Product Overview
What do you get when you bring together two of NSTAs bestselling authors to ponder ways to deepen students conceptual understanding of science? A fascinating combination of deep thinking about science teaching, field-tested strategies you can use in your classroom immediately, and personal vignettes all educators can relate to and apply themselves.
Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Scienceis by Richard Konicek-Moran, a researcher and professor who wrote theEveryday Science Mysteriesseries, and Page Keeley, a practitioner and teacher educator who writes theUncovering Student Ideas in Scienceseries. Written in an appealing, conversational style, this new book
- explores where science education has been and where its going;
- emphasizes how knowing the history and nature of science can help you engage in teaching for conceptual understanding and conceptual change;
- stresses the importance of formative assessment as a pathway to conceptual change; and
- provides a bridge between research and practice.
This is the kind of thought-provoking book that can truly change the way you teach. Whether you read each chapter in sequence or start by browsing the topics in the vignettes, Konicek-Moran and Keeley will make you thinkreally thinkabout the major goal of science education in the 21st century: to help students understand science at the conceptual level so they can see its connections to other fields, other concepts, and their own lives.
