Teaching Science to Children : An Inquiry Approach

by Friedl, Alfred E.

• ISBN13: 9780070224599
• ISBN10: 0070224595
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: McGraw Hill College Div

Summary

This comprehensive, easy-to-use text contains more than 300 science activities for the classroom. The text's focus on the inquiry approach ties it to the inquiry-oriented National Science Education Standards for science teaching issued by the National Research Council. Each of the inquiry activities contains combined discussions of methods and content, and the text helps students overcome science anxiety by showing them how easy it is to teach science using a simple, consistent three-step approach to each of the activities (set induction, investigation, and resolution).

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: Safety in the Classroom	xiii
The Methods	1	(7)
Process-Content	1	(1)
Inquiry	2	(1)
The Role of the Textbook in the Classroom	2	(1)
What is a Discrepant Event?	3	(1)
How to Use Discrepant Events to Promote Process and Inquiry	4	(3)
How to Use This Book	7	(1)
Teaching Children about the Characteristics of Matter	8	(22)
Classifying Matter	8	(1)
Democritus and the Atom	9	(1)
Inside the Atom	10	(1)
Terms	11	(1)
Spaces between Molecules	12	(3)
Molecular Motion	15	(2)
The Phases (or States) of Matter	17	(5)
Changes in Matter	22	(1)
Adhesion	23	(2)
Cohesion	25	(5)
Teaching Children about Heat Energy	30	(21)
Measuring Heat and Temperature	30	(3)
Heat of Fusion and Heat of Vaporization	33	(2)
Sources of Heat	35	(2)
Conduction	37	(3)
Convection	40	(2)
Radiation	42	(1)
Expansion and Contraction	43	(4)
Fire	47	(2)
Slow Oxidation	49	(2)
Teaching Children about Static Electricity	51	(11)
From Amber to Electrons	51	(1)
Charged Objects Attract Uncharged Objects	52	(3)
Like Charges Repel	55	(3)
Unlike Charges Attract	58	(1)
Charging by Induction	59	(1)
How to Build an Electroscope	60	(2)
Teaching Children about Magnetism	62	(9)
From Lodestones to Domains	62	(1)
What Do Magnets Attract?	63	(2)
Magnetism Is a Force	65	(2)
Attraction and Repulsion	67	(2)
Temporary and Permanent Magnets	69	(2)
Teaching Children about Current Electricity	71	(15)
The Discovery of Current Electricity	71	(1)
What is Current Electricity	72	(2)
Sources of Electricity	74	(3)
Circuits	77	(5)
Uses of Electricity	82	(2)
Things to Make	84	(2)
Teaching Children about Sound	86	(20)
What is Sound?	86	(2)
How Does Sound Travel?	88	(6)
The Speed of Sound	94	(3)
Volume (Loudness)	97	(3)
Pitch	100	(3)
Music	103	(3)
Teaching Children about Light, Lenses, and Color	106	(23)
What is Light?	106	(5)
Brightness of Light	111	(1)
Light Can Be Reflected	112	(3)
Light Can Be Refracted	115	(7)
Color	122	(4)
Optical Illusions	126	(3)
Teaching Children about Air and Air Pressure	129	(14)
Air Is a Real Substance and Occupies Space	129	(4)
Air Exerts Pressure	133	(5)
Air Expands and Contracts	138	(5)
Teaching Children about Weather and Climate	143	(17)
What Is Weather? What Is Climate?	143	(1)
Convection Currents	144	(6)
The Water Cycle	150	(6)
The Seasons	156	(4)
Teaching Children about Flight Through the Air	160	(11)
Forces of Flight	160	(5)
Streamlining for Speed	165	(1)
How Airplanes Are Controlled	166	(2)
Supersonic Flight	168	(3)
Teaching Children about Space Science	171	(15)
From Firecrackers to Spaceflight	171	(1)
Power for Flight	172	(3)
Gravity and Inertia	175	(6)
Trajectories, Orbits, and Reentry	181	(3)
Astronauts in Space	184	(2)
Teaching Children about the Sun, Moon, and Stars	186	(13)
Concepts of Number, Size, and Distance	186	(6)
The Earth and Moon	192	(7)
Teaching Children about the Earth (Geology)	199	(16)
The Structure of the Earth	199	(1)
Surface Features of the Earth	200	(2)
Rocks and Minerals	202	(4)
Weathering and Erosion	206	(4)
Soils	210	(5)
Teaching Children about the Oceans	215	(14)
Why Turn to the Ocean?	215	(4)
The Motions of the Oceans	219	(7)
Living under the Sea	226	(3)
Teaching Children about Plants and Fungi	229	(14)
Seeds	229	(5)
Seedless Reproduction of Plants	234	(1)
The Parts of a Plant	235	(4)
Other Forms of Life	239	(4)
Teaching Children about Animals	243	(14)
Animals with Backbones	243	(7)
Adaptations of Nature	250	(3)
Insects	253	(3)
Insect Cages and Collections	256	(1)
Teaching Children about Nutrition and Health	257	(19)
Cell Growth	257	(1)
Growth Rates	258	(2)
Food Tests and Tastes	260	(2)
Foods and Diets	262	(14)
Teaching Children about Fitness: The Heart, Lungs, and Muscles	276	(18)
What is Fitness?	276	(1)
Measuring Fitness	276	(3)
The Heart and Circulatory System	279	(4)
Lungs and Respiration	283	(3)
Muscles, Bones, and Skin	286	(3)
Effect of Tobacco on the Body	289	(5)
Teaching Children about Energy, Environment, and Pollution	294	(23)
What Is Energy?	294	(2)
How Opinions Change	296	(3)
Energy Use in the United States	299	(2)
Nuclear Energy	301	(3)
Radiation	304	(6)
Conservation	310	(7)
Glossary	317	(10)
Index	327