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Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum for the Life Sciences

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Availability:In StockContributor:Neal A. GlasgowPublish date:8/23/1996Pages:184
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Corwin PublishersISBN-13:9780803964778ISBN-10:0803964773UPC:9780803964778Book Category:Education, ScienceBook Subcategory:Teaching, Life SciencesBook Topic:Subjects, BiologySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SCZ6FJJW2E
Offers new views and strategies to enliven the teaching of science by incorporating the investigative aspects of the subject. Bound to provide invaluable help in solving a very serious national problem. William J. Lennarz, Professor and Chairman Dept. of Biochemistry and Cell Biology State University of New York at Stony Brook Provides science teaches with innovative ways to involve students in working on dynamic, real-world problems and projects. This probmel-based, student-centered approach to "doing science" focuses on life science learning and includes lessons from biology, chemistry, and physics. This holistic method has been incorporated into the national standards for science education. Includes practical examples on how to: * Utilize the natural curiosity, concern, and creativity of students to turn them into active participants in instruction, instead of passive recipients * Design and develop problem and activity scenarios, and assess and evaluate the end results * Teach students where and how to collect and analyze data in order to find the solutions to questions and problems * Recruit and incorporate community mentors into your students′ projects Addresses issues of liability and includes sample projects, policies, and release and permission forms. The author provides all the tools you need to turn life sciences into a "living" science.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Corwin PublishersISBN-13:9780803964778ISBN-10:0803964773UPC:9780803964778Book Category:Education, ScienceBook Subcategory:Teaching, Life SciencesBook Topic:Subjects, BiologySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.272Product ID:SCZ6FJJW2E

Neal A. Glasgow′s experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).


Publisher: Corwin Publishers

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Neal A. Glasgow

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