Beyond the Science Kit: Inquiry in Action

The goal of Wendy Saul and Jeanne Reardon's book is not to dispense with kits, rather to encourage teachers and their students to see kits as just a beginning to real scientific inquiry.  The essays in this volume reveal how elementary teachers have turned around their teaching to make themselves and their students producers as well as consumers of science knowledge.

Jeanne Reardon is a classroom teacher who works with ESIP at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. A long-time classroom teacher, Jeanne is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching.

Wendy Saul, Professor of Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, is Director of the National Science Foundation-supported Elementary Science Integration Projects (ESIP). She is the originator of Search It! Science, an online resource available from Heinemann. She also serves as editor of "Thinking Classroom: An International Journal of Reading, Writing and Critical Reflection."