Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom

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NSTA Press, 2003 - 164 Seiten

Designed as a ready-to-use survival guide for middle school Earth science teachers, this title is an invaluable resource that provides an entire year's worth of inquiry-based and discovery-oriented Earth science lessons, including 33 investigations or labs and 17 detailed projects.

This unique collection of astronomy, geology, meteorology, and physical oceanography lessons promotes deeper understanding of science concepts through a hands-on approach that identifies and dispels student misconceptions and expands student understanding and knowledge.

In addition, this field-tested and standards-based volume is ideal for university-level methodology courses in science education.

 

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CHAPTER 1
1
CHAPTER 2
13
CHAPTER 3
27
CHAPTER 4
41
CHAPTER 5
61
CHAPTER 6
75
CHAPTER 7
89
CHAPTER 8
109
CHAPTER 9
121
CHAPTER 10
147
Index
159
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Seite 4 - There is a good deal of evidence that learning is enhanced when teachers pay attention to the knowledge and beliefs that learners bring to a learning task, use this knowledge as a starting point for new instruction, and monitor students' changing conceptions as instruction proceeds.
Seite 3 - The most important contribution ... is the insight that all learning involves thinking. It is incorrect to believe, according to old learning theory, that the basics can be taught by rote followed by thinking and reasoning. As documented by the Resnicks, even comprehension of simple texts requires a process of inferring and thinking about what the text means. Children who are drilled in number facts, algorithms, decoding skills or vocabulary lists without developing a basic conceptual model or seeing...

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