Instructional sequence matters, Grades 6-8 : structuring lessons with the NGSS in mind / by Patrick Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Patrick, 1978- author.

Series:

Instructional Sequence Matters Series

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Study and teaching (Middle school)--United States.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 103 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Instructional Sequence Matters, Grades 6–8

Place of Publication:

NSTA

Arlington, Virginia : National Science Teachers Association, [2018]

Summary:

This book shows how to make simple shifts in the way teachers arrange and combine activities to improve student learning. It also makes it easy to put the NGSS into practice. After explaining why sequencing is so important, the author provides a complete self-guided tour to becoming an "explore-before-explain" teacher.

Contents:

Rethinking development and learning

Modern sequences of instruction

Content and process working together

Where to start

Teaching about heat and temperature using and investigative demonstration

Investigating change using the invisible test tube demonstration

There's more to magnetism than certain objects being attracted to refrigerators

Making the connection : addressing students' misconceptions of circuits

Gliding into understanding

Lessons learned.

Notes:

NGSS, next generation science standards.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781681405858

1681405857

OCLC:

1107183183