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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Hauptverfasser: National Research Council (U.S.). committee on how people learn, a targeted report for teachers, Donovan, Suzanne M., Bransford, John D.
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC National Acad. Press u.a 2005
National Academies Press
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The National Academies Press
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ISBN:0309089484, 9780309089487, 0309074339, 0309089492, 9780309089500, 9780309074339, 0309089506, 9780309089494
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  • 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