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Exemplary Science in Grades 5-8: Standards-Based Success Stories (e-book)


Edited by: Robet E. Yager
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Type of Product:e-book (our e-books are in PDF format and can be viewed on your computer or any compatible reading device) (also see print version of this book)
Publication Date:5/18/2009
Pages:237
Stock Number:PB192X2e
ISBN:978-1-935155-64-5
Grade Level:Elementary School, Middle School


Description

Do the Standards really matter in middle school? Nine years after the National Science Education Standards’ release, just how well do science teachers in grades 5 to 8 actually use them to plan content, define improved teaching, and assess real learning? Find out the answers to these key questions in this groundbreaking collection of 15 essays by teachers, researchers, and professors whose specialty is middle school. Nine years after the release of the Standards, these educators describe what they’re doing to achieve the visions for the reform of teaching, assessment, professional development, and content. All the visions correspond to the Less Emphasis and More Emphasis conditions that conclude each section of the Standards, characterizing what most teachers and programs should do less of as well as describing the changes needed if real reform is to occur.

Among this collection’s wide-ranging essay topics: “Teaching Science With Student Thinking in Mind,” “The Relationship Between a Professional Development Model and Student Achievement,” “Creating a Classroom Culture of Scientific Practices,” “Traveling the Inquiry Continuum: Learning Through Teacher Action Research,” “What Do We Get to Do Today? The Middle School Full Option Science System Program,” and “Teach Them to Fish.” This volume is the third in NSTA Press’s Exemplary Science monograph series, which provides the results of an unprecedented national search to assess how well the Standards’ vision has been realized.


Additional Info

Intended User Role:Administrator, Curriculum Supervisor, Elementary-Level Educator, Middle-Level Educator, New Teacher, Professional Development Provider, Teacher
Educational Issues:Achievement, Assessment of students, Classroom management, Curriculum, Educational research, Inquiry learning, Instructional materials, Learning theory, Professional development, Teacher content knowledge, Teacher preparation, Teaching strategies

Contents

Introduction:
Implementing the Changes in Middle School Programs Envisioned in the National Science Education Standards: Where Are We Nine Years Later?
Robert E. Yager

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Teaching Science With Student Thinking in Mind
Jacqueline Grennon Brooks

Chapter 2 Do You See What I See? The Relationship Between a Professional Development Model and Student Achievement
Charlene M. Czerniak, Svetlana Beltyukova, Janet Struble, Jodi J. Haney, and Andrew T. Lumpe

Chapter 3 Teaching Science With Pictures
Barbara Kay Foots

Chapter 4 Finding Out What… and How They Know
Margaret Foss, Mary Reescano, and Karl Spencer

Chapter 5 Teach Them to Fish
Hector Ibarra

Chapter 6 Creating a Classroom Culture of Scientific Practices
Joseph S. Krajcik, Ann M. Novak, Chris Gleason, and Jay Mahoney

Chapter 7 More Emphasis on Scientific Explanation: Developing Conceptual Understanding and Science Literacy
Joseph S. Krajcik, Elizabeth Birr Moje, LeeAnn M. Sutherland, Alycia Meriweather, Sheryl Rucker, Paula Sarratt, and Yulonda Hines-Hale

Chapter 8 Traveling the Inquiry Continuum: Learning Through Teacher Action Research
Alyssia Martinez-Wilkinson

Chapter 9 Modeling: Naturally Selecting an Effective Teaching Method
Karen Mesmer

Chapter 10 Unlocking the National Science Education Standards with IMaST
Marilyn K. Morey, Richard E. Satchwell Franzie L. Loepp, Tracy Hornyak and Jim Pilla

Chapter 11 Achieving a Vision of Inquiry: Rigorous, Engaging Curriculum and Instruction
Barbara Nagle, Manisha Hariani, and Marcelle Siegel

Chapter 12 Adapting the JASON Project: Real Science. Real Time. Real Learning.
Warren Phillips

Chapter 13 “Re-Inventing” Science Instruction: Inquiry-Based Instruction in a Fifth/Sixth-Grade Classroom
Melissa Rooney and Deborah L. Hanuscin

Chapter 14 What Do We Get to Do Today? The Middle School Full Option Science System Program
Terry Shaw

Chapter 15 ARIES: Science as Discovery… and Discovery as Science!
R. Bruce Ward, Janice Catledge, and Kathy Price

Chapter 16 Successes and Continuing Challenges: Meeting the NSES Visions for Improving Science in Middle Schools
Robert E. Yager

Appendix 1 Less Emphasis/More Emphasis Recommendations From the National Science Education Standards

Appendix 2 Contributors List

Index


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