Since their release in 1996, the National Science Education Standards have provided the vision for science education reform. But has that reform actually taken hold in elementary school? Yes!, reports Robert Yager, editor of Exemplary Science in Grades PreK 4: Standards-Based Success Stories. Probably the Standards have done more to change science in elementary schools than has occurred at the other grade levels. Evidence of change is apparent in this fourth volume of the Exemplary Science monograph series, an essay collection featuring educators in PreK-4 describing programs they ve developed to fulfill the Standards More Emphasis guidelines. The 14 programs are real-life examples you can learn from in carrying out reforms in teaching, assessment, professional development, and content. Among the topics covered: Adapting Science Curricula in the Kindergarten Classroom, Building on the Natural Wonder Inherent in Us All, Guiding Students in Active and Extended Scientific Inquiry, Active, Integrated Inquiry in an Afterschool Setting, and Thinking Outside the Box: No Child Left Inside! As Yager writes in the book s introduction, The 14 exemplary programs can be seen as models for other teachers not just to copy, but as ways of approaching science and encouraging their students to do more of what they like... When both teachers and students are enthused, curious, and involved, science becomes central to the lives of students and others in the community and can tie the whole school experience together.

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...This book is a must-have resource for elementary schools professional development libraries. ... Both the authors of the exemplars and the editors are to be commended for sharing the progress toward putting the NSES vision into practice in elementary school classrooms. --Science Books & Films, March/April 2007

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