Question | |
| Further Experiments and Discussion | |
| More Challenges | |
| expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Students as Knowers | |
| Science as a Process: Using the Skills of Scientific Study | |
| Science Notebooks | |
| The Science Circus | |
| Science Story: The Circus Comes to Mount Holly | |
| An Old Log | |
| The Soda Can | |
| Crazy Rocks | |
| The Leaky Faucet | |
| The Penny in the Pie Pan | |
| Three Types of Soil | |
| The Weather Station | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Extending Our Senses with Computer Technology | |
| Real-Time Data Collection Software | |
| Digital Video Technology | |
| Science in the Classroom and in Everyday Life | |
| Family Science Night | |
| Making Connections: Scientific Explorations in the Students' Own Environment | |
| Green Science and the Importance of Experiences with Nature | |
| Diversity Within and Without | |
| Seeing the Larger Picture: Content Plus Context | |
| From Alienation to Inclusion | |
| Video Case: Gender Equity in Science Learning | |
| Science Corners | |
| Making the Science Corner an Interactive Experience | |
| Connections to Literature and Other Subjects | |
| Sample Science Corners from Around the Country | |
| Local Explorations of Global Environmental Issues | |
| Science Story: Ecology Disrupted | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Science Story: How Much Milk Are We Wasting? | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Field Trips | |
| Science Story: Making Connections, Inside and Outside the Classroom | |
| An Urban Park and the Story in the Rocks | |
| The Osage | |
| A Snow Story | |
| Two Seashores | |
| Investigating a Natural Disaster | |
| Coconuts Outside the Door | |
| A Virtual Field Trip | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| The Daily Life of the Classroom | |
| Matter Matters: Getting Messy With Ordinary Objects | |
| Classifying | |
| Science Story: Exploring Solids, Liquids, and Gases | |
| Science Story: Mysterious Matter | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| If It's So Messy, Can It Be Science? | |
| Messiness in the Classroom | |
| Video Case: A Return to the Mystery Bag Lesson | |
| Messiness in the Categories | |
| Sustained Inquiry: Explorations of Living Things | |
| Science Story: What Does It Mean to Be Alive? | |
| What Makes a Rabbit Real? | |
| Are Plants Alive? | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Plants and Animals in Your Science Corner | |
| Science Story: From Seed to Plant: A Failed Experiment | |
| Science Story: What's Inside a Seed? | |
| The Following Days: Germination Bags | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Science Story: Planting in a Vacant Lot | |
| Science Story: When Is a Vegetable a Fruit? | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| A Classroom Invertebrate | |
| Observing and Investigating Earthworms | |
| Science Story: Learning About Earthworms | |
| Questions for Investigations | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Working Together to Conduct Investigations over Time | |
| Spiraling Curriculum: Explorations of Density | |
| Science Story: Looking at Liquids | |
| The Next Day: Building Science Toys to Illustrate Density | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Science Story: Delving Deeper into Density | |
| The Floating Egg | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Extending Curriculum: Taking Advantage of Emerging Relevance | |
| Video Case: Effective Teaching | |
| Science Story: Floating and Sinking Fruits | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Looking Back to Look Ahead | |
| Science Story: Apples, Potatoes, and Density | |
| The Following Days: Further Tests and Measurements | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| "Replacement" of Understandings | |
| Virtual and Concrete Models: Explorations in the Solar System | |
| The Usefulness of Models | |
| Science Story: An Edible Solar System | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Science Story: A Model Orbit | |
| Video Case: Studying Genes with a Simulation | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Science Story: Shapes of the Moon | |
| The Same Side of the Moon | |
| Modeling the Moon Phases | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Using Moon-Phase Journals | |
| Moving Beyond the Science Kit: Explorations of Electricity and Atoms | |
| Science Story: Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires | |
| Science Story: Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires Revisited | |
| The Next Day: Lighting a Shoebox House | |
| Bye-Bye Light Bulb | |
| Continuing Investigations | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Thinking About Teaching and Learning | |
| Science Story: Making Models of Atoms | |
| Exploring the History of Atomic Theory | |
| Mystery Boxes | |
| Discussing the Nucleus | |
| The Periodic Table | |
| The Atom Design Challenge | |
| Expanding Meanings | |
| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
| The Standards Behind This Story | |
| Exploring Further | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Design Technology | |
| Creating The Science Experience In Your Classroom | |
| Planning for Science: Lesson Plans and Instructional Strategies | |
| An Activity Is Not a Lesson | |
| Planning the Lesson | |
| A Planning Guide | |
| If I Know It, Do I Have to Write It? | |
| Time Allotment | |
| After the Planning, the Letting Go! The Role of Questioning | |
| Types of Questions | |
| A Word About Wait Time | |
| Science Learning Groups: Creating an Environment for Cooperative Learning | |
| Cooperative Learning Groups | |
| Constructivism and Small-Group Learning | |
| Scientific Investigation and Group Learning | |
| Structuring Cooperative Learning Groups in Your Classroom | |
| Group Learning with Technology: WebQuests and Online Collaborations | |
| Science Story: A WebQuest on Marine Organisms | |
| Underwater Adventure | |
| Mission | |
| Resources | |
| Conclusion | |
| Inclusive Science Education | |
| Science and the Inclusion Model | |
| Classroom Strategies for Doing | |
| Science with Students with Disabilities | |
| Technology to Increase the Success of Students with Disabilities | |
| Video Case: Assistive Technology | |
| Questions for Your Own Reflection | |
| Science Content and Curriculum: The Big Ideas and Your Scientific Self | |
| Making Big Ideas Your Own Ideas | |
| Ways of Thinking About Science Topics | |
| Systems | |
| The Solar System | |
| Thinking About Systems: The Interconnection of Parts | |
| Human Body Systems | |
| Thinking About Systems: Noticing Similarities and Differences | |
| Simple Machines | |
| Thinking About Systems: Simple Machines as Systems | |
| Thinking About Systems: The Benchmarks for Science Literacy | |
| The Earth as a Super-System | |
| Interactions and Patterns of Change | |
| Heat Energy and Matter | |
| Thinking About Interactions: Chemical and Physical Changes | |
| Thinking About Interactions: Links | |
| Between Interactions and Systems | |
| Electricity | |
| Light | |
| Thinking About Interactions: Making Connections: From Electricity to Heat and Light | |
| Sound | |
| Thinking About Interactions: Sound | |
| Energy and Musical Instruments | |
| Magnetism | |
| From Content to Curriculum | |
| Who Creates the Curriculum? | |
| National Influence and Local Control | |
| STEM Curriculum | |
| Other Interdisciplinary Trends | |
| Developing Curriculum Units | |
| Aligning a Unit of Study with the Standard | |
| Selecting Activities | |
| What Is Missing? | |
| A Checklist for the Science Curriculum | |
| What's the Big Idea? | |
| Matching Assessment to Instruction | |
| Assessment and Testing | |
| Assessment and the Instructional Context | |
| Writing as an Assessment Tool in Science | |
| A Sample Structure for a Science Notebook | |
| Integrating Technology with Science Notebooks | |
| Drawing Pictures and Telling Stories | |
| Assessing Student Notebooks | |
| Other Types of Writing Assignments | |
| Science Story: Middle Schoolers Blog About Organelles | |
| Video CASE: Using Blogs | |
| Using Science Portfolios for Assessment | |
| Assessing Student Portfolios | |
| Using Science Conversations for Assessment | |
| Using Technology to Assess Understanding | |
| Concept Maps | |
| Concept Cartoons | |
| Electronic Presentations | |
| Multiple Types of Performances | |
| Science Story: Third Graders Enact the Water Cycle | |
| Science Story: Second Graders Do a Station | |
| Assessment for a Unit on Matter | |
| Assessment and National Standards | |
| Teaching, Learning, and Assessing | |
| Pulling it All Together: Reflection and Self-Assessment | |
| Your Scientific Self | |
| Becoming a Reflective Teacher | |
| Video CASE: Information Processing and Reflection | |
| Developing a Personal Philosophy | |
| Professional Development | |
| Networking in the Profession | |
| Promotion and Certification Requirements | |
| Further Means of Professional Development | |
| How Am I Doing? | |
| A Guide to Self-Evaluation | |
| Looking Back to Look Ahead: A New Chapter in Your Science | |
| Autobiography | |
| Key Terms | |
| Resources for Further Exploration | |
| Glossary | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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