Seeing the Science in Children's Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeing the Science in Children's Thinking write by David Hammer. This book was released on 2006. Seeing the Science in Children's Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This book is a field guide to the science classroom with authentic examples presented in written and video form. The authors offer six in-depth case studies of class discussion from grades 1 through 8, each keyed to clips of minimally edited in-the-classroom footage on the companion DVD-ROM."--BOOK JACKET.
Points of Viewing Children's Thinking
Points of Viewing Children's Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Points of Viewing Children's Thinking write by Ricki Goldman-Segall. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Points of Viewing Children's Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Simultaneously, it portrays young people's "thinking attitudes" in computer-based learning environments, and it describes how the practice of ethnography is changing in a digital world. The author likens this form of interaction to "the double helix," where learning and ethnography are intertwined to tell an emergent story about partnerships with technology. Two school computer cultures were videotaped for this study. Separated not only by geography -- one school is on the east coast of New England and the other on the west coast of British Columbia on Vancouver Island -- they are also separated in other ways: ethnic make-up and inner-city vs. rural settings to name only two. Yet these two schools are joined by a strong thread: a change in their respective cultures with the advent of intensive computer-use on the part of the students. Both school communities have watched their young people gain literacy and competence, and their tools have changed from pen to computer, video camera, multimedia and the Internet. Perhaps most striking is that the way they think of themselves as learners has also changed: they see themselves as an active participant, in the pilot's seat or director's chair, as they chart new connections between diverse and often unpredictable worlds of knowledge.
Imagining the Impossible
Imagining the Impossible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Impossible write by Karl S. Rosengren. This book was released on 2000-05-29. Imagining the Impossible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, first published in 2000, is about the development of human thinking that stretches beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. Various research initiatives emerged in the decade prior to publication exploring such matters as children's thinking about imaginary beings, magic and the supernatural. The purpose of this book is to capture something of the larger spirit of these efforts. In many ways, this new work offers a counterpoint to research on the development of children's domain-specific knowledge about the ordinary nature of things that has suggested that children become increasingly scientific and rational over the course of development. In acquiring an intuitive understanding of the physical, biological or psychological domains, even young children recognize that there are constraints on what can happen. However, once such constraints are acknowledged, children are in a position to think about the violation of those very same constraints - to contemplate the impossible.
Talking Their Way Into Science
Talking Their Way Into Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking Their Way Into Science write by Karen Gallas. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Talking Their Way Into Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Karen Gallas provides us with a window into children’s thinking about the world, enabling us to see how students build complex theories, identify important questions, and begin to enter the world of science, all within the naturalistic setting of the classroom. As the title suggests, this book treats classroom science as a particular type of discourse, with its own set of language and thinking practices. Gallas describes the content, structure, and practice of her child-centered approach, explains how the teacher’s role in Science Talks develops and changes over time, and discusses how the use of Science Talks could transform science instruction as a whole. The full transcripts of two such talks included in the appendix, in addition to many smaller quoted interchanges throughout the text, will fascinate readers.
Taking Science to School
Taking Science to School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Science to School write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2007-04-16. Taking Science to School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is science for a child? How do children learn about science and how to do science? Drawing on a vast array of work from neuroscience to classroom observation, Taking Science to School provides a comprehensive picture of what we know about teaching and learning science from kindergarten through eighth grade. By looking at a broad range of questions, this book provides a basic foundation for guiding science teaching and supporting students in their learning. Taking Science to School answers such questions as: When do children begin to learn about science? Are there critical stages in a child's development of such scientific concepts as mass or animate objects? What role does nonschool learning play in children's knowledge of science? How can science education capitalize on children's natural curiosity? What are the best tasks for books, lectures, and hands-on learning? How can teachers be taught to teach science? The book also provides a detailed examination of how we know what we know about children's learning of scienceâ€"about the role of research and evidence. This book will be an essential resource for everyone involved in K-8 science educationâ€"teachers, principals, boards of education, teacher education providers and accreditors, education researchers, federal education agencies, and state and federal policy makers. It will also be a useful guide for parents and others interested in how children learn.
