The Science Explorer: Family Experiments
from the World’s Favorite Hands On Science Museum.
Sponsored by the San Francisco Exploratorium Museum, this
book offers hundreds of scientific experiments, amusements, and tricks for children and
instructions and explanations for adults. This book is specifically designed for curious
kids and for grown-ups who want to encourage a child’s invention, curiosity, and
eagerness to explore while having fun. Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, & Linda Shore,
Grades K-12, Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
Exploring Statistics in the Elementary Grades:
Book 1
This guide contains developmentally appropriate activities
that will interest and engage students as they learn and use statistical concepts and
vocabulary. Lesson outlines, reference information, and definition of terms are included.
As teachers use the program activities, they learn to find statistical opportunities in
their classrooms on which to build many other learning opportunities. Book 2 is also
available and is for grades 4-8. Carolyn Bereska, Cyrilla Bolster, L. Bolster, and
Richard Scheaffer, Dale Seymour Publications, Grades K-6, 1998.
Math-O-Graphs: Graphic Organizers for
Mathematics
This resource includes activities that are structured to
provide a means of inviting critical thinking into your classroom. Each activity proceeds
through several steps. First, it begins with objectives that meet national standards.
Then, it presents an initial graph for anticipatory discussion and vocabulary development.
Next, it moves into creating a class graph for processing information, and develops
mathematical and graphic strategies for solving a math problem. It concludes by offering
extending activities for reinforcing mathematical concepts through further exploration. Donna
Buck and Francis Hildebrand, Grades K-12, Critical Thinking Press, 1990.
Decisions-Based on Science
In this introduction to decision making exercise, students
use scientific ways of thinking to make everyday decisions. As students master the skills
of decision making, they will be able to identify and state problems; identify viable
options; research risks and benefits; make decisions based on rational methods; and
present the decision coherently and logically. Vincent Campbell, Jocelyn Lofstrom, and
Brian Jerome, National Science Teachers Association, Grades 9-12, 1997.
Empowering Students by Promoting Active
Learning in Mathematics: Teacher Speak to Teachers
A compilation of seven academic articles on the following
subjects:
1. Introduction: Students’ Conceptions of Mathematics
and the Challenge of the Standards;
2. "Math is Like a Used Car": Metaphors Reveal
Attitudes Toward Mathematics;
3. Cooperative Learning in the Secondary School Mathematics
Classroom;
4. Listening to Students through Writing;
5. Writing and Cognition: Implications for Mathematics
Instruction;
6. Conflicting Goals in the Mathematics Classroom;
7. Broadening Students’ Conceptions of Mathematics:
Theory into Action. Dorothy Buerk, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1994.
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