Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach - Softcover

Buxton, Cory A.; Provenzo, Eugene F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412924979 ISBN 13: 9781412924979

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Grounded in a social and historical context, this unique book encourages readers to think like scientists...

Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach offers pre-service and in-service elementary and middle school teachers of science practical strategies for the classroom as well as a better understanding of the role of science in our day-to-day lives and culture.

Key Features

• Prepares teachers with 100 key experiments that teach core, standards-based science concepts within a methods instruction model
• Provides an introduction to the historical, social, cultural, and linguistic construction of science in American culture―in particular, how it functions as a human endeavor
• Emphasizes the idea that science is connected to the world around us through reflection case studies
• Stresses the development of the basic principles underlying scientific methods of thought and inquiry
• Integrates standards in other content areas through "Theory Into Practice" boxes.
• Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
• Instructor′s Resources CD: Available by contacting SAGE, this CD offers PowerPoint® lecture slides, a teaching guide for the science standards-based lesson plan project, video clips of select experiments, Theory Into Practice resources, Reflections on Science assignments, Web resources, and a test bank.
• Student Resource CD: Bound into the back of the text, this CD provides students with video clips to illustrate select experiments from the text, as well as other key science concepts. A guide accompanies the video clips to assist student learning.
• Web-Based Student Study Site, http://www.sagepub.com/buxtonstudy: This site provides a variety of additional resources that will enhance students′ understanding of the book content and take their learning one step further.

About this title

About the Author:

Gene Provenzo is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the foundations of education. He holds the rank of full professor at the University of Miami. He has won numerous awards throughout his career in both teaching and research and sits on many editorial boards. He has authored over ten books and has contributed chapters to many more. He has authored scores of articles in a wide range of areas in education. His recent projects include Teaching, Learning, and Schooling (Allyn & Bacon, 2002), a critically-oriented introduction to the foundations of education textbook, and the forthcoming Readings in Educational Thought (SAGE, 2005).

Review:

Albuquerque Public Schools- Hoover Middle School  "
I love this book! I am teaching 7th grade life science and 8th grade physical science and without this book this journey would have been much more difficult. The labs the book has provided are awesome. With many other science books the materials they suggest using are impossible for a public school to acquire. The household items needed to perform most of these experiments make them much easy to demonstrate in the class. I love how the book has provided scientific explanation at the beginning of each set of labs. At the beginning of every unit I look at the experiment section and plan which ones we will be doing. Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School is a must for every science teacher!" Author: Britt Baiamonte Published On: 2007-04-12

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1412924979
• ISBN 13: 9781412924979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424