Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "over 60 minutes of brief, interactive video segments of classroom footage, insights from future teachers, and safety demonstrations."--Page 4 of cover.

This compact, paperback volume provides preservice teachers with STRATEGIES AND METHODS of teaching science in the K-8 classroom using Inquiry. The authors integrate the NSE standards, constructivism, and technology, into their popular "E" approach to teaching. Exploration, Explanation, Expansion, and Evaluation make up the 4 "E's" of the learning cycle model first invented by Robert Karplus as part of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study in the 1960s. Teaching Science for All Children: Inquiry Methods for Constructing Understanding provides methods for future teachers to foster awareness among their students of the nature of science; to implement skills in the classroom using science inquiry processes; and to develop in their students an understanding of the interactions among science, technology, and society.

Contains more than 50 complete science lessons organized according to the disciplines identified by the NSES: life, physical, and earth and space sciences. Each lesson now features a leading inquiry question, to help guide students in learning the concepts of the activity. Reflects the most up to date coverage of educational technology and NETS standards. These lessons contain more than 150 different activities that encourage hands-on/minds-on student activity and stimulates high levels of concept formation. Science Content and Methods for teaching K-8. Designed as a main text for K-8 science methods courses offered in departments of curriculum & instruction.

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, e, p, i, t.

The Fifth Edition of this popular elementary science methods text emphasizes learning science through inquiry, implementation of the Learning Cycle, NSE standards, constructivism, technology, and strategies for teaching diverse learners. Teaching Science for All Children employs an inquiry model throughout, especially apparent in the design of its learning cycle lesson plans. Engaging Questions, Exploration, Explanation, Expansion, and Evaluation make up the Es of this modern learning cycle based on the model first invented by Robert Karplus as part of the Science Curriculum Improvement Study in the 1960s. The text provides methods for future teachers to foster awareness and understanding among their students of the nature of science; to construct understandings of and connections between various science content; to encourage application of science inquiry processes in the classroom; and to develop their students' understanding of the interactions between science, technology, and society.The final sections of the book incorporate Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science lessons as a means to convey important pedagogical content knowledge and ideas to implement in the elementary classroom.