Features a collection of lesson plans on space sciences, provided by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) of the National Library of Education. Includes lesson plans on astronomy, constellations, orbiting satellites, interplanetary distance and travel time, the solar system, and phases of the moon, among others.
Presents the lesson plan "Our Solar System," provided by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) of the National Library of Education. The goal of the lesson plan is to teach students about the solar system. Discusses the grade levels, objectives, materials needed, and activities.
Presents the lesson plan "Bringing the Solar System to Life," provided by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) of the National Library of Education. The goal of the lesson plan is to teach students about the solar system. Discusses the grade levels, objectives, materials needed, and procedures.
This broad-based volume highlights dozens of situations and challenges associated with middle school and secondary school science teaching, along with the suggestions of experts for improving practice and stimulating creative thinking in a scientific vein. After an introduction to the case-based pedagogy, ten chapters present three to four cases each, all of which relate to a central theme. The final chapter delineates a methodology for creating engaging, instructional cases from one's personal teaching experience. Through a study of the cases, future and practicing science teachers can glean an understanding of prevailing instructional practices and convincing, research-based arguments with which to challenge current traditional approaches. For future and in-service science teachers at middle and secondary schools.
Solidly based on the National Science Education Standards and Benchmarks for Science Literacy, this new elementary science methods text immerses students into the context of classroom instruction through the authors' unique approach using The Teaching Cycle.The text is divided into three major sections or clusters of chapters: Goals of Science Instruction, Setting the Stage, and The Teaching Cycle. The first two sections provide the theoretical and practical foundations for instruction, while the third section provides content.Section I presents an overall view of science as a way of knowing and eventually develops an argument for why science should be included in the curriculum at all. Section II emphasizes the importance of connecting lessons and avoiding the tendency to present individual science lessons in isolation.The major content chapters comprising Section III--The Teaching Cycle (Life/Environmental Science, Physical Science, Earth and Space Science)--each incorporate the traditional topics of methods courses, e.g., demonstrations, laboratories, classroom management, assessment, developmental psychology, etc. concepts and themes common to national reforms.
Presents the lesson plan "Structure of Matter," provided by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) of the National Library of Education. The goal of the lesson plan is to teach students about mixtures, including solutions and suspensions. Discusses the grade levels, objectives, materials needed, and activities.
TeachersFirst presents a collection of Web sites featuring lesson plans for astronomy and space science. The collection includes lessons for grades K-12 and offers a brief description of each site. TeachersFirst, a service of the Network for Instructional TV, Inc., provides K-12 lesson plans and Web resources.