Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions

Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions
Author: Joseph Stepans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2003
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781891022074

Purpose of this book is to share with teachers the use of the conceptual change strategy to physical science topics which are difficult for students to understand.

Exemplary Science

Exemplary Science
Author: Robert Eugene Yager
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0873552563

This collection of 16 essays is ideal for staff development providers, as well as preservice science methods instructors. Each essay describes a specific program designed to train current or future teachers to carry out the constructivist, inquiry-based approach of the Standards. Each essay also provides evidence of effectiveness on how teachers grow more confident using inquiry approaches,

Science Teaching Reconsidered

Science Teaching Reconsidered
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 1997-03-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309175445

Effective science teaching requires creativity, imagination, and innovation. In light of concerns about American science literacy, scientists and educators have struggled to teach this discipline more effectively. Science Teaching Reconsidered provides undergraduate science educators with a path to understanding students, accommodating their individual differences, and helping them grasp the methodsâ€"and the wonderâ€"of science. What impact does teaching style have? How do I plan a course curriculum? How do I make lectures, classes, and laboratories more effective? How can I tell what students are thinking? Why don't they understand? This handbook provides productive approaches to these and other questions. Written by scientists who are also educators, the handbook offers suggestions for having a greater impact in the classroom and provides resources for further research.

Overcoming Students' Misconceptions in Science

Overcoming Students' Misconceptions in Science
Author: Mageswary Karpudewan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811034370

This book discusses the importance of identifying and addressing misconceptions for the successful teaching and learning of science across all levels of science education from elementary school to high school. It suggests teaching approaches based on research data to address students’ common misconceptions. Detailed descriptions of how these instructional approaches can be incorporated into teaching and learning science are also included. The science education literature extensively documents the findings of studies about students’ misconceptions or alternative conceptions about various science concepts. Furthermore, some of the studies involve systematic approaches to not only creating but also implementing instructional programs to reduce the incidence of these misconceptions among high school science students. These studies, however, are largely unavailable to classroom practitioners, partly because they are usually found in various science education journals that teachers have no time to refer to or are not readily available to them. In response, this book offers an essential and easily accessible guide.

Misconceptions in Primary Science 3e

Misconceptions in Primary Science 3e
Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0335248284

The updated edition of this bestselling book is for the teacher who wants support and practical advice to recognize and deal with the common misconceptions encountered in the primary science classroom. Michael Allen describes over 100 common misconceptions and their potential origins. In addition to background theoretical and research material, he offers creative activities to help you grasp the underlying scientific concepts and bring them to life in the classroom, as well as practical strategies to improve pupil learning. This easy to navigate and friendly guide is a superb toolkit to support you as you teach or prepare to teach in the primary school, irrespective of your training route.

Conceptual Change Model

Conceptual Change Model
Author: Diane L. Schmidt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Constructivism (Education)
ISBN: 9780964996755

Chemical Misconceptions

Chemical Misconceptions
Author: Keith Taber
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780854043866

Part one includes information on some of the key alternative conceptions that have been uncovered by research and general ideas for helping students with the development of scientific conceptions.

Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher

Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher
Author: M. Jenice Goldston
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-01-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412975220

Designed around a practical "practice-what-you-teach" approach to methods instruction, Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher is based on current constructivist philosophy, organized around 5E inquiry, and guided by the National Science Education Teaching Standards. Written in a reader-friendly style, the book prepares instructors to teach science in ways that foster positive attitudes, engagement, and meaningful science learning for themselves and their students.

Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions

Targeting Students' Science Misconceptions
Author: Joseph Stepans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781885041005

Purpose of this book is to share with teachers the use of the conceptual change strategy to physical science topics which are difficult for students to understand.