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Ready, Set, Science!: Putting Research to Work in K-8 Science Classrooms
What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators -teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, school administrators -need to know to create and support such experiences?
"Ready, Set, Science!" guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report "Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, " this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.
"Ready, Set, Science!" is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools.
This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone -including parents -directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.
"Ready, Set, Science!" guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report "Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, " this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.
"Ready, Set, Science!" is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools.
This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone -including parents -directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.
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197 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2007
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February 20, 2023
required text for my teaching science and engineering methods class! definitely a nice read, and great introduction for a beginner who is integrating science and inquiry based learning into the classroom. suprised how equity-based it was since it was written in 2008… lots of ideas about achievement gaps and MLLs which was very surprising! since it was a basic intro it left me with questions and curiosities but in a good way. so excited for the other required texts for this class!
July 12, 2024
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Solid frameworks to apply in elementary classrooms. The case studies were helpful to think about applications at different grade levels.
Solid frameworks to apply in elementary classrooms. The case studies were helpful to think about applications at different grade levels.
June 28, 2015
I agree with most of the research in this book. However it didn't give me any new ideas or strategies for teaching science. For those who are still teaching science as rote memorization of content, I hope it will be read and applied.
April 17, 2017
a great pedagogical book, about teaching Science in primary school and the first classes of high school. Many options are offered to the teacher and much more ideas are suggested. Recommended for teachers (or even parents)
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