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• Title:Science stories : science methods for elementary and middle school teachers / Janice Koch.
  
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• Author/Creator:Koch, Janice, 1947- author.
  
• Published/Created:Boston, MA : Cengage Learning, [2018]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB1585.3 .K63 2018
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.
  Science--Study and teaching (Middle school)--United States.
  
• Edition:Sixth edition, Student edition.
  
• Description:xxix, 347 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
  
• Notes:Including bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781305960725 paperback
  1305960726 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Scientist Within
  1. Science Teaching and You: Locating Your Scientific Self
  1-1. Invitation to Teaching Science
  1-1a. Scientist Within
  1-2. What Is Science, and Why Teach It?
  1-2a. Science as a Set of Practices, a Set of Ideas, and a Way of Thinking about the World
  Doing Science: A Set of Practices
  Set of Ideas
  Way of Thinking about the World
  1-2b. Value of Teaching Science
  1-2c. Teaching Science and the STEM Education Movement
  1-2d. Teacher Makes a Difference
  1-3. How Do Students Learn Science?
  1-3a. Key Tenets of Constructivist Theory
  Piaget and Bruner
  Vygotsky and the Social Context
  Learning Theory, Big Ideas, and Metacognition
  1-3b. Implications for Teaching
  Concrete Experiences
  Meaningful Experiences
  Science Story: Listening to Students' Ideas
  Contents
  Listening and Mediating
  Teaching Science for Understanding
  Learning Cycle
  Students' "Misconceptions"
  This Book's Approach
  1-4. Diversity of Science Students
  1-4a. Questions to Ask about Your Students
  1-4b. Connecting Science to All Students
  Differentiating Instruction
  Engaging Your Students
  1-5. Role of Technology in Today's Science Teaching
  1-5a. Simulations and Interactive Websites
  1-5b. Tools for Expression
  1-5c. Means of Collaboration
  1-6. Locating Your Scientific Self
  Science Story: Science Story
  1-7. Thinking Scientifically
  1-8. Beliefs about Science: We Teach Who We Are
  1-8a. Your Feelings Show
  1-8b. Teacher Attitudes Affect Students' Attitudes
  1-9. Who Is a Scientist? Stereotype versus Reality
  1-9a. Drawing a Scientist
  Third Graders Draw Scientists
  Stereotypes Can Be Discouraging
  Reflecting on Your Drawing
  1-10. Your Science Autobiography
  1-10a. Writing Your Science Autobiography
  1-11. Keeping a Science Journal
  1-11a. How Do I Keep a Science Journal?
  1-11b. Bird Story: Sample Entries from a Science Journal
  1-11c. Some Guidelines for Your Own Science Journal
  1-1d. Your Inner Scientist
  1-12. Becoming a Science Teacher
  Resources
  pt. 2 Doing Science with Students: Inquiry in Practice
  2. Teachers and Students as Science Learners
  2-1. Making Meaning: A Personal Story
  Science Story: The Bottle and the Balloon
  2-1a. Helping Students to Make Meaning
  2-1b. Prior Knowledge
  2-1c. Valuing the Students' Thinking
  2-2. Facilitating Students' Learning
  2-2a. Alternative Conceptions
  2-2b. Scaffolding
  2-3. Teacher as Mediator
  Science Story: Icicles
  Science Concepts: Mass and Weight
  2-4. Social Context of Teaching and Learning Science: Alternative Conceptions
  2-5. Concept Maps and Learning Science
  Science Story: The "Skin" of Water
  2-6. Students as Knowers
  3. Engaging Students in Science and Engineering Practices
  3-1. Science and Engineering Practices: Using Multistation Activities
  3-2. Science Notebooks
  Professional Resource Download: Figure 3.1: A suggested structure for students' science notebooks for the multistation "science circus" activity
  3-3. Science Activity "Circus"
  Science Story: The Science Activity Circus Comes to Mount Holly
  Science Concepts: Effect of Temperature on Liquids
  3-4. Technology Extends Our Senses
  3-4a. Real-Time Data Collection Software
  3-4b. Using Video to Extend Observations
  3-5. Science in the Classroom and with the Family
  3-5a. Family Science Night
  4. Scientific Explorations Inside and Outside the Classroom
  4-1. Two Types of Science Curricula
  4-2. Importance of Experiences with Nature
  4-2a. Diversity Within and Without
  4-3. Seeing the Larger Picture: Content Plus Context
  4-4. Making Observations of Local Trees: Understanding Common Ancestry
  Science Story: Studying Street Trees
  Professional Resource Download: Figure 4.2: A guide for students to record their observations
  4-5. Scientific Data as Evidence
  Science Story: Ecology Disrupted
  4-6. Field Trips
  4-6a. Tips for Outdoor Science Experiences
  Science Story: Making Connections, Inside and Outside the Classroom
  4-7. Science Centers: Bringing the Outside Inside the Classroom
  4-7a. Making the Science Center an Interactive Experience
  Designing the Science Center with Your Students
  Questions and Activities
  4-7b. Sample Science Centers from Around the Country
  Third-Grade Science Center in the Northeast
  Second-Grade Science Center in the Northwest
  First-Grade Science Center in the Midwest
  Third-Grade Science Center in the Autumn
  Second-Grade Science Center
  Third-Grade Science Center
  Sixth-Grade Green Science Center
  4-8. Daily Life of the Classroom
  5. Exploring Matter: Scientific Observations of Everyday Materials
  5-1. Exploring Matter: Scientific Observations of Everyday Materials
  Science Story: Third Graders Describe Properties of Matter
  5-2. Explorations at Science Stations
  Science Story: Exploring Solids, Liquids, and Gases
  5-3. Finding the Right Grouping Is Sometimes Challenging
  Science Story: Mysterious Matter
  5-4. If It's So Messy, Can It Be Science?
  Science Concepts: Matter and Energy
  5-4a. Messiness in the Classroom
  5-4b. Keeping It Complex
  6. Plants and Animals and Extended Investigations
  6-1. What Does It Mean to Be Alive?
  Science Story: What Makes a Rabbit Real?
  6-2. Plants and Animals in Your Science Center
  6-3. From Seed to Plant
  Science Story: A Failed Experiment
  Science Story: What's Inside a Seed?
  6-4. Studying Plant Life Cycles in Nature
  Science Story: Planting in a Vacant Lot
  6-4a. Plant Parts and Plant Function
  Science Story: When Is a Vegetable a Fruit?
  6-5. Classroom Invertebrate
  6-5a. Observing and Investigating Earthworms
  Science Story: Learning about Earthworms
  6-56. Working Together to Conduct Investigations over Time
  7. Physical Science Explorations: Density and Its Implications
  7-1. Floating and Sinking Experiences with Young Students
  Science Story: Floating and Sinking Fruits
  7-2. Older Students Explore the Differing Density of Liquids
  Science Story: Looking at Liquids
  7-3. Design Challenge of Building Science Toys
  Science Story: The Next Day: Building Science Toys to Illustrate Density: A Design Challenge
  7-4. Levels of Understanding: A Further Exploration
  Science Story: Delving Deeper Into Sinking and Floating
  7-5. Extending Curriculum: Taking Advantage of Emerging Relevance
  7-6. Looking Ahead at Deepening Levels of Understanding
  7-7. Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
  Science Story: Apples, Potatoes, and Density
  Science Concepts: Measuring Water Displacement
  7-7a. Deepening of Understandings
  8. Using Models and Engineering Design for Teaching and Learning Science
  8-1. Usefulness of Models
  8-1a. What Do We Mean by a Model?
  8-2. Edible Solar System
  Science Story: An Edible Solar System
  8-3. From Models to Meaning
  Science Story: Making a Model of a Planetary Orbit
  8-4. Shapes of the Moon
  Science Story: Shapes of the Moon
  8-4a. Using Moon-Phase Journals
  8-5. Making Models with Engineering Design
  Science Story: Making Models of Atoms
  Professional Resource Download: Figure 8.4: Cover sheet for the Atom Design Challenge
  8-6. Engineering Design Technology
  8-6a. Design Portfolios
  9. Beyond the "Science Kit"
  9-1. Electricity Kit
  Science Story: Using the Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires Kit
  9-2. Electricity Kit
  -Revisited
  Science Story: Revisiting the Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires Kit
  9-3. Applying What They Learned
  Science Story: The Next Day: Lighting a Shoebox House
  9-4. Thinking about Teaching and Learning: Science PCK
  9-4a. Learning Cycle Revisited
  pt. 3 Creating the Science Experience in Your Classroom
  10. Content and Curriculum: Science Concepts and Your Scientific Self
  10-1. Making New Concepts Your Own
  10-2. Organizing the Science Curriculum
  10-3. Systems
  10-4. Solar System
  10-4a. Sun and the Planets
  10-4b. Smaller Objects in the Solar System
  10-4c. Gravity and Inertia: Governing Principles of the Solar System
  Thinking About Systems: The Interconnection of Parts
  10-5. Human Body Systems
  10-5a. Digestive System
  10-5b. Circulatory System
  10-5c. Respiratory System
  10-5d. Nervous System
  Science Concepts: How Do We Breathe?
  Thinking About Systems: Noticing Similarities and Differences
  10-6. Simple Machines
  10-6a. Lever
  10-6b. Wheel and Axle
  10-6c. Pulley
  10-6d. Inclined Plane
  10-6e. Wedge
  10-6f. Screw
  10-6g. Compound Machines and Gears
  Thinking About Systems: Simple Machines as Systems
  10-7. Earth as a Super-System
  10-7a. Earth's System and Green Science
  10-7b. Energy and Matter in the Earth's System
  10-8. Interactions and Patterns of Change
  10-8a. Heat Energy and Matter
  10-8b. Water
  10-8c. Sugar
  10-8d. Bottles and Balloons
  10-8e. Sources of Heat Energy
  10-9. Heat Energy on the Move
  Thinking About Interactions: Chemical and Physical Changes
  Thinking About Interactions: Links between Interactions and Systems
  10-10. Electricity
  10-10a. Structure of Matter and the Electron
  10-10b. Static and Current Electricity
  10-Wc. Energy Transformations and Generators
  10-11. Light
  10-11a. Sources of Light
  Contents note continued: 10-11b. Light Energy and Matter
  Thinking About Interactions: Making Connections: From Electricity to Heat and Light
  10-11. Color
  10-12. Sound
  10-12a. Speed of Sound
  10-12b. Characteristics of Sound
  10-12c. Human Voice
  Thinking About Interactions: Sound Energy and Musical Instruments
  10-13. Magnetism
  10-13a. Electromagnets
  10-13b. What Causes Magnetism?
  10-13c. Earth as a Magnet
  10-14. From Content to Curriculum
  10-15. Who Creates the Curriculum? National Influence and Local Control
  10-15a. STEM Education Movement
  10-15b. STEM and Group Projects
  10-15c. Impact of STEM
  10-16. Developing Curriculum Units
  10-16a. Aligning a Unit of Study with the NGSS
  10-16b. Selecting Activities
  10-16c. What Is Missing?
  10-16d. Checklist for the Science Curriculum
  11. Surrounded by Science: Science Connections Across Disciplines
  11-1. Importance of Interdisciplinary Connections
  11-2. Making Meaning with Dialog Poems
  11-3. Mathematics, Measuring, and Meaning Making
  Science Story: How Much Milk Are We Wasting?
  11-4. Science and Engineering Design in a Second-Grade Class
  Science Story: An Exploration of Magnets and Forces
  11-5. Making the Science and Art History Connection
  Science Story: Is She or Is She Not a Leonardo?
  11-6. STEM Education and More
  12. Planning for Science: Instructional Strategies
  12-1. Encouraging Underrepresented Students in Science
  12-2. Teaching Science to English Language Learners (ELLs)
  12-3. Activity Is Not a Lesson
  12-4. Planning the Lesson
  12-5. Planning Guide
  12-5a. Goals
  Professional Resource Download: A Guide for Making a Science Lesson Plan
  12-5D. Disciplinary Core Ideas
  12-5c. Engage
  12-5d. Explore
  12-5e. Explain
  12-5f. Elaborate
  12-5g. Evaluate
  12-5h. If I Know It, Do I Have to Write It?
  12-5i. Time Allotment
  12-6. After the Planning, the Letting Go!
  12-7. Role of Questioning
  12-7a. Types of Questions
  12-7b. Questions That Invite Students to Action
  12-7c. Questions That Access Students' Own Ideas and Prior Knowledge
  12-7d. Questions That Check for Understanding
  12-7e. Don't Rush: A Word about Wait Time
  12-8. Science Learning Groups: Creating an Environment for Team Work
  12-8a. Learning Groups
  12-8b. Small-Group Learning Works
  12-8c. Cooperative Learning and Reflection
  12-8d. Learning in a Social Context
  12-8e. Cultural Diversity and Gender in Cooperative Learning
  12-8f. Scientific Investigation and Group Learning
  12-9. Structuring Cooperative Learning Groups in Your Classroom
  12-9a. Assigning Students to Groups
  12-9b. Assigning Group Roles
  12-9c. Facilitating Group Learning
  12-9d. Cooperative Groups across the Globe
  12-10. Inclusive Science Education
  12-10a. Science and the Inclusion Model
  12-10b. Classroom Strategies for Doing Science with Students with Disabilities
  Motor/Orthopedic Disabilities
  Visual Impairments
  Professional Resource Download: Classroom Survey: How Accessible Is Your Classroom?
  Hearing Impairments
  Learning Disabilities
  Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  12-11. Technology to Foster the Success of Students with Disabilities
  12-12. Questions for Your Own Reflection
  13. What's the Big Idea? Assessing for Understanding
  13-1. Assessment and Testing
  13-2. Formative, Summative, and Performance Assessments
  13-3. Assessment and the Instructional Context
  13-4. Science Notebooks and Assessment
  13-4a. Sample Structure for a Science Notebook
  13-4b. Pictures and Telling Stories
  13-4c. Assessing Student Notebooks
  Professional Resource Download: Checklist for Assessing Science Notebooks
  13-5. Other Types of Writing Assignments
  13-5a. Middle Schoolers Blog about Organelles
  13-6. Using Science Conversations for Assessment
  13-7. Using Technology to Assess Understanding
  13-7a. Concept Maps
  73-7b. Electronic Presentations
  13-8. Multiple Types of Performances
  13-8a. Third Graders Enact the Water Cycle
  13-80. Second Graders Do a Station Assessment for a Unit on Matter
  Professional Resource Download: Figure 13.2: Sample checklist and scoring rubric for a station assessment
  13-9. Assessing, Teaching, and Learning
  14. Pulling it All Together
  14-1. Your Scientific Self
  14-2. Developing a Personal Philosophy
  14-3. Professional Development
  14-3a. Networking in the Profession
  74-3b. Promotion and Certification Requirements
  74-3c. Further Means of Professional Development
  Professional Resource Download: A Checklist for Self-evaluation
  14-4. How Am I Doing? A Guide to Self-Evaluation
  14-5. Looking Back to Look Ahead: A New Chapter in Your Science Autobiography.