Contemporary science teaching approaches : promoting conceptual understanding in science

Contemporary science teaching approaches focus on fostering students to construct new scientific knowledge as a process of inquiry rather than having them act as passive learners memorizing stated scientific facts. Although this perspective of teaching science is clearly emphasized in the National R...

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Other Authors Ornek, Funda (Editor), Saleh, Issa M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
Subjects
Science > Study and teaching (Secondary)
Inquiry-based learning.
Education > Teaching > Subjects > Science & Technology.
Teaching skills and techniques.
Teaching of a specific subject.
Educational: Sciences, general science.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615353
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-610-0
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Strategies in teaching science
  • Chapter 1. Science teaching approaches to promote conceptual understanding in science / Issa M. Saleh and Funda Ornek
  • Chapter 2. Differentiating science pedagogy / Anila Asghar
  • Chapter 3. The metacognitive science teacher: A statement for enhanced teacher cognition and pedagogy / Gregory P. Thomas
  • Chapter 4. Teaching about climate change: An action research approach / John Wilkinson
  • Chapter 5. Constructivist, analogical, and metacognitive approaches to science teaching and learning / Samson M. Nashon and J. Douglas Adler
  • Chapter 6. Concept mapping and the teaching of science / Sadiah Baharom
  • Chapter 7. Physics modeling: An approach stimulates students' conceptual understanding of scientific concepts / Funda Ornek
  • Part II. Using computers in teaching science
  • Chapter 8. A framework for the integration of technology into science instruction / Yilmaz Saglam and Servet Demir
  • Chapter 9. Real-time experiments and images (rtei) as open learning environments for building physics knowledge / Giorgio Olimpo and Elena Sassi
  • Chapter 10. Enhancing asynchronous learning in a blended learning environment / Mun Fie Tsoi.

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