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The Sourcebook for teaching science
Keywords: strategies, instructions, arts a way to communicate
Who?
Authors Norman Herr and James Cunningham, and published by Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
What?
Science is usually seen as an abstract subject.
The Sourcebook for Teaching Science is designed to complement any secondary school science curriculum. Science teachers will find ready-to-use demonstrations, experiments, illustrations, games, puzzles, analogies, lessons, activities, and strategies, as well as explanations of how to adapt these for English learners and diverse student groups. All topics are accompanied by extensive background material, providing teachers with the scientific, organizational, and pedagogical principles necessary for successful classroom implementation.
Why?
Science is usually seen as an abstract subject. Using games, analogies and illustrations give the pupils the possibility to touch and play with science.
Results
This project gives the pupils in secondary school the possibility to play with science. It is scientifically proof that Serious Games offer considerable potential for facilitating both formal and informal learning experiences. Games combine different aspects coming from the arts skills, such as graphic design and storytelling, and technological skills such as programming, logic, math.
The possibility to play with science.
The Sourcebook for Teaching Science was released in 2006 by Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and written by Norman Herr and James Cunningham. It was first published as a tool for teachers in secondary school, enabling them to present sciences in a more applied way, using serious games, puzzles, experiments, illustrations, and strategies.
The contents of the book are now available on the Internet. A series of games are presented, and there are many other resources simplifying scientific concepts using videos, visualization, mind maps and so on.
Sources
Herr, N., 2007. The Sourcebook for Teaching Science. [online] Csun.edu. Available at: http://www.csun.edu/science/index.html [Accessed 18 March 2022].