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Tables of Contents for Primary Science
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ix
Why Science? What Science?
1
12
Why Science?
1
3
What Science?
4
3
How?
7
5
Summary of Main Points
12
1
Bringing Children and Science Together
13
12
Motivation for Learning
14
4
Use of Evidence
18
3
The Classroom Atmosphere
21
1
Summary of Main Points
22
3
The Right Question at the Right Time
25
11
Jos Elstgeest
What Is a ``Wrong'' Question?
26
1
Productive Questions
27
3
Teachers' How and Why Questions
30
2
Children's How and Why Questions
32
1
Teachers' Explanations
33
1
Summary of Main Points
34
2
Helping Children Raise Questions-and Answering Them
36
12
Sheila Jelly
Improving Teachers' Questioning Skills
38
1
Establishing a Classroom Climate Conductive to Children's Question Asking
39
4
Handling Children's Spontaneous Questions
43
3
Summary of Main Points
46
2
Taking Children's Own Ideas Seriously
48
17
Examples of Children's Ideas
49
6
Why Might Children Hold These Ideas?
55
2
Finding Out Children's Ideas
57
3
What Can We Do to Change Children's Ideas?
60
2
Involving the Children
62
1
Summary of Main Points
63
2
Helping Children to Plan and Interpret Investigations
65
20
Different Kinds of Investigations
65
2
Planning Investigations
67
3
The Skills Involved in Planning
70
7
Interpreting Findings
77
1
Ways of Helping Children's Planning
78
5
Summary of Main Points
83
2
Helping Children to Observe
85
15
About Observation
85
2
Aspects of Observation
87
5
The Teacher's Role
92
5
Summary of Main Points
97
3
Helping Children to Communicate
100
19
Discussion
100
5
Children's Notebooks/Journals
105
4
Drawing, Painting, and Modeling
109
6
Summary of Main Points
115
4
Assessing for Learning
119
17
Meanings and Purposes
119
4
Why Formative Assessment?
123
1
Using Assessment to Adapt Teaching
124
5
Feedback from Teacher to Children
129
1
Children Assessing Their Own Work
130
3
Summary of Main Points
133
3
References
136
2
Index
138