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Nurturing and Sustaining Effective Programs in Science Education for Grades K-8

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This summary provides a narrative, rather than a chronological, overview of the presentations and the ensuing rich discussions that permeated the convocation. It brings together into individual chapter’s themes that were raised and recurred throughout the event.
• Chapter 1, The Challenges Facing California, focuses on intro- ductory remarks that set the theme and the tone for the entire convocation about the multitude of challenges that are currently besetting science education in California, especially attempts to educate children in Grades K-8. • Chapter 2, The National Context, describes presentations and dis- cussion that helped to frame the current environment in California with concerns and science education initiatives nationally. • Members of the organizing group were concerned that some participants might never have experienced hands-on, inquiry-based approaches to science education. Thus, part of the morning of Day 1 was devoted to demonstrations of such approaches with ele- mentary school children from Orange County. Chapter 3, Science Education in Action, describes these activities. • Chapter 4, Exemplary Programs, focuses on presentations from Day 1 about three programs for K-8 science education considered by the organizing group to be exemplary based on evidence that has been systematically collected from their inception.

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: ., 2009

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1-155

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English

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978-0-309-14366-0

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