Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Science & Technology

Coteaching is two or more teachers teaching together, sharing responsibility for meeting the learning needs of students and, at the same time, learning from each other. Working as collaborators on every aspect of instruction, coteachers plan, teach and evaluate lessons together. Over the past decade, because coteaching can be highly beneficial to both students and teachers it has become an increasingly important element of science teacher education and is expanding into other content areas and educational settings. This edited book brings together ten years' work on the research and the...

Attainment of a research doctorate is a pinnacle of academic achievement. In any national system, the PhD demonstrates the ability to produce original, significant and important knowledge in a specialised field. Its attainment signifies the capacity to produce and reproduce knowledge at the most advanced level.

Advice about how to achieve a PhD usually falls short of relevance because the ways of creating and reporting knowledge differ dramatically from one disciplinary field and specialisation to another. Yet supervisors and doctoral candidates alike know that there are...

What makes a Bic click? Why do squirt guns squirt? And how do pop-up thermometers know it's time to pop? Using this compilation of "Everyday Engineering" columns from NSTA's award-winning journal Science Scope, engage middle-schoolers in hands-on investigations of the science and engineering behind objects they probably take for granted. The collection consists of 14 activities. Each includes a clear explanation of the science and history behind an item's development plus a materials list, student data sheets, and safety suggestions. The collection is intended to be useful to classroom...

What was your favourite book as a child? In more than 10 years of facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, My fourth-grade science textbook. Clearly, textbooks have an important place in the science classroom, but using trade books to supplement a textbook can greatly enrich students experience. from Teaching Science Through Trade Books If you like the popular Teaching Science Through Trade Books columns in NSTA s journal Science and Children, or if you've become enamoured of the award-winning Picture-Perfect Science Lessons series, you ll love this new collection. It s...