Teaching Science to Children: An Inquiry Approach

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McGraw-Hill Education, 2005 - Education - 459 pages
This comprehensive, easy-to-use text contains more than 300 science activities for the classroom. The text’s focus on the inquiry approach ties it to the inquiry-oriented National Science Education Standards for science teaching issued by the National Research Council. Each of the inquiry activities contains combined discussions of methods and content, and the text helps students overcome science anxiety by showing them how easy it is to teach science using a simple, consistent three-step approach to each of the activities (set induction, investigation, and resolution).

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CHAPTER
1
Inquiry
9
Alternative Assessment
15
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Trish Koontz is an associate professor of Mathematics and Science Education at Kent State University in the College of Education. She received her Ph.D. in education from Kent State University where she has been on the faculty since 1983. A former elementary, middle, and high school teacher, she has authored or co-authored several chapters and articles dealing with her special interests in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science as well as gender equity issues in education. She has received several teaching awards including a Best Practices Award from the State of Ohio for her National Science Foundation grant project.

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