Exemplary science in grades 5-8 : standards-based success stories / Robert E. Yager, editor.
| Other author | Yager, Robert Eugene, 1930- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, ©2006. |
| Description | xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Exemplary science monograph series Exemplary science monograph series. ^A701206 |
| Contents | Teaching science with student thinking in mind / Jacqueline Grennon Brooks -- 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 -- Teaching science with pictures / Barbara Kay Foots -- Finding out what ... and how they know / Margaret Foss, Mary Reescano, and Karl Spencer -- Teach them to fish / Hector Ibarra -- Creating a classroom culture of scientific practices / Joseph S. Krajcik, Ann M. Novak, Chris Gleason, and Jay Mahoney -- More emphasis on scientific explanation: developing conceptual understanding and science literacy / Joseph S. Krajcik, Elizabeth Birr Moje, LeeAnn M. Sutherland, Alycia Meriweather, Sherul Rucker, Paula Sarratt, and Yulonda Hines-Hale -- Traveling the inquiry continuum: learning through teacher action research / Alyssia Martinez-Wilkinson -- Modeling: naturally selecting an effective teaching method / Karen Mesmer -- Unlocking the national science education standards with IMaST / Marilyn K. Morey, Richard E. Satchwell Franzie L. Loepp, Tracy Hornyak and Jim Pilla -- Achieving a vision of inquiry: rigorous, engaging curriculum and instruction / Barbara Nagle, Manisha Hariani, and Marcelle Siegel -- Adapting the JASON project: real science, real time, real learning / Warren Phillips -- "Re-inventing" science instruction: inquiry-based instruction in a fifth/sixth-grade classroom / Melissa Rooney and Deborah L. Hanuscin -- What do we get to do today? The middle school full option science system program / Terry Shaw -- ARIES: science as discovery ... and discovery as science! / R. Bruce Ward, Janice Catledge, and Kathy Price -- Successes and continuing challenges: meeting the NSES visions for improving science in middle schools / Robert E. Yager. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2005016739 |
| ISBN | 0873552628 |