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This is a book of inspiring stories for the twenty-first century of creative science teaching at elementary, middle, secondary, and university levels.
List of contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jack Hassard
Introduction: The Cheshire Cat's Grin
Part I: Paradigm Lost
Chapter One: Descartes' Dream
Chapter Two: Complicated Truths
Chapter Three: Discipline Diversity
Chapter Four: Menacing Mudflats
Part II: Playful Exploration
Chapter Five: Wavy Elephants
Chapter Six: Binary Banjos
Chapter Seven: Harmful Haste
Chapter Eight: Serious Whimsy
Chapter Nine: Salted Alcohol
Chapter Ten: Squirrel Tales
Part III: Aesthetic Expression
Chapter Eleven: Skull sockets
Chapter Twelve: Crowned Molars
Chapter Thirteen: Hell's Pig
Chapter Fourteen: Vivid Canyons
Chapter Fifteen: Fossil Imagery
Chapter Sixteen: Inspiring Invertebrates
Chapter Seventeen: Clawed Wings
Chapter Eighteen: Pesky Pillbugs
Chapter Nineteen: Flashy Plumage
Part IV: Conceptual Coherence
Chapter Twenty: Poetic Rocks
Chapter Twenty-one: Vast Moments
Chapter Twenty-two: Storied Geology
Part V: Community Purpose
Chapter Twenty-three: Simple Automata
Chapter Twenty-four: Egg Balloons
Chapter Twenty-five: Competing Forecasts
Chapter Twenty-six: Wicked Extinctions
Chapter Twenty-seven: Harvesting Oysters
Chapter Twenty-eight: Caring Communities
Conclusion: Paradigm's Progress
Index
About the author
Charles R. Ault, Jr. (“Kip”), professor emeritus, Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling, coordinated the school’s Master of Arts in Teaching program for science teachers for more than two decades. Kip began his career teaching primary grades and middle school science in Connecticut and Colorado. Author of Do Elephants Have Knees? and Challenging Science Standards, his writing reflects an interest in paleontology and the value of subject diversity in the reform of school science.
Summary
This is a book of inspiring stories for the twenty-first century of creative science teaching at elementary, middle, secondary, and university levels.
