Publisher's Synopsis
Catch Them Thinking in Science helps educators emphasize and teach thinking skills in science with topics that feature salamanders, frogs, planets, fungi, elements, compounds, and much more! The teacher-friendly format makes this book extremely appealing and easy to use.
Author Sally Berman incorporates cooperative learning while using strategies that cross disciplines, such as think-pair-share, people search, Venn diagrams, predictions, logs, wraparounds, webs, and metacognitive questioning methods. This is an ideal book to prepare middle to high school students to act as thinkers not just in science, but in all areas of life!
Catch Them Thinking in Science includes:
Complete lesson designs with focus, objective, activity, metacognitive processing, and closure defined
Interactive techniques to enhance lectures, worksheets, and textbook assignments
Learning strategies that can be used in science as well as across the curriculum
Activities for exercising student skills in gathering, processing, analyzing, and applying information
