A Few of Our Favorite Things : Teaching Ideas for K-12 Science Methods Instructors.

Intro -- A Few of Our Favorite Things: Teaching Ideas for K-12 Science Methods Instructors -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction: A Few of Our Favorite Things: Teaching Ideas for K-12 Science Methods Instructors -- Section One: Constructivism/Conceptual Change -- Introduction -- Reviewing Constructivism -- Writing Science Stories to Learn Science -- Air as Mass: Experiencing the Challenge of Conceptual Change -- Building the Learning Environment Needed for Teaching Based on Constructivism and Conceptual Change -- Teaching for Conceptual Change -- Teaching for Conceptual Change When Alternative Views Cannot be Experimentally Tested -- Section Two: Nature of Science -- Introduction -- What's the Matter Anyway? Exploring Content and Nature of Science through Oobleck -- Shedding Some Light on Inferences -- Mystery Tubes -- The Nature of Science Examined through a Checks Lab Allegory -- Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life in Antarctica -- Fossil Forensics -- Who are Scientists and What Do Scientists Do? -- Section Three: Integration -- Introduction -- Integrating Technology into a Science Methods Course: Using NSTA's Learning Center -- Coriolis What?: What to do when Faced with a Challenging Topic (with a technology twist) -- Electromagnetism: An Inquiry Lesson Development -- Integrating Writing to Support Scientific Thinking -- Section Four: Scientific Inquiry/Engineering Design -- Introduction -- Science as a Way of Knowing -- Is This STEM? -- Being a Bird -- Minute Madness -- What's in the Can? -- Integrating Engineering Standards with the Common Core Standards and Elementary Science Performance Standards -- Section Five: Diversity/Differentiation -- Introduction -- Considering Cultural Difference in Science Teaching -- Teaching about the Nature of Science through Digital Scientific Timelines.

Cultivating Equitable Instruction in the Science Classroom -- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Inclusive Design for Learning (IDL) -- A Bubble Exploration of Response to Intervention (RtI), Tier I -- Magnetic Interactions -- Observations and Arguments in K-5: The 4 Seasons.

We are all familiar with the expression "teachers' bag of tricks." It is fairly easy for K-12 teachers to do a quick web search, scan library shelves, and browse through journals to provide them with numerous lessons and ideas to keep their bags filled. Science teacher educators need to not only provide preservice teachers with resources to help them fill their "bags," but also include crucial theory and pedagogy; what constitutes "minds on" lessons, not merely "hands on" activities.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.