Product Description: In today’s standards-based educational climate, teachers are challenged to create meaningful learning experiences while meeting specific goals and accountability targets. In her essential new book, Elizabeth Hammerman brings more than 20 years as a science educator and consultant to help teachers connect all of the critical elements of first-rate curriculum and instruction...read more

Answering calls in recent reform documents to shape instruction in response to students’ ideas while integrating key concepts and scientific and/or mathematical practices, this text presents the concept of responsive teaching, synthesizes existing research, and examines implications for both research and teaching. Case studies across the curriculum from elementary school through adult education illustrate the variety of forms this approach to instruction and learning can take, what is common among them, and how teachers and students experience it. The cases include intellectual products of students’ work in responsive classrooms and address assessment methods and issues. Many of the cases are supplemented with online resources (http://www.studentsthinking.org/rtsm) including classroom video and extensive transcripts, providing readers with additional opportunities to immerse themselves in responsive classrooms and to see for themselves what these environments look and feel like.

Product Description: "This timely and innovative book encourages us to ‘flip the classroom’ and empower our students to become content creators. Through creating digital media, they will not only improve their communication skills, but also gain a deeper understanding of core scientific concepts...read more

The sole survivor of a failed intelligence mission, cyber-enhanced man Aksum Muse takes refuge on the planet Burst but finds himself to be the unwitting key to a coming stellar war. Original.

Product Description: Relishing the tasks of celebrating, challenging and progressing our understanding of equity and diversity in science education, this thematically structured book explores five key areas of relevant research that include policy, globalization and leadership.

Product Description: Educators now believe that ‘argumentation’ (which includes debate and persuasion) in learning activities can develop students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. This volume covers theory, best practice and research in argumentation in the classroom.

Product Description: Focusing on science education, this volume presents recent studies on the role metacognition plays in learning and higher order thinking. Readers will find cutting-edge research about how various forms of metacognitive instruction may enhance thinking in science classrooms.

Product Description: Socio-scientific issues (SSI) are open-ended, multifaceted social issues with conceptual links to science. They are challenging to negotiate and resolve, and they create ideal contexts for bridging school science and the lived experience of students...read more

Product Description: Deep Knowledge is a book about how people's ideas change as they learn to teach. Using the experiences of six middle and high school student teachers as they learn to teach science in diverse classrooms, Larkin explores how their work changes the way they think about students, society, schools, and science itself...read more

Product Description: Just like representations in everyday life, this book shows that represenations are ubiquitous to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the STEM disciplines. "Show Me What You Know" showcases research on representations across a range of STEM disciplines and ages, from children as young as 2 years of age to professional mathematicians...read more

Product Description: There are only a few studies that investigate the actual small-scale classroom processes and approaches that allow for students to participate in “doing” critical science and none that compare Cse to traditional classroom contexts...read more

Product Description: This book will help the reader to design and evaluate varying professional development options, thereby making better and more efficient use of limited professional development dollars. The editors of Exemplary Science: Best Practices in Professional Development If you want to make the most of your precious professional development budget and who doesn t? look for inspiration in this updated edition from the Exemplary Science series...read more

Product Description: Approaches and Strategies in Next Generation Science Learning examines the challenges involved in the development of modern curriculum models, teaching strategies, and assessments in science education in order to prepare future students in the 21st century economies...read more