Teaching Science to Children: An Inquiry Approach - Softcover

Alfred-e-friedl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070224595 ISBN 13: 9780070224599

Publisher: McGraw-Hill College, 1997

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive, easy-to-use text containing more than 300 science teaching activities, 35 of which are new to this edition. Although originated as an Elementary Science Methods text, it has become increasingly popular as a text for inservice seminars and workshops.

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About the Author

Alfred E. Friedl is Emeritus Professor of Education at Kent State University. He received the first eight years of his education in a one-room elementary school in Minnesota. He attended high school in Albany, Minnesota, and received an undergraduate degree from Saint Cloud State College. Professor Friedl began his teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Minnesota and California. After receiving his doctorate in Education from Colorado State University, he served as a curriculum coordinator for the San Diego County Department of Education. He also taught extension classes for San Diego State University and UCLA. He later moved to Kent State University where he taught for twenty-five years. In addition to winning an “outstanding teacher” award from Kent State, he also won a national teaching award for writing and presenting a 13-week television series entitled, “Teaching Children about Space Science.” Professor Friedl has written extensively for more than three decades—authoring or co-authoring more than twenty books. He co-authored his first book, YOUR SCIENCE FAIR, while still a sixth grade teacher. His most recent books include MODERN PHYSICAL SCIENCE and EXERCISES AND INVESTIGATIONS, both high school science textbooks.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill College
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070224595
• ISBN 13: 9780070224599
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 352