Product Description

Make Learning Science Fun with this Essential Guide from Everyone’s Favorite Science Teacher!

Now you can introduce children to the wonders of science in a way that’s exhilarating and lasting. In Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of Science, the award-winning teacher and popular children’s author provides key tools to help you effectively teach the physical, life, and Earth and space sciences and encourage kids to become enthusiastic, independent investigators. Each science concept is presented with hands-on activities, teacher tips, key terms, and much more, including:

• reproducible sheets of experiments and patterns

• lists of expectations based on National Science Education Standards and Benchmarks

• advice on preparing materials and presenting each topic

• dozens of suggestions for extensions

As with all of Janice VanCleave’s books, the format is easy to follow and the required materials are inexpensive and easy to find. With Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of Science you can inspire, challenge, and help your students to develop a lively and lifelong interest in science.

"Janice VanCleave’s books are so popular that they are some of the books we check out most often. . . . Our student teachers and new teachers often comment about how useful the VanCleave books are."–Janet Jordon, Purdue University

"Ms. VanCleave’s presentation of the application of the scientific process is truly beyond compare. . . . She is able to set high standards for children without mystifying the subject. . . . [A] talented author and spectacular teacher."–Kristen Parks, Education Director, The Discovery Science Place

"People often tell me how great my science lessons are. I always admit that the lessons come straight from Janice VanCleave’s books. . . . Everyone in my class gets excited when it’s science time!"–Laura Roberts, elementary school teacher, Louisville, KY

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390639 in Books
• Brand: JOHN WILEY & SONS
• Published on: 2001-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From the Back Cover
Make Learning Science Fun with this Essential Guide from Everyone’s Favorite Science Teacher!

Now you can introduce children to the wonders of science in a way that’s exhilarating and lasting. In Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of Science, the award-winning teacher and popular children’s author provides key tools to help you effectively teach the physical, life, and Earth and space sciences and encourage kids to become enthusiastic, independent investigators. Each science concept is presented with hands-on activities, teacher tips, key terms, and much more, including:

• reproducible sheets of experiments and patterns

• lists of expectations based on National Science Education Standards and Benchmarks

• advice on preparing materials and presenting each topic

• dozens of suggestions for extensions

As with all of Janice VanCleave’s books, the format is easy to follow and the required materials are inexpensive and easy to find. With Janice VanCleave’s Teaching the Fun of Science you can inspire, challenge, and help your students to develop a lively and lifelong interest in science.

"Janice VanCleave’s books are so popular that they are some of the books we check out most often. . . . Our student teachers and new teachers often comment about how useful the VanCleave books are."–Janet Jordon, Purdue University

"Ms. VanCleave’s presentation of the application of the scientific process is truly beyond compare. . . . She is able to set high standards for children without mystifying the subject. . . . [A] talented author and spectacular teacher."–Kristen Parks, Education Director, The Discovery Science Place

"People often tell me how great my science lessons are. I always admit that the lessons come straight from Janice VanCleave’s books. . . . Everyone in my class gets excited when it’s science time!"–Laura Roberts, elementary school teacher, Louisville, KY

About the Author
JANICE VANCLEAVE is a former award-winning science teacher who now spends her time writing and giving science workshops. She is the author of over forty books with sales totaling over 2 million copies.

Customer Reviews

This is the best, all-subject, science experiment book.
I highly recommend this book to teachers. The experiments are easy and fun. The directions are easy and the materials are general items from around the house. I bought this book because I was doing a rock study for my grade three classroom. The first day, I did a demonstration experiment on the compression of rock over time. I used three pieces of bread (white, brown and rye)and stepped on them as the experiment said. My kids loved it and they understood the lesson! The next day, several of the kids had decided among themselves to bring one extra slice of bread and so, they had an impromptu lab during lunch time!

I used that lunchtime to write the lab up on chart paper and the kids were thrilled. I ended up doing a lab every morning and writing the lab up too. After a month, I had the kids write their own labs. It is invaluable to teach them a love of science and to impress on them the ease of technical lab-writing terms. Now, they pick the lab the day before or even try a variation of it to demonstrate in class. In order to demonstrate it though, they must write the lab before hand.

This is the best science book around. If you are a teacher in grades 2-6, it is invaluable.