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Elementary Science Methods Assignment Descriptions

The following assignments are relevant to TE402 - Crafting Teaching Practice, Spring 2004 at MSU.

Title	Due Date	Assignment Description	Sample student work
Field Journals	By Friday the 1st 5 weeks .	Field Journals Assignment Desciption - Word Document
Science Definition	01-20-04	Write a one-page definiton of science.
Science Practices	01-26-04	Write a one-page description of practices of science
Students as Scientists	02-06-04	Students as Scientists - Word Document
Unit plan for teaching	see description	Unit plan assignment - Word Document Developing Knowledge and Goals Thinking conceptually about goals (Pre-Assessing students) Lessons Reflection on Science Teaching	see lessons on prior pages
Small Group Science Teaching Inquiry Project	04-26-04 04-27-04	Lesson descriptions due Presentations for peers
Science teaching protfolio entry	05-06-04	Finral Project Description	http://www.msu.edu/~hockinge/index1.htm

Elementary Science Methods Artifacts for class discussion

The following documents are relevant to TE402 - Crafting Teaching Practice, Spring 2004 at MSU.

Eco Inquiry Lesson - This is a PDF file of one lesson from Kathleen Hogan's (1994) book Eco-Inquiry. We used this lesson as the foundation for our class 'situated performance' (Finders & Rose (1999) English Education 31(3) "If I were a teacher": Situated performances as pedagogical tools for teacher preparation."