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Dewey Decimal Number: 372
EAN num: 9780495506751
ISBN number: 0495506753
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
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Page Count: 626
Printing Date: January 31, 2008
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ELEMENTARY SCIENCE METHODS: A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH, Fifth Edition, is based on two fundamental and complementary ideas: it is more important for children to learn how to do science than to learn about science, and elementary science teachers do not need to know a great deal of science but rather should be co- inquirers with their students. To facilitate learning, this text features a wealth of exercises, including open-ended inquiry activities that help teacher candidates construct their own personal conceptualizations about science content and teaching methods. The text also contains over 170 process-oriented, open-ended activities, organized by grade level, that practicing teachers can use to encourage children to develop and perform their own investigations. The Book Companion DVD (available separately) provides valuable tools and resources such as additional activities and video clips that students can use both in their college course and later in elementary science classrooms.
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Although I am not currently teaching, I found this book to be easy to read, interesting, and contain engaging and useful lessons and activities for students of all ages.
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I had to get this book for a class. There are some good ideas in it, but the authors expect you to perform every experiment in it, and if you don't, you "miss out" on many of their ideas. It seems a little ridiculous -- one chapter is over 100 pages long and there are a TON of experiments in that chapter alone that the authors refer to over and over again. I'm sorry, but I did not have the time to do those activities!!!
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This is a wonderful resource for Elementary Education Majors. Easy read!
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I am using this book as a reference for a master's project I am working on in education. I have found the book to be very useful and helpful. However, I am deeply disturbed by a glaring error contained in the text. Martin briefly overviews the history of the process approach to science education near the beginning of the book. Since I am including a history in my project, I have paid careful attention to this section. He states, "In October, 1959, the United States felt deeply humiliated by the launching of the Soviet spaceship, Sputnik" (p. 16). This event occurred on October 4, 1957! He goes on to say that the Woods Hole Conference took place one month earlier. In reality, Woods Hole took place in September of 1959, nearly two years later (Bruner, 1960). These mistakes almost discredit the entire book for me. Let's hope that the new 1999 edition corrects these errors.
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