How students learn History, mathematics, and the science in the classroom

How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on...

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Main Authors: National Research Council (U.S.). committee on how people learn, a targeted report for teachers, Donovan, Suzanne M., Bransford, John D.
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC National Acad. Press u.a 2005
National Academies Press
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The National Academies Press
Edition:1
Subjects:
Aufsatzsammlung
Class Activities
Classroom management
Curriculum Development
Curriculum planning
Elementary School Curriculum
Geschichtsunterricht
History Instruction
Learning
Learning Processes
Learning, Psychology of
Mathematics Instruction
Mathematikunterricht
Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
primary school mathematics
primary school science
Science Experiments
Science Instruction
Scientific Principles
Secondary School Curriculum
secondary school mathematics
secondary school science
ISBN:0309089484, 9780309089487, 0309074339, 0309089492, 9780309089500, 9780309074339, 0309089506, 9780309089494
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Table of Contents:
  • FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I HISTORY -- 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History -- 3 Putting Principles into Practice: Teaching and Planning -- 4 "They Thought the World Was Flat?" Applying the Principles of How People Learn in Teaching High School History -- Part II MATHEMATICS -- 5 Mathematical Understanding: An Introduction -- 6 Fostering the Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the Primary Grades -- 7 Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New Approaches to Teaching the Rational-Number System -- 8 Teaching and Learning Functions -- Part III SCIENCE -- 9 Scientific Inquiry and How People Learn -- 10 Teaching to Promote the Development of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at the Elementary School Level -- 11 Guided Inquiry in the Science Classroom -- 12 Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry -- A FINAL SYNTHESIS: REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES -- 13 Pulling Threads -- Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors -- Index