Science Teaching

Students often think that science is a boring and difficult subject with no relevance to their every day lifes. 100 Ideas for Teaching Science contains creative ideas on putting the 'wow' factor back into science lessons and for showing kids how relevant science is.

The working model for helping the learner to learn presented in this work should be relevant to any teaching context, but the focus here is on teaching in secondary and college science classrooms. Specifically, the goals of the text are to: help secondary- and college-level science faculty examine and redefine their roles in the classroom; define for science teachers a framework for thinking about active learning and the creation of an active learning environment; and provide them with the assistance they need to begin building successful active learning environments in their classrooms. The volume is motivated by fundamental changes in education in response to perceptions that students are not adequately acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to meet current educational and economic goals. The premise of the volume is that active learning offers a highly effective approach to meeting the mandate for increased student knowledge, skills and performance. It should be a useful resource for all teacher trainers in science education and high school and college science teachers.

This book specifies the foundation for Adapted Primary Literature (APL), a novel text genre that enables the learning and teaching of science using research articles that were adapted to the knowledge level of high-school students. More than 50 years ago, J.J. Schwab suggested that Primary Scientific Articles "afford the most authentic, unretouched specimens of enquiry that we can obtain" and raised for the first time the idea that such articles can be used for "enquiry into enquiry". This book, the first to be published on this topic, presents the realization of this vision and shows how the reading and writing of scientific articles can be used for inquiry learning and teaching. It provides the origins and theory of APL and examines the concept and its importance. It outlines a detailed description of creating and using APL and provides examples for the use of the enactment of APL in classes, as well as descriptions of possible future prospects for the implementation of APL. Altogether, the book lays the foundations for the use of this authentic text genre for the learning and teaching of science in secondary schools.

Discover winning inquiry-based strategies for teaching science in diverse classrooms using robotics, rockets, straw-bale greenhouses, expeditionary learning, independent research study, technology and music, and much more!

 Because motivation is the key to scientific literacy Within every science classroom there are students waiting to be inspired. All these students need is the right motivation. That's exactly what this one-of-a kind guide will help you provide. And along the way, you'll quickly learn that the motivational tools that are most effective with adolescent boys don't always work with adolescent girls--and vice versa. Part book, part website, this resource * Details research-proven motivational constructs specific to science * Addresses gender differences that influence motivation * Describes how to make science learning relevant and enjoyable * Builds confidence, especially among girls * Offers motivational strategies that are consistent with the NGSS

Within the next few years, compositionists can expect the pedagogical borders between first-year composition and basic writing to continue to blur as we attend to students currently on the margins of mainstream academia. Our students will be older, poorer, female, minority, and immigrant; and we must be prepared to experiment with pedagogy that will serve them. This important new book was written to assist with that process. Attending to the Margins crosses regional, institutional, gender, rank, and racial lines, providing new insight into how best to teach traditionally excluded students. The essays are grounded in ethnographic, quantitative, case-study, and text-based research that reflects the perspectives of front-line practitioners in the field and their interpretations of methodological diversity in composition studies. Some of the topics covered include: orality/literacy, bilingualism, bidialectalism, linguistic prejudice and shame, technological literacy, and ethics of disclosure. As one of the few sociolinguistically-informed, research-based anthologies in composition, Attending to the Margins demonstrates the most current applications of method and theory. Graduate-level students, writing instructors, writing program administrators, and writing center directors will all find the book essential reading.