Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher
- ISBN-10
- 1452241864
- ISBN-13
- 9781452241869
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-01-18
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Authors
- M. Jenice Goldston, Laura Downey
Description
Your Science Classroom: Becoming an Elementary / Middle School Science Teacher, by authors M. Jenice "Dee" Goldston and Laura Downey, is a core teaching methods textbook for use in elementary and middle school science methods courses. Designed around a practical, "practice-what-you-teach" approach to methods instruction, the text is based on current constructivist philosophy, organized around 5E inquiry, and guided by the National Science Education Teaching Standards.
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