What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? "Ready, Set, Science!" guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade.Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. "Ready, Set, Science!" is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day.They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone including parents directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.
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What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences?
Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.
Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools.
This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone ’including parents ’directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.
Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.
Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools.
This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone ’including parents ’directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.
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Sarah Michaels and Steve Olson, National Research Council
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A fantastic book about HOW to teach science,
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This review is from: Ready, Set, SCIENCE!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms (Paperback)
This book is a set of guidelines about how to teach science, grades K-8, with a very clear discussion of goals (help students to think in terms of scientific theories, teach students to collect data, get students to reflect on scientific principles, and get all students to participate) with many examples of lessons. The goal of the book is to make the results of a National Research Council study on science teaching accessible for teachers. The book is clear and easy to ready, with sample lessons, and useful discussions. What makes the book especially valuable is that the discussion of student thought processes applies well to ALL grades from K to 12! For both new and experienced teachers struggling with how to help students understand basic concepts in science, this book is enormously helpful, and easy reading. Even though the examples feature activities for grades K-8, the authors discuss issues relating to helping students learn to think about matter in terms of particles acting on an atomic scale, and also about evolution. This book would be a valuable tool for any secondary science teacher.
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Has great case studies that really set the bar high. Also, I like how it builds on previous studies, but brings fresh perspectives. I really like how they deal with "children's misconceptions" as something positive and a step towards building understanding of the world.
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Intro to Elementary Science in a Nutshell,
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This book flies through current research with interesting classroom case studies. Dialogue between teachers and students are shared illustrating how theory is put into practice. Each chapter is roughly 20-30 pages long of readable, engaging material that provides an introductory view of elementary science education. It is not a comprehensive text and would not be suitable as a stand-alone textbook for a course without supplementary reading material.
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