Creating Scientists (Eye on Education) - Softcover

Moore, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138237981 ISBN 13: 9781138237988

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Teach your students how to BE scientists!

This book shows you how to create living, breathing scientists by shifting your teaching from a content focus to a hands-on, practice focus, where students discover science by doing science. As required by the new Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), this practical book provides a clear, research verified framework for building lessons that teach science practice abilities, such as gathering and making sense of data, constructing explanations, designing experiments, and communicating information. Creating Scientists features reproducible, immediately deployable tools and handouts that you can use in the classroom to assess your students' learning within the domains for the NGSS or any standards framework that focuses on the integration of science practice with content. This book is an invaluable resource for educators seeking to build a "community of practice," where students discover ideas through well-taught, hands-on, authentic science experiences that foster an innate love for learning how the world works.

Creating Scientists will provide the following: 

1. an approachable introduction to the relevant research on what science practice is, how it can be taught, and how it can be assessed; 
2. specific, immediately deployable classroom activities that serve as examples of putting theory into practice; and
3. a framework you can use to create new lessons for your specific content needs - all in the context of next generation standards worldwide, like the Core and NGSS in the United States.

The framework and activities described in the book are all research-based and demonstrated to work. They will provide you the classroom tools necessary to help your students gain the ability to do science and discover, rather than just memorize science facts.

About this title

About the Author

Christopher Moore is a former physical science teacher and the Dr. George F. Haddix Community Chair in Physical Science and associate professor of physics education at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Holding a M.S. in applied physics and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, Dr. Moore has worked as a physical science teacher at several secondary schools in Virginia, as a professional materials scientist, and as a scholar of and consultant on science education. His education research focuses on the development of scientific reasoning and expert-like science practice abilities, with emphasis on practices that cross disciplines. This work has resulted in the publication of several dozen articles, invited speaker roles all over the world, and multiple awards including a Fulbright Scholar award. He has developed pre- and in-service teacher training workshops on science practices in the Czech Republic, Mexico, and for school districts across the USA. Dr. Moore's website is creatingscientists.com, where printable tools from this book can be found.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138237981
• ISBN 13: 9781138237988
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196