Trends in Elementary Science Education

Many elementary school teachers, the proverbial jacks-of-all-trades, face a trio of issues when it comes to teaching science: they don't like science, they don't feel confident in their knowledge of science, and they don't know how to teach science effectively...

Various forces both from within education (such as NCLB) and from without (such as global competition) are combining to give a new push to K–12 science education reform. Through the practice of inquiry-based science, a reform promoted by National Science Education Standards, even young students can learn about the authentic enterprise of science: reasoning based on evidence from the natural world.

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