Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Study & Teaching

Informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), Connected Science presents a new approach to college science education for the 21st century. This interdisciplinary approach stresses integrative learning and pedagogies that engage students through open-ended inquiry, compelling real-world questions, and data-rich experiences. Faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions present case studies based on research in the classroom, offering insights into student learning goals and best practices in curriculum design. Synthetic chapters bring together themes from the case...

Target the science skills your students need... with this science teacher resource from Kendall Hunt Publishing Feature

• Integration of up-to-date technology - graphing calculators and Web site addresses
• Multiple forms of assessments; checklists, rating sheets and test item suggestions
• Chapters with objectives and new laboratory activities
• Strategies to help integrate student research skills into existing science curriculum
• Blackline duplicating masters of activities, tables, information charts and practice problems

"Students and...

From energy and water resources to natural disasters, and from changing climatic patterns to the evolution of the Earth s deep interior, geoscience research affects people s lives in many ways and on many levels. This book offers a stimulating cross-disciplinary perspective on the important relationship between geoscience research and outreach activities for schools and for the general public.
The contributors academics, research scientists, science educators and outreach program educators describe and evaluate outreach programs from around the world. A section entitled Field-based...

This book is about how students are taught the periodic table. It reviews aspects of the periodic table's development, using the history and philosophy of science. The teaching method presented in this book is ideal for teaching the subject in high school and at introductory university level.
Chemistry students taught in this new, experimental way are compared with those taught in the traditional way and the author describes how tests found more conceptual responses from the experimental group than the control group.
The historical aspects of importance to this teaching method are:...

ClassiQuest Science: Logic Stage Astronomy & Geoscience contains 36 weekly lessons with coordinated readings, lab experiments and activities for the classical student.

ClassiQuest provides a science curriculum that is logically ordered, skill based, language rich and historically correlated.

ClassiQuest is: Time saving - No hassle with lesson planning; steps and supplies are clearly outlined and thoroughly detailed. Adaptable - Organized on the classical paradigm; appropriate for many teaching methods and approaches; suitable for grades 5 through 8. Flexible - Handle sensitive topics...

Informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), Connected Science presents a new approach to college science education for the 21st century. This interdisciplinary approach stresses integrative learning and pedagogies that engage students through open-ended inquiry, compelling real-world questions, and data-rich experiences. Faculty from a variety of disciplines and institutions present case studies based on research in the classroom, offering insights into student learning goals and best practices in curriculum design. Synthetic chapters bring together themes from the case...