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Primary science : taking the plunge / Wynne Harlen with chapters by Jos Elstgeest and Sheila Jelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harlen, Wynne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Science.
- Interaction analysis in education.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2001]
- Summary:
- This book is written for preservice and inservice classroom teachers in primary, elementary, and middle schools.
- Contents:
- 1 Why Science? What Science? 1
- Why Science? 1
- What Science? 4
- How? 7
- 2 Bringing Children and Science Together 13
- Motivation for Learning 14
- Use of Evidence 18
- The Classroom Atmosphere 21
- 3 The Right Question at the Right Time (Jos Elstgeest) 25
- What Is a "Wrong" Question? 26
- Productive Questions 27
- Teachers' How and Why Questions 30
- Children's How and Why Questions 32
- Teachers' Explanations 33
- 4 Helping Children Raise Questions
- and Answering Them (Sheila Jelly) 36
- Improving Teachers' Questioning Skills 38
- Establishing a Classroom Climate Conducive to Children's Question Asking 39
- Handling Children's Spontaneous Questions 43
- 5 Taking Children's Own Ideas Seriously 48
- Examples of Children's Ideas 49
- Why Might Children Hold These Ideas? 55
- Finding Out Children's Ideas 57
- What Can We Do to Change Children's Ideas? 60
- Involving the Children 62
- 6 Helping Children to Plan and Interpret Investigations 65
- Different Kinds of Investigations 65
- Planning Investigations 67
- The Skills Involved in Planning 70
- Interpreting Findings 77
- Ways of Helping Children's Planning 78
- 7 Helping Children to Observe 85
- About Observation 85
- Aspects of Observation 87
- The Teacher's Role 92
- 8 Helping Children to Communicate 100
- Children's Notebooks/Journals 105
- Drawing, Painting, and Modeling 109
- 9 Assessing for Learning 119
- Meanings and Purposes 119
- Why Formative Assessment? 123
- Using Assessment to Adapt Teaching 124
- Feedback from Teacher to Children 129
- Children Assessing Their Own Work 130.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0325003866
- OCLC:
- 47225070
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