Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach

Grounded in a social and historical context, this unique book encourages readers to think like scientists…

Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School: A Cognitive and Cultural Approach offers pre-service and in-service elementary and middle school teachers of science practical strategies for the classroom as well as a better understanding of the role of science in our day-to-day lives and culture.

Key Features

• Prepares teachers with 100key experiments that teach core, standards-based science concepts within a methods instruction model
• Provides an introduction to the historical, social, cultural, and linguistic construction of science in American culture―in particular, how it functions as a human endeavor
• Emphasizes the idea that science is connected to the world around us through reflection case studies
• Stresses the development of the basic principles underlying scientific methods of thought and inquiry
• Integrates standards in other content areas through "Theory Into Practice" boxes.
• Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries!
• Instructor′s Resources CD: Available by contacting SAGE, this CD offers PowerPoint® lecture slides, a teaching guide for the science standards-based lesson plan project, video clips of select experiments, Theory Into Practice resources, Reflections on Science assignments, Web resources, and a test bank.
• Student Resource CD:Bound into the back of the text, this CD provides students with video clips to illustrate select experiments from the text, as well as other key science concepts. A guide accompanies the video clips to assist student learning.
• Web-Based Student Study Site,http://www.sagepub.com/buxtonstudy: This site provides a variety of additional resources that will enhance students′ understanding of the book content and take their learning one step further.