Science Education for Everyday Life: Evidence-based Practice
This book provides a comprehensive overview of humanistic approaches to science—approaches that connect students to broader human concerns in their everyday life and culture. Author summarizes major worldwide historical findings, focuses on present thinking, and offers evidence in support of classroom practice. This highly accessible text covers curriculum policy, teaching materials, teacher orientations and teacher education, student learning, culture studies, and future research.
Encyclopedia of Earth and Space Science (Science Encyclopedia)
The new, two-volume Encyclopedia of Earth and Space Science is the perfect complement to the material typically taught in high school and college Earth science and astronomy classes. Based on the NSES Content Standards, this comprehensive new reference emphasizes the physical processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Earth and universe, describes many examples of different types of geological and astrophysical phenomena, provides historical perspectives, and gives insight into the process of scientific inquiry...
Discover is a science magazine that publishes articles about science for a general audience. The monthly magazine was launched in October 1980 by Time Inc. Discover was originally launched into a burgeoning market for science magazines aimed at educated non-professionals, intended to be somewhat easier to read than Scientific American but more detailed and science-oriented than magazines like Popular Science. Discover was left largely alone in its market space by the mid-1980s, but nevertheless decided to appeal to a wider audience, including more articles on psychology and psychiatry.
Science, a multi disciplinary, weekly peer reviewed journal, ranks as the world's most prestigious scientific journal. The journal was established by Thomas Edison in 1880 and has been the official journal of AAAS since 1900. Content includes original research, news, book reviews, and coverage of events in the scientific community.