SCIENCE STORIES helps you get in touch with your "scientific self" and become empowered to teach science in your own classrooms. This book's unique approach uses stories of science in real-world classrooms to demonstrate important science content and strategies in action. Following each story, you'll have the opportunity to reflect on the connections to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and to the teaching and disciplinary ideas behind the story. This approach makes the stories' instructional value explicit. Author Janice Koch helps you feel comfortable with the prospect of teaching science and encourages you in the discovery and exploration of life, physical, and earth and space sciences. Through a warm and inviting narrative style, the author also fosters an appreciation for engineering design and for science and engineering practices.
1. Science Teaching and You: Locating Your Scientific Self.
2. Teachers and Students as Science Learners.
3. Engaging Students in Scientific and Engineering Practices.
4. Scientific Explorations Inside and Outside the Classroom.
5. Exploring Matter: Scientific Observations of Everyday Materials.
6. Plants and Animals and Extended Investigations.
7. Physical Science Explorations: Density and Its Implications.
8. Using Models and Engineering Design for Teaching and Learning Science.
9. Beyond the "Science Kit".
10. Content and Curriculum: Science Concepts and Your Scientific Self.
11. Surrounded by Science: Science Connections Across Disciplines.
12. Creating the Science Experience in Your Classroom: Planning and Letting Go.
13. What's the Big Idea? Matching Assessment to Instruction.
14. Pulling It All Together.
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Janice Koch
Janice Koch is Professor Emeritus of Science Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. She developed and taught science education courses to elementary, middle, and secondary pre-and in-service teachers. Additionally, she taught courses addressing: Introduction to Education, Action Research, Qualitative Research, and Gender Issues in the classroom. Dr. Koch shares her passion for teaching and learning through presentations as well as through her introduction to education text TEACH, 3rd Edition (2016, Cengage Learning). Her acclaimed textbook SCIENCE STORIES has been used by thousands of pre-service and in-service educators interested in creating meaningful science experiences for their students. She and her husband currently reside in Central Maryland, where she consults on education projects across the country and internationally and evaluates grant funded science education initiatives. She presented her work at Oxford University in 2014.
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An Introduction to the Next Generation Science Standards explains the three dimensions of the standards and how they combine to help students learn new science concepts and apply what they know in the real world.
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The integration of engineering practices is infused throughout the text, including the use of design portfolios as tools to assist students in the design process, and strategies for using engineering design to assess scientific knowledge when appropriate.
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Both favorite and NEW science stories model the application of the Next Generation Science Standards to the classroom.
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New stories focus on urban science students and the ways in which nature outside the classroom door can be a vehicle to learn science.
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A newly revised chapter is devoted solely to the significant conceptual underpinnings in life, physical, and earth and space sciences.
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Numbered Learning Objectives, listed at the beginning of each chapter and correlated with main headings throughout the chapter, guide students as they read. The objectives also make it easy for students and instructors to find key content and understand expected outcomes.
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Professional Resource Downloads include figures, forms, and other useful documents that are downloadable and often customizable. For example, Chapter 4 includes a guide and chart for students to use outdoors to record observations of trees. The Professional Resource Download label identifies these items throughout the text.
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SCIENCE STORIES presents much of the book's theory and practical advice through its illustrations of students and teachers in grades K–8 actually doing science together. Connections to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are explored and thoroughly integrated throughout the text. The stories bring the standards to life. Explicit illustrations of teachers engaging students in engineering design illustrate the science and engineering practices of the NGSS.
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Attention to environmental science stories and locally relevant science experiences (e.g., those concerning issues of conservation or sustainability) encourages young learners to think about the quality of their natural environment and the impact of human development on it.
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SCIENCE STORIES addresses the theory and practice of science teaching through a clear and conversational voice that invites readers to (1) locate their own scientific selves and (2) engage their students in science and engineering practices that allow them to make sense of the natural world and apply that knowledge to other areas of thinking and learning.
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No other science methods textbook offers this book's level of authentic illustration of how students learn science.
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