Teaching Science for Understanding: A Practical Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
""Teaching Science for Understanding, 1/e""
Written by the leading science educator in the country,
"Teaching Science for Understanding" challenges you to
transform your ideas about teaching from passive, direct learning
to active, inquiry learning. To do so, the author demonstrates
science teaching through three different levels of learning
activities:
building students' base of information
developing understanding
applying knowledge
Each chapter guides you through the type of planning and
instruction you will need to create a constructivist environment in
your classroom, providing you with specific activities and examples
to illustrate how you can teach science for understanding. Unique
Features: Science Reform-Identifies the four major elements of a
new vision for science education; science for all, teaching and
learning for understanding, a broader vision of science, and a
reduction of the amount of science content offered in middle and
secondary school teaching. Supporting these elements are Project
2061, Science for All Americans, National Science Standards and No
Child Left Behind. Active Learning-promotes students engaged in
constructing their own learning and assists teachers in knowing
their role in deciding when to withhold help, when to give help,
and what help to give. Instructional Model for Teaching Science for
Understanding-shares a design for planning objectives, ongoing
assessment and learning activities through a sample lesson on
photosynthesis. Excerpts from best-selling Middle School and
Secondary Textbooks and Teacher Guides-Appearing in Chapters 10-14,
explicit examples of textbook pages and teacher guides illustrate
how teachers canuse textbooks as enrichment, background knowledge
and resources as a "part" of teaching science for
understanding.
