Experience and research point to the need for teachers to strike a balance between direct instruction of facts and developing ...

This chapter continues the focus on promising new models for developing 21st century skills through science education begun in the previous chapter. Research conducted on both of the curriculum models ...

The National Science Education Standards (National Research Council [NRC], 1996) place inquiry, applied to scientific content areas, at the core of what it means to be scientifically literate: Inquiry ...