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Buxton, Cory A.

Place-based science teaching and learning40 activities for K-8 classrooms /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Place-based science teaching and learningCory A. Buxton, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
Reminder of title:	40 activities for K-8 classrooms /
Author:	Buxton, Cory A.
other author:	Provenzo, Eugene F.
Published:	Thousand Oaks :SAGE Publications,c2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxiii, 207 p.) :ill.
Subject:	ScienceStudy and teaching (Elementary)
Online resource:	http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/place-based-science-teaching-and-learning/SAGE.xml
ISBN:	9781452230535 (electronic bk.)

Place-based science teaching and learning40 activities for K-8 classrooms /
Buxton, Cory A.

Place-based science teaching and learning40 activities for K-8 classrooms /[electronic resource] :Cory A. Buxton, Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. - Thousand Oaks :SAGE Publications,c2012. - 1 online resource (xxxiii, 207 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Activities to Promote Place-Based Science Teaching in the Classroom: -- Monocot versus Dicot Plants -- Germinating Seeds -- How will global warming affect you? -- Your water footprint -- Where did my juice come from? -- Distance learning: Reaching beyond one's classroom -- Interviewing a Scientist -- Creating an Environmental Advocacy Press kit -- Part II: Activities to Promote Place-Based Science Teaching in the School Building: -- Student nutrition and eating habits at School -- Study of student exercise habits -- Study of fitness levels -- Water fountain water versus Bottled water -- How physical space is used in schools -- Conducting a school energy audit -- Water drops and water loss -- Science performances -- Part III: Activities to Promote Place-Based Science Teaching on the School Grounds: -- Tracking weather -- Soil erosion and runoff -- Urban gardens -- Bird watching in the schoolyard -- Adopt a tree -- One square meter of ground survey -- Insects all around you -- Acid rain -- Part IV: Activities to Promote Place-Based Science Teaching in the Neighborhood: -- Stream study, monitoring, and restoration -- Pollution in the neighborhood -- Traffic patterns -- Survey of local plants -- Science in swimming pools -- Patterns in Nature -- Wildlife census in a neighborhood park -- Who gets sick and why? -- Part V: Activities to Promote Place-Based Science Teaching the Broader Community: -- Science in museums -- Science in zoos and aquariums -- Surveying local parks -- Geology and buildings -- Science in hospitals and health care -- Where does your food come from? -- Where does your water come from? -- Where does your garbage go?.

"Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides elementary and middle school teachers with 40 place-based activities that will help them to make science learning relevant to their students. This text provides teachers with both a rationale and a set of strategies and activities for teaching science in a local context to help students engage with science learning and come to understand the importance of science in their everyday lives."--pub. desc.

ISBN: 9781452230535 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

319000
Science
--Study and teaching (Elementary)

LC Class. No.: LB1585 / .B87 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 372.35/044

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