Ambitious and encouraging, this text for prospective and practicing elementary and middle school science teachers, grounded in contemporary science education reform, is a valuable resource that supplies concrete approaches to support the science and science-integrated engineering learning of each and every student. At its core it is based in the view that science is its own a culture, consisting of unique thought process, specialized communicating traditions, and distinctive methods and tools. Using culture as a starting point and connecting it to effective instructional approaches, the...

Ambitious and encouraging, this text for prospective and practicing elementary and middle school science teachers, grounded in contemporary science education reform, is a valuable resource that supplies concrete approaches to support the science and science-integrated engineering learning of each and every student. At its core it is based in the view that science is its own a culture, consisting of unique thought process, specialized communicating traditions, and distinctive methods and tools. Using culture as a starting point and connecting it to effective instructional approaches, the...