Science+Readings

Read: [|HelpingSsUnderstandNOS.pdf] & [|UnderstandingTrueMeaningofNOS.pdf] Or Read [|TheNOSChallenge.pdf]
 * Week 2 - Inquiry and the Nature of Science**

Choose one of the following articles to read from NSTA's website from the Science & Children Magazine. Search for the title of the article. Fire up the Inquiry by Kimberly Lott, March 2011 The Many Levels of Inquiry by Heather Banchi & Randy Bell, October 2008
 * Week 3 - Planning an Inquiry Lesson**

Choose one of the following articles to read from NSTA's website from the Science & Children Magazine. Search for the title of the article. A is For Assessment by Shannon McNair, September 2004 Seamless Assessment by Mark Volkmann & Sandra Abell, May 2003
 * Week 4 - Assessment**


 * Week 5 - Scientific Skills and Dispositions**
 * Each member of your table group should select a different article to read**
 * 1) Activities that Really Measure Up, by Lorraine Smith, Donna Sterling, & Patricia Moyer-Packenham, October 2006
 * 2) Beyond Predictions, by Dennis Smithenry & Jenny Kim, October 2010
 * 3) Inference or Observation? by Kevin Finson, October 2010
 * 4) Making Thinking Visible, by Roxanne Greitz Miller & Robert C. Calfee, December 2004
 * 5) Personalized Inquiry, by Patricia Simpson, December 2010

Select two of the following articles to read. If you are "sharing" articles with others please give them different articles to read so we can share from multiple articles.
 * Week 6 - Extensions within and Beyond the Classroom (completed for Week 8)**
 * 1) Get "Em Outside, by Lisa Weise, March 2012
 * 2) A Transforming Partnership, by Susan Black, January 2006
 * 3) Journey into the Five Senses, by Susan McWilliams, February 2003
 * 4) Science Alive!, by Kay Tally-Foos, January 2005
 * 5) Simple Machines in the Community, by Robert Bryan,Aris Laroder, Deborah Tippins, Meliza (Melai) Emaz, and Ryan Fox, March 2008
 * 6) Take the Science Fair Online, by James Tubbs, December 2007
 * 7) The Built Environment, by Gregory Benedis-Grab, February 2010
 * 8) The Farmer in the Lab, by Jeanine Huss and Cheryl Baker, February 2010

Select one of the following articles to read
 * For Week 7 - Science for Diverse Learners (completed for meeting on April 4)**
 * 1) Girls in Science Rule! by Jan Moore, April 2003
 * 2) Science Centers For All, by Leslie Irwin, Christine Nucci, & Carol, Beckett, February 2003
 * 3) Teaching Science to English-as Second-Language-Learners, by Gayle Buck, November/December 2000