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    Science stories : science methods for elementary and middle school teachers / Janice Koch.

    • 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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    • 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.
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