Contents
PREFACE
There’s More to Teaching Science
Doug Ronsberg (Science and Children, Sept 2006)
INTRODUCTION
Inquiring Minds Do Want to Know
(Science and Children, Feb 2007)
Section 1: The Nature of Science and Science Inquiry
A Literature-Circles Approach to Understanding Science as a Human Endeavor
By William Straits (Science Scope, Oct 2007)
Light Students Interest in the Nature of Science
By Joanne K. Olson (Science Scope, Sept 2003)
Did You Really Prove It?
By Carolyn Reeves and Debby Chessin (Science Scope, Sept 2003)
An Inquiry Primer
By Alan Colburn (Science Scope, March 2000)
Inquiry Made Easy
By Wendy Pierce (May 2001)
Blow-by-Blow Inquiry
By Cathy A Wittrock and Lloyd H. Barrow (Feb 2000)
Why Do We Classify Things in Science?
By Bill Robertson (Science and Children, Jan 2008)
Section 2: Teaching Science
Learner-Centered
Teaching for Conceptual Change in Space Science
By Eric Brunsell and Jason Marcks (Science Scope, Summer 2007)
Egg Bungee Jump
By Thomas Tretter, (Science Scope, 2005)
Science Homework Overhaul
By Michelle Trueworthy (Science and Children, Dec 2006)
Investigating Students' Ideas About Plate Tectonics
By Brent Ford and Melanie Taylor, (Science Scope, Sept 2006)
More Than Just a Day Away From School
Michelle Scribner-McLean (Science Scope, April/May 2000)
Knowledge-Centered
Explaining Science
By Mark J. Gagnon and Sandra K. Abell, (Science and Children, Jan 2008)
The Station Approach: How to Teach with Limited Resources
By Denise Jaques Jones (Science Scope, Feb 2007)
How Do You Know That?
By Jennifer Folsom, Catherine Hunt, Maria Cavicchio, Anne Schoenemann, and Matthew D’Amato (Science and Children, Jan 2007)
Plants and Pollution
Eric Brunsell and J. William Hug (Science and Children, April/May 2007)
Rock Solid Science
Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan (Science and Children, Dec 2006)
“Inquirize” Your Teaching
Susan Everett and Richard Moyer, (Science and Children, Mar 2007)
Embracing Controversy in the Classroom
Kelly Cannard (Science Scope, Summer 2005)
Assessment-Centered
Embed Assessment in Your Teaching
By David F. Treagust, Roberta Jacobowitz, James J. Gallaher, and Joyce Parker
(Science Scope, March 2003)
Seamless Assessment
By Mark J. Volkmann and Sandra K. Abell (Science and Children, May 2003)
Using Interactive Science Notebooks for Inquiry-Based Science
By Robert Chesbro (Science Scope, April/May 2006)
Formative Assessment Probes
Francis Eberle and Page Keeley, (Science and Children, Jan 2008)
Assessing Scientific Inquiry
By Erin Peters (Science Scope, Jan 2008)
Cartoons—An Alternative Learning Assessment
By Youngjin Song, Misoook Heo, Larry Krumenaker, and Deborah Tippins
(Science Scope, Jan 2008)
Community-Centered
Making Time for Science Talk
By Mark J. Gagnon and Sandra K. Abell, (Science and Children, April/May 2007)
Evidence Helps the KWL Get a KLEW
By Kimber Hershberger, Carla Zembal-Saul, and Mary L. Starr (Science and Children, Feb 2006)
Questioning Cycle
By Erin Marie Furtak and Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo (Science Scope, 2005)
Thinking About Student Questions
By Jaclyn Turner (Science Scope, Nov 2006)
The Eight-Step Method to Great Group Work
By Sally Steward and C. Jill Swango (Science Scope, April 2004)
Section 3: Science for All
Cultural Diversity in the Science Classroom
By Patrick Brown and Sandra K. Abel (Science and Children, Summer 2007)
Capitalizing on Diversity
By Lenola Allen-Sommerville (The Science Teacher, Feb 1996)
Supporting English Language Learners’ Reading in the Science Classroom
By Greg Corder (Science Scope, Sept. 2007)
Science Success for Students with Special Needs
By Marcee M. Steele (Science and Children, October 2007)
Section 4: Science Teaching Toolbox
Reading and Writing Strategies in Science
Erupting with Great Force: Reforming Text to Enhance Reading Comprehension
By Ann Bullion-Mears, JoyceMcCauley, and J. YeVetteMcWhorter
(Science Scope, Sept 2007)
Developing Strategic Readers
By Jennifer Jones and Susie Leahy (Science and Children, Nov 2006)
14 Writing Strategies
By Thomas Turner and Amy Broemmel (Science Scope, Sept 2006)
Science the “Write” Way
Valarie L. Akerson and Terrell A.Young (Science and Children, Nov/Dec 2005)
Integrating Other Disciplines
Connecting With Other Disciplines
By Meredith A. Park Rogers and Sandra K. Abell
(Science and Children, Feb 2007)
Art & Science Grow Together
By Pat Stellflue, Marie Allen, and D. Timothy Gerber (Science and Children, Sept 2005)
En”Light”ening Geometry for Middle School Students
By Julie LaConte (Science Scope, Dec 2007)
A Blended Neighborhood
By Chirs Ohana and Kent Ryan (Science and Children, Apr 2003)
Integrating Technology
Cell City WebQuest
By Clay Rassmussen, AmyResler, and Audra Rassmussen
(Science Scope, Jan 2008)
Using Web-Based Simulations to Promote Inquiry
By Mel Limson, Crystal Witzlib, and Robert A. Desharnais (Science Scope, Feb 2007)
Making “Photo” Graphs
By Julianne Doto and Susan Golbek (Science and Children, Oct 2007)
Learning with Loggerheads
By Christine Lener and Theodora Pinou (Science and Children, Sep 2007)
Up to the Minute Meteorology
By Mervyn J. Wighting, Robert A. Lucking, and Edwin P. Christmann
(Science Scope, Feb 2004)
Teaching Science to Young Children
What’s the Matter
By Susan Barcus and Mary M. Patton (Science and Children, Sept 1996)
Discovery Central
By Jaimee Wood (Science and Children, Apr. 2005)
It’s a Frog’s Life
By Audrey Coffey and Donna R. Sterling (Science and Children, Sept. 2003)
The Science and Mathematics of Building Structures
By Ingrid Chalufour, Cindy Hoisington, Robin Moriarty, Jeff Winokur, and Karen Worth
(Science and Children, Jan 2004)
Section 5: Teaching Science Content
Quick-Reference Chart of Articles and Standards
Content Standard B: Physical Science
Film Canister Science
By Andre Ferstl and Jamie L. Schneider (The Science Teacher, Jan 2007)
Breaking the Sound Barrier
By Tom Brown and Kim Boehringer (Science and Children, Jan 2007)
What’s Hot? What’s Not?
By Sandy Buczynski (Science and Children, Oct 2006)
Circus of Light
By Juanita Jo Matkins and Jacqueline McDonnough (Science and Children, Feb 2004)
Building Student Mental Constructs of Particle Theory
By Erin Peters (Science Scope, Oct 2006)
You Can Always Tell a Dancer by Her Feet
By Joan Lindgren and Marcia Cushall (Science Scope, Jan 2001)
Content Standard C: Life Science
Trash or Treasure
By Donna Kowalczyk (Science and Children, April/May 2007)
Inquiring Into the Digestive System
By Carlos Schroeder (Science Scope, Nov 2007)
Beak Adaptations
By Frank W. Guerrierie (Science Scope, Jan 1999)
Choice, Control and Change
By Pamela Koch, Angela Calabrese Barton, Rabi Whitaker, and Isobel Contento
(Science Scope, Nov 2007)
Are There Really Tree Frogs Living in the Schoolyard?
By Brooke L. Talley and Melissa A. Henkel (Science Scope, April/May 2007)
The Alien Lab: A Study in Genetics
By Nancy Cowdin (Science Scope, Oct 2002)
Content Standard D: Earth / Space Science
Light Foundations
By Peggy Ashbrook (Science and Children, Jan 2007)
They’re M-e-e-elting!
By Samuel R. Bugg IV, Juanita Constible, Marianne Kaput, and Rochard E. Lee Jr.
(Science Scope, Jan 2007)
The Dimensions of the Solar System
By Stephen E. Schneider and Kathleen S. Davis (Science Scope, Summer 2007)
CONCLUSION
Forces at Work
By Christine Anne Royce and Judi Hechtman (Science Scope, Mar 2001)
APPENDIX 1
APPENDIX 2 (SAFER SCIENCE)