Giverny Book Award 2002
Louisiana State University Award for "Best Children's Science Picture Book"

NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children
National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council.awards.

NSTA Recommends
Reviews of outstanding science materials

Reference Books
Barr, Catherine & Gillespie, John T. (2006). Best Books for Children. Libraries Unlimited, Westport: Connecticut.

Matthew, Kathryn I. & Lowe, Joy L. (2002). Guide to Recommended Children’s Books and Media for Use with Every Elementary Subject. Neal-Schuman Publishers, New York.

1. Teacher Reference
The Teacher reference collection at the CRC contains several curriculum books, lesson plans, and activity manuals for elementary and secondary science instruction. Search in the ATAS online catalog for a science subject and limit the search to materials found in the Curriculum Resources Center. Look for items which have the call number designation ‘T Ref’.

2. Science Instructional Materials
The CRC acquires science materials and manipulatives for use by WU education students, student teachers, area schools, home-schoolers, etc. Items such as microscopes, models, scales, pulleys, FOSS™ Inquiry Science Kits, skeletons, videos, planetariums, etc. can be checked out. To search for ‘IM’s, use the ATLAS online catalog.

3. Textbooks
The CRC collects recent and representative textbooks in major subject areas. Use the ATLAS online catalog to search for particular titles, publishers, etc. or browse in the textbook room.

Periodicals are found in three places: online, at the CRC and at Mabee Library. There are several types of periodicals, ranging from children’s magazines to professional journals to scholarly/peer reviewed journals. To learn more about identifying scholarly journals click here.

1. ERIC
* Education Resources Information Center
* Major tool for searching education journals and trade journals
* One of the most comprehensive (millions of citations- 1966 to present)
* Includes journal research, teacher guides & lesson plans, government reports
* SOME full text

2. Education: Sage Full-Text Collection
* 26 Peer reviewed education journals all published by Sage & affiliates
*1966 to present
*8,000 Articles
* Educational Theory and Research Topics
* Entirely Full-Text

3. Education Index
* Indexing from 1983+, Abstracting from 1994+, and SOME full-text from 1996+
*100's of journals
* Much of ERIC's content and 79 extra journals
* Educational theory and research topics

4. SIRS Discoverer
* Children's (k-12) database
* Non-fiction children's magazine articles

"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research." (from About Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html )

Google Scholar Powerpoint Presentation

For more information on links to standards visit the STANDARDS page on the CRC homepage.

1. Kraus Curriculum Development Library
* The KCDL is a searchable database of curricula, frameworks, and standards that brings together educational objectives, content, instructional strategies, and evaluative techniques for all subjects covered in prek-12 and Adult Basic Education.
(Available from the Mabee Library Electronic Databases Web page.

2. Kansas State Board of Education Science Standards
* 2005 and 2001 Science standards
http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/sciencestd.html

3. FOSStm Kit Correlations to National and State Standards
http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/foss/scope/correlations/index.html

LESSON PLANS

* FOSStm Inquiry Lesson Plans http://www.fossweb.com/index.php
* North Carolina State U. Science Lesson Plans http://ncsu.edu/imse/4/lessons.htm
* Mid-continent Research for Education & Learning (MCREL) Lesson Plans
http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/science/index.asp
* Elizabeth LaRosa’s Middle School Science Lessons http://www.middleschoolscience.com/

TEACHER RESOURCES

NWREL Inquiry Science Articles http://www.nwrel.org/msec/science_inq/4traits.html
http://www.nwrel.org/msec/science_inq/answers.html

Tretter, T.R. and M.G. Jones (2003) Relationships between inquiry-based teaching and physical science standardized test scores. School Science and Math 103 (7) Nov 2003.

Wise, K.C. (1996) Strategies for Teaching Science: What Works? The Clearing House v 69, pp. 337-8 July/Aug ’96.

Chang, C&S. Mao (1999). Comparison of Taiwan Science Students’ Outcomes with inquiry-Group Versus Traditional Instruction. The Journal of Educational Research (Washington, D.C.) v 92 no 6 pp 340-6 July/Aug 1999.

Ball, D. L. (1988). The subject matter preparation of prospective
mathematics teachers: Challenging the myths (Research report 88-3),
East Lansing: Michigan State University, The National Center for
Research on Teacher Education.

Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, 2001. The Mathematical
Education of Teachers. Providence, RI: Mathematical Association of
America.

Fennema, E. & Franke, M. L. (1992). Teachers’ knowledge and its impact.
Mathematics Teaching, 147-163.

Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of mind. New York: Basic Books.

Hunter, M. (1994) Mastery Teaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.

McDiarmid, G. W., & Ball, D. L. (1988). “Many moons”: Understanding
teacher learning from a teacher education perspective (Issue
Paper 88-5), East Lansing: Michigan State University, The National
Center for Research on Teacher Education.

Ma, L. (1999). Knowing and teaching elementary mathematics. Mahwah,
New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Mathematical Association of America. (1991) A Call for Change:
Recommendations for the Mathematical Preparation of Teachers of
Mathematics. Washington, DC: MAA.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (1989) Curriculum and
Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. Reston, VA.: NCTM.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (2000) Principles and
Standards for School Mathematics. Reston, VA: NCTM.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. (1991) Professional
Standards for Teaching Mathematics. Reston, VA: NCTM.

National Research Council. (1996) National Science Education
Standards. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

Shulman, L. S., (1987) Those who understand: Knowledge growth in
teaching. Educational Researcher, 15:4-14.



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