Elementary Science Education: Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Vol.
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The Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding volumes are only part of the package.
Students completing the BFSU curriculum will have the knowledge and skills prerequisite for any high school AP Science course plus the Understanding necessary to contribute positively toward implementing solutions to problems of the day.
Within each lesson, teachers/homeschoolers will find signposts that direct them in bringing students to exercise these and other practices that are crucial, not only to science, but to every other profession and countless aspects of everyday life as well.
Key among these are: making observations, asking questions and exercising logical reasoning in deriving answers to those questions.
In addition to providing rigorous learning progressions, BFSU guides teachers and homeschoolers in using teaching techniques that have been proven to be most effective in developing students\' proficiency in exercising the practices of science.
Lesson plans in each area provide for systematic, step-by-step learning (a learning progression) that leads to a comprehension of basic ideas and concepts fundamental to each area of science.
The BFSU Science curriculum addresses all the major areas of science: nature of matter (chemistry); life sciences; physical Science and technology; and Earth and space science.
This Elementary Science, BFSU is Volume II for grades 3-5.
Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding (BFSU) is a complete K-8 Science curriculum in three volumes.
Science Lesson Plans That Develop Understanding of Scientific Ideas and Concepts in Clear Steps.
II, grades 3-5, 2nd ed.
Elementary Science Education: Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Vol
