James Bellanca
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Science alive!
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Founder of the International Renewal Institute, Executive Director of the Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools and a Senior Fellow for the Partnership for 21st Century Schools is a former high school teacher, intermediate service center director, professional developer and author who specializes in the practical side of deeper learning and 21st Century Skills under the mantle of the Common Core and Next Generation Standards. He is co-author and author of several books as well as acting editor and contributor on the Partnership for 21st Century Skills blog.
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In this timely new look at elementary science education, you will find creative ways to engage students to think and act like eager future scientists. Science Alive! is for classroom teachers, scientists, and administrators to help them provide ways to practice simple tactics for adopting Project Based Inquiry as their chief instructional tool. Project Based Inquiry is a philosophy, when aligned with the new science standards, develops 21st Century Skills, and leads to deeper science learning outcomes for all students. This practical no-nonsense book has well-tested examples to make PBI an easy and simple tool to implement. With Science Alive!, science will come alive as your students learn to think, act, and conduct themselves as scientists while learning from doing the required science in your curriculum and meeting the goals of core standards.
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In 1972, an intrepid group of teachers and students at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL) formed the Center for Self-Directed Learning. Each student would design their own program instead of following the daily grind of standardized courses with off-the-shelf textbooks, canned lectures, and, of course, the all-important final exam.
Approximately 600 students took the plunge into the unknown during the Center’s 10 years. Now, more than 35 Center graduates look back on their experience, each of them writing about why they left the standard curriculum and joined the Center, what they did in the Center, and how the Center has affected their adult lives. Among the graduates who contributed memoirs are Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen. |
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