Explore-Before-Explain Guidebook for Science Education - Creating High Quality Lessons for Classroom Professional Learning

This guidebook uses an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to help you facilitate the design of active meaning-making lessons in science.

List of contents

Exploring Active Meaning Making 1. What Does Explore-before-Explain Look Like in Practice? 2. Rethinking Learning 3. Exploring Sinking and Floating 4. How Can We Make Science Learning Remarkable? 5. Planning Engaging and Effective Science Lessons 6. Exploring Fall Time 7. Applying Active Meaning Making and Explore-before-Explain to Practice 8. A New Mindset to Teaching 9. Leading Change Conclusions

About the author

Patrick Brown is the executive director of STEAM and career education for the Fort Zumwalt School District in St. Charles, Missouri.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brown, Brown Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032957166
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295716-6
• No. of pages: 134
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Professional Development, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Curricula, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching staff, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching skills & techniques, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Science & Technology, Teaching staff / Educators