Textbooks and Other Class Resources

Quick links to material below: 
    Required Texts for Earth System Science II
    Textbooks from Earth System Science I
    Academic Content Standards and Proficiency Testing
    The Full Option Science System (FOSS)

Required Texts for Earth System Science II

We will use a combination of science content resources and pedagogy resources for this course.  The following texts are required.  Used copies may be available through major booksellers online. 

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The Art of Teaching Science: Inquiry and Innovation in Middle School and High School, by Jack Hassard, Oxford University Press, 2005.  Softcover ISBN: 0-19-515533-5.
 

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Understanding by Design, 2nd Edition, by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2005.  Softcover ISBN: 1-4166-0035-3.

Textbooks from Earth System Science I

We will also occasionally make use of the textbooks from last term.

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The Earth System, 2nd Edition, by Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, and Robert G. Crane, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, 2004.  Softcover ISBN: 0-13-142059-3.
 

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Teaching Science in Elementary and Middle School Classrooms: A Project-Based Approach, 2nd Edition, by Joseph S. Krajcik, Charlene .M. Czerniak, and Carl .F. Berger,McGraw Hill, 2003.  Softcover ISBN: 0-07-248674-0.

Academic Content Standards and Proficiency Testing

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National Science Education Standards: Observe, Interact, Change, Learn, by the National Research Council, Published by the National Academy Press, 1996.  Softcover ISBN: 0-309-05326-9.  Click here to access online.

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Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning, by the National Research Council, Published by the National Academy Press, 2000.  Softcover ISBN: 0-309-06476-7.  Click here to access online.

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Ohio Academic Content Standards, http://www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/

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Ohio Graduation Test (9th Grade Proficiency Exam), http://www.ode.state.oh.us/proficiency/OGT/default.asp, also see http://www.ode.state.oh.us/proficiency/ogt/PDFs/S_Test_Sampler_%20final%206_25_2004.pdf for a sample of science questions from this exam.

The Full Option Science System (FOSS)

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Web resources for the FOSS curriculum,  http://www.fossweb.com/
 

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Description of FOSS, http://lhsfoss.org/index.html
 

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FOSS correlations to national science education standards for grades 5-8,
http://lhsfoss.org/scope/correlations/pdfs/NSES5-8_1.31.05.pdf

 

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FOSS correlation to Ohio science education standards for grades K-9,
http://www.delta-education.com/science/foss/correlations/Ohio.pdf