Teaching Science With Everyday Things

by Schmidt, Victor E.; Rockcastle, Verne N.

• ISBN13: 9780787278175
• ISBN10: 0787278173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-30
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(2)
In Explanation	3	(3)
Points of View	6	(11)
Science and Children	6	(1)
Teaching Science	6	(1)
Everyday Things	7	(1)
Growth of a Concept	8	(1)
Sequencing Concepts	9	(1)
Objectives and Outcomes	10	(1)
Planned Programs	11	(1)
Direct Experience	11	(1)
Student Participation	12	(1)
Discovery through Experiment	12	(1)
Leisurely Learning	13	(1)
Means of Motivating	14	(1)
Keeping Records	14	(1)
Repeated Trials	15	(1)
Labels That Limit	16	(1)
Measuring and Estimating	17	(23)
Meaningful Measures	18	(2)
Liters, Quarts and Such	20	(1)
Taller or Wider?	20	(1)
Squeeze Play	21	(1)
Weight vs. Mass	22	(1)
Equal-arm Balances	23	(2)
Triple-can Balance	25	(1)
Unequal-arm Balance	25	(2)
Swinging Second-timer	27	(1)
Pendulum Predictions	28	(1)
Wheel Measure	29	(1)
Surveying with Strings	30	(2)
A ``Weigh'' to Find Area	32	(1)
Estimating from a Sample	33	(1)
An Environmental Sample	34	(1)
Bounce Height	35	(1)
Microscope Slide Micrometer	36	(1)
Estimating Leaf Area	37	(1)
Faster, Faster!	38	(2)
Air and Weather	40	(26)
Bag of Air	41	(1)
Empty or Full?	42	(1)
Wee Breezes	43	(2)
Air Weight	45	(1)
Air Push	45	(2)
Whence the Wind?	47	(1)
Measuring Wind Speed	48	(1)
Giving Teacher a Lift	49	(2)
Bottle Barometer	51	(1)
Sloshing Air	52	(1)
Downhill Draft	53	(1)
One-gallon Cloud	54	(1)
Thunderstorm Paths	55	(1)
Raindrop Records	56	(2)
Rainfall Magnifier	58	(1)
Little Climates	59	(2)
Snow Compasses	61	(1)
Where the Rafters Are	62	(1)
Bridge Freezes before Road Surface!	63	(1)
www.weather.com	64	(2)
Plants and Animals	66	(32)
An ``Amazoo''	67	(1)
Fish-less Aquariums	68	(1)
The Better to See With	69	(2)
Muscle Teams	71	(1)
South for the Winter	72	(1)
The Laws of Jaws	73	(1)
Layers in Logs `n' Bats	74	(2)
By Special Arrangement	76	(1)
Limb Lift	77	(1)
Sticky Traps	78	(2)
Folded Wings	80	(1)
Weed-seed Surplus	81	(1)
Green Factory	82	(2)
Living Fuzz	84	(1)
Sanitation Squad	85	(1)
That Depends!	86	(2)
What's in a Bird Nest?	88	(1)
How Many Miles for a Nest?	89	(1)
Temperature Crickets	90	(2)
The Right Sort	92	(2)
Keeping Track	94	(1)
Flying Tigers	95	(1)
From Flower to Fruit	96	(2)
Water and Other Liquids	98	(14)
Liquid Lift	99	(1)
Diving Dropper	100	(1)
Holey Scow	101	(1)
Orange-peel Mist	102	(1)
``Thick'' and ``Thin'' Liquids	103	(1)
Vapor Push	104	(1)
Beneath the Suds	105	(1)
Ladder for Liquids	106	(1)
Capillary Curve	107	(1)
Plane Water?	108	(1)
Water from Nowhere	109	(1)
Lots of Heat, But Not Hot!	110	(2)
Powders and Solutions	112	(14)
Invisible Ink	112	(1)
Lead Pencils	113	(1)
Flame Life	114	(1)
Flame Killer	115	(1)
Chemical Clues	116	(1)
Super Solution	117	(1)
Invisible Solution	118	(1)
One in a Million	119	(1)
Bubbles from Nowhere	120	(1)
Dough Raiser	121	(1)
Acid or Alkaline?	122	(1)
Litmus Test	123	(1)
There's Copper in That Solution!	124	(2)
Rocks and the Land	126	(114)
Some Important Objectives	126	(3)
Pebble Jar	129	(1)
Brick Pebbles	129	(1)
Sized Stones	130	(1)
Sorted Stones	131	(1)
Mudpile Mountain	132	(1)
Mud-puddle Stories	133	(94)
Shadow Detective	227	(2)
Seeing into ``Hidden'' Places	229	(1)
Surprise in a Mirror	230	(1)
Seeing Double	231	(1)
Cardboard-carton Camera	232	(1)
Weird Words	233	(2)
Shaving Mirror Image	235	(1)
Principal Peeker	236	(1)
Where IS the Fish?	237	(1)
Space Signals	238	(1)
Best ``See'' in the House!	239	(1)
Heat and Temperature	240	(14)
Heat vs. Temperature	240	(2)
Heat Traps	242	(1)
Heat Travel	242	(1)
Curtain-rod Bridge	243	(1)
Heat from Friction	244	(1)
Shrinking and Swelling Air	245	(1)
Paper Pot	246	(1)
Heat Mixtures	247	(1)
Burning Calories	248	(1)
Wasted Watts	249	(1)
Keep a Cube! Melt a Cube!	250	(1)
Ice Glass of Water	251	(1)
Lots of Heat, but Not Hot!	252	(2)
Sun, Moon, and Stars	254	(16)
Some Important Objectives	254	(2)
Creeping Shadows	256	(1)
Sunset Place	257	(1)
Shadow Curves	258	(1)
Sunlit Earth	258	(1)
Daytime Moon	259	(1)
Moon Motions	260	(1)
Earth-Moon Model	261	(1)
Star Shifts	262	(1)
Star Pictures	263	(1)
North-Star Light	264	(1)
Hometown Latitude	265	(1)
Circum-Sun Run	266	(2)
Sky Wanderers	268	(2)
Index	270