"Let's Be Scientists!" takes a novel approach by identifying the skills that practicing scientists use and then providing a framework for teachers to integrate these skills into their classrooms. Using the book, teachers will learn how to lead students through scientific investigations and how to encourage debate, collaboration, and communication-all without sacrificing content. With numerous easy-to-understand examples and reproducible forms, this book provides teachers what they need to build an exciting science classroom. In the end, classrooms will become science labs, and students will become junior scientists, practicing science in the most authentic manner possible.

Let's Be Scientists!: Authentic Learning in the Science Classroom

Education & Teaching

Heilbronner, Nancy

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press

Every day, students encounter countless data-gathering opportunities that present the potential for creating new knowledge. Think Data: Getting Kids Involved in Hands-On Investigations With Data-Gathering Instruments introduces data-gathering instruments such as a blood pressure monitor, pH strips, a salt monitor, and a pedometer; the types of data they can gather; and what kinds of questions analyzing that data can answer. This resource is the ultimate guidebook for helping students engage in investigative learning. Reproducible student activity sheets introduce 12 inexpensive, easy-to-find instruments and guide students through the process of setting up and performing experiments in which they will collect and analyze data. A further step asks students to develop ways to share their data and put it to use. Here the data comes alive in the real world!

Think Data: Getting Kids Involved in Hands-On Investigations with Data-Gathering Instruments

Renzulli Ph.D., Joseph

This book offers a different perspective on parenting gifted children: what not to do. Most books for parents of gifted youngsters focus on what adults should be doing, but not many hone in on how inadvertently we push our children to be more "normal," or more "reasonable," or even, sometimes, more exceptional. The author takes common mistakes that parents make (mistakes that even she admits to making with her own children) and discusses why these are harmful to gifted children, and she offers better, healthier approaches that will help gifted children become comfortable with who they are and strive to be all that they are capable of being.
As a bonus, one of the author's three now-adult children has written a postscript to each chapter, discussing what it was like to be a gifted child dealing with the particular issue at hand. This additional insight is an enlightening and invaluable part of understanding gifted children.

10 Things Not to Say to Your Gifted Child: One Family's Perspective

Parenting & Relationships

Heilbronner Munoz, Jennifer

Heilbronner, Sarah

Parenting

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