Description
Taking science education beyond the classroom provides learning opportunities and experiences for students that just aren’t available within school walls, and Science Beyond the Classroom has a wealth of ideas on how to do it successfully. These carefully selected articles from the NSTA journals Science Scope and Science and Children were gathered into a compendium because of the value of informal science education in providing access to those experiences and in tapping into student interests.
Science Beyond the Classroom provides an overview of information and ideas—many of them include step-by-step, teacher-tested instructions and guidelines—that can be easily modified and adapted by teachers and others—scout leaders, club sponsors, parents, and home schoolers among them—who want to nurture enthusiasm for science. An introduc¬tion providing background and ideas for using the articles and a list of additional articles and web sites leads each of the five sections:
• Extending Science Learning Beyond the Curriculum: Projects and Challenges
• Extending Science Learning Beyond the School Building Walls: Using Local Sites
• Extending Science Learning Beyond the School Day: Clubs, Camps and Science Expositions
• Extending Science Learning to the Family: Take-Home Projects and Family Science Events
• Extending Science Learning to Informal Institutions: Museums, Zoos, and Other Field Trips
With its potential for engaging student interest, this book aims also at encouraging more students to enter academic fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Contents
1. Beyond the Curriculum: Projects and Challenges
Problem Solvers to the Rescue
Frances V. Figarella-Garcia, Lizzette M. Velazquez-Rivera, and Teresita Santiago-Rivera (April 2004, Science and Children)
S’Cool Science
Linda Bryson (May 2004, Science and Children)
Design Challenges Are ELL-ementary
Nancy Yocom de Romero, Pat Slater, and Carolyn DeCristofano
(Jan. 2006, Science and Children)
Every Feather Tells a Story
Debby Chessin and Laura Chessin (Sept. 2006, Science and Children)
Tracking Through the Tulips
Dorothy Davis (April 2005, Science and Children)
2. Beyond The School Building Walls: Using Local Sites
A Geometric Scavenger Hunt
Julie Smart and Jeff Marshall (Oct. 2007, Science and Children)
Urban bird-watching II
Barbara Rodenberg (Sept. 1999, Science Scope)
These Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words
Roberta Schempp (April 2001, Science Scope)
Science and History Come Alive in the Cemetery
Patricia K. Lowry and Judy H. McCrary (Nov. 2005, Science Scope)
Cemeteries as Science Labs
Linda M. Easley (Nov. 2005, Science Scope)
Snow Bank Detectives
Eric A. Olson, Audrey C. Rule, and Janet Dehm (Jan. 2005, Science and Children)
3. Beyond the School Day: Clubs and Science Expositions
What Makes for a Good Science Fair Project?
Bill Robertson (Dec. 2007, Science and Children)
Four Tools for Science Fair Success
Sherry Weaver Smith, Barbara Messmer, Bill Storm, and Cheryl Weaver (Dec. 2007, Science and Children)
A Revamped Science Expo
Lorna Barth (Dec. 2007, Science and Children)
Extending Science Learning Through Science Clubs
Pam Nazzoli (Oct.,1999, Science Scope)
Bitten by the Science Bug
Vicki Hymer (July 2005, Science and Children )
Girls in Science Rule!
Jan E. Moore (April 2003, Science and Children)
4. The Family: Take-Home Projects and Family Science Events
So, You Want to Host a Family Science Night?
Cynthia Lundeen (July 2005, Science and Children)
A Science Night of Fun!
Kathy Rommel-Esham and Andrea Castellitto (Jan. 2003, Science and Children)
Drop by Drop, Liter by Liter
Stephen J. Farenga, Beverly A. Joyce, and Daniel Ness (May 2004, Science Scope)
Breaking the Code: Examining Your Mail
Stephen J. Farenga, Beverly A. Joyce, and Daniel Ness (Jan. 2004, Science Scope)
Get Familiar With Fingerprints
(Jan. 2003, Science and Children)
Family Viewing
Patrisha J. Bronzell (Sept. 1999, Science Scope)
Museums as Inquiry Role Models
Stephen J. Farenga, Beverly A. Joyce, and Daniel Ness (Sept. 2003, Science Scope)
Capitalizing on Student Travel in Earth Science Classrooms
Andrew Gilbert (Jan. 2006, Science Scope)
5. Informal Institutions: Museums, Zoos, and Other Field Trips
Have a Safe Trip!
Juliana Texley (Jan. 2003, Science Scope)
More Than Just a Day Away From School
Michelle Scribner-Maclean and Lesley Kennedy (April 2007, Science Scope)
How to Plan, Survive and Even Enjoy an Overnight Field Trip with 200 Students
Valerie Giacalone (Jan. 2003, Science Scope)
The Wrap on Raptors
John T. Tanecredi (April 2002, Science Scope)
Welcome to the Congo
Alison Ormsby (April 2000, Science Scope)
Hot Spot at Yellowstone
Abby Dress (April/May 2005, Science Scope)