RETURN TO SEARCH RESULTS

TEACHER'S GUIDE: SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS BY THE HUNDREDS

Author(s): Julia H Cothron , Richard J Rezba , Ronald N Giese

Edition: 3

Copyright: 2009

Pages: 346

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The new edition includes nanotechnology experiments for every chapter. Students will be introduced to and develop an understanding for this revolutionary science used in many of today's products.

This teacher's guide for the student book, Science Experiments by the Hundreds, provides teachers with help information for classroom use. With this program, teachers can help students turn their interests into their own original experiments by teaching the fundamentals of inquiry skills.

Each chapter provides:

  • Teaching tips
  • Assessment techniques, including student checklists and teacher rating sheets
  • National Science and Mathematics Connections
  • Student objectives
  • Student experiments for classwork or homework
  • Equipment and materials lists


For more information about the student book, click here.

For additional ideas for teaching inquiry skills of experimental design and data analysis, visit Students and Research.

Introduction

Letter to Students

Chapter 1 Conducting Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connection
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 2 Refining Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 3 Analyzing Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 4 Finding Project Ideas
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Interest Inventory
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 5 Brainstorming Project Ideas
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 6 Exploring a Project Idea
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 7 Writing Procedures
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Assessment

Chapter 8 Experimenting Safely
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials

Chapter 9 Recording Data
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 10 Constructing Bar Graphs
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 11 Constructing Line Graphs
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 12 Writing an Experimental Report
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment

Chapter 13 Making Stem-and-Leaf Plots
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 14 Making Boxplots or Box and Whisker Diagrams
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 15 Presenting Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials

Glossary
Appendix A: Using Style Manuals
Appendix B: Conducting Interviews
Appendix C: Expanding an Introduction
Index 

Julia H Cothron
Julia H. Cothron, Ed.D. has worked with middle and high school teachers to create effective strategies for developing students’ research skills and has served as a mentor to thousands of students and teachers. During her “official career,” she taught middle and senior high students, led the Hanover County (VA) Public Schools’ science and general secondary programs, served as the Executive Director of the MathScience Innovation Center in Richmond, Virginia, and taught numerous workshops and courses for K-12 teachers. Now retired, she maintains her active involvement with STEM education and serves on the boards of the Virginia Mathematics & Science Coalition, Virginia Association of Science Teachers, and Virginia Junior Academy of Science. Her commitment to student research is based upon her high school research experience, which inspired her to become a science educator.
Richard J Rezba
Richard J. Rezba, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus of science education at Virginia Commonwealth University where he worked with elementary and secondary teachers to develop instructional strategies in science that are challenging and fun. His research interests include parental involvement, student experimentation, and assessment. Dr. Rezba directed several projects that involved the infusion of various forms of instructional technology into the teaching and learning of science.
Ronald N Giese
Ronald N. Giese, Ed.D. is a professor emeritus of science education at The College of William and Mary; he has worked with both pre-service and in-service teachers to develop strategies for generating research topics and to implement science fairs that maximize student learning. Dr. Giese has served as a consultant to Scholastic Science World, to the Naturalist Center at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and to numerous school systems, museums, and science curricular projects.

The new edition includes nanotechnology experiments for every chapter. Students will be introduced to and develop an understanding for this revolutionary science used in many of today's products.

This teacher's guide for the student book, Science Experiments by the Hundreds, provides teachers with help information for classroom use. With this program, teachers can help students turn their interests into their own original experiments by teaching the fundamentals of inquiry skills.

Each chapter provides:

  • Teaching tips
  • Assessment techniques, including student checklists and teacher rating sheets
  • National Science and Mathematics Connections
  • Student objectives
  • Student experiments for classwork or homework
  • Equipment and materials lists


For more information about the student book, click here.

For additional ideas for teaching inquiry skills of experimental design and data analysis, visit Students and Research.

Introduction

Letter to Students

Chapter 1 Conducting Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connection
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 2 Refining Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 3 Analyzing Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 4 Finding Project Ideas
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Interest Inventory
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 5 Brainstorming Project Ideas
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 6 Exploring a Project Idea
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 7 Writing Procedures
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Assessment

Chapter 8 Experimenting Safely
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials

Chapter 9 Recording Data
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 10 Constructing Bar Graphs
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 11 Constructing Line Graphs
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 12 Writing an Experimental Report
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment

Chapter 13 Making Stem-and-Leaf Plots
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 14 Making Boxplots or Box and Whisker Diagrams
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials
Answers to Practice Problems
Assessment and Answers

Chapter 15 Presenting Experiments
Teacher Materials
Standards Connections
Student Objectives
Equipment and Materials
Teaching Tips
Student Materials

Glossary
Appendix A: Using Style Manuals
Appendix B: Conducting Interviews
Appendix C: Expanding an Introduction
Index 

Julia H Cothron
Julia H Cothron
Julia H. Cothron, Ed.D. has worked with middle and high school teachers to create effective strategies for developing students’ research skills and has served as a mentor to thousands of students and teachers. During her “official career,” she taught middle and senior high students, led the Hanover County (VA) Public Schools’ science and general secondary programs, served as the Executive Director of the MathScience Innovation Center in Richmond, Virginia, and taught numerous workshops and courses for K-12 teachers. Now retired, she maintains her active involvement with STEM education and serves on the boards of the Virginia Mathematics & Science Coalition, Virginia Association of Science Teachers, and Virginia Junior Academy of Science. Her commitment to student research is based upon her high school research experience, which inspired her to become a science educator.
Richard J Rezba
Richard J Rezba
Richard J. Rezba, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus of science education at Virginia Commonwealth University where he worked with elementary and secondary teachers to develop instructional strategies in science that are challenging and fun. His research interests include parental involvement, student experimentation, and assessment. Dr. Rezba directed several projects that involved the infusion of various forms of instructional technology into the teaching and learning of science.
Ronald N Giese
Ronald N Giese
Ronald N. Giese, Ed.D. is a professor emeritus of science education at The College of William and Mary; he has worked with both pre-service and in-service teachers to develop strategies for generating research topics and to implement science fairs that maximize student learning. Dr. Giese has served as a consultant to Scholastic Science World, to the Naturalist Center at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and to numerous school systems, museums, and science curricular projects.