Science Stories: Science Methods for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
By Janice Koch
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SCIENCE STORIES helps preservice and inservice teachers contextualize what it looks like to engage their students in meaningful science experiences. Using narratives about science teaching and learning in real-world classrooms, this text demonstrates important content and strategies in action. Author Janice Koch's approach guides teachers in discovering and exploring their "scientific selves," enabling them to learn from students' experiences and become effective scientific explorers in their own classrooms. Featuring connections to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the text empowers teachers to infuse science into their classrooms by answering such questions as, “Where do I start?” and “How do I use the new standards?” SCIENCE STORIES contains comprehensive chapters on key science disciplinary core ideas, such as life science, physical science, and earth and space science, as well as a chapter that considers student assessment and self-assessment.
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SCIENCE STORIES helps preservice and inservice teachers contextualize what it looks like to engage their students in meaningful science experiences. Using narratives about science teaching and learning in real-world classrooms, this text demonstrates important content and strategies in action. Author Janice Koch's approach guides teachers in discovering and exploring their "scientific selves," enabling them to learn from students' experiences and become effective scientific explorers in their own classrooms. Featuring connections to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the text empowers teachers to infuse science into their classrooms by answering such questions as, “Where do I start?” and “How do I use the new standards?” SCIENCE STORIES contains comprehensive chapters on key science disciplinary core ideas, such as life science, physical science, and earth and space science, as well as a chapter that considers student assessment and self-assessment.
SCIENCE STORIES presents much of the book's theory and practical advice through its illustrations of students and teachers in grades K–8 actually doing science together. Connections to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are explored and thoroughly integrated throughout the text. The stories bring the standards to life. Explicit illustrations of teachers engaging students in engineering design illustrate the science and engineering practices of the NGSS.
Attention to environmental science stories and locally relevant science experiences (e.g., those concerning issues of conservation or sustainability) encourages young learners to think about the quality of their natural environment and the impact of human development on it.
SCIENCE STORIES addresses the theory and practice of science teaching through a clear and conversational voice that invites readers to (1) locate their own scientific selves and (2) engage their students in science and engineering practices that allow them to make sense of the natural world and apply that knowledge to other areas of thinking and learning.
No other science methods textbook offers this book's level of authentic illustration of how students learn science.
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Part 1. The Scientist Within
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