Teaching Science ® 1997

Chip Bruce* Professor, Curriculum & Instruction

• Helping children learn science
• Sense-making
• • Constructing meaning
  • The inquiry process
  • Learning from children
  • The individual and society

• Teaching
• • Real stuff
  • Real talk
  • Knowing science
  • Becoming a teacher
• The classroom environment
• • Why is science often neglected in classrooms?
  • Engaging in inquiry
  • Using technology for teaching and learning
  • Characteristics of supportive learning environments
• Some classroom methods
• • Messing about
  • Partner talk
  • Predict-Observe-Explain
• Stories about teaching and learning science
• Other resources

*I'd like to thank David Brown, Susan Bruce, Elizabeth Easley, Inga Karliner, Jim Levin, Margery Osborne, and Michael Weissman for helpful suggestions on this site.

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If you have any suggestions for this page, please send them to chip@uiuc.edu. I'd especially like to add stories about teaching and learning science.

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December 5, 2001

Chip Bruce Email: chip@uiuc.edu