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Credits Special thanks to the students and teachers of CS 134 in the Bronx, New York, for their kind invitation to the authors of this volume to photograph students engaged in science activities in their school. These photographs can be found on the following pages of Ready, Set, Science!: ii, iii, 9, 10, 13, 47 (left), 48, 50, 66 (top), 68, 69, and 74. front cover Photodisc, EyeWire Inc., Digital Stock Corporation, NPS photo by J. Schmidt; back cover Photodisc; ii Harry Heleotis; iii Harry Heleotis; 7 Photodisc; 9 Harry Heleotis; 10 Harry Heleotis; 11 Richard Sohmer; 13 Harry Heleotis; 21 Open Door Images; 22 Digital Stock Corporation; 24 Modeling Nature Project, National Science Foundation; 26 Modeling Nature Project, National Science Foundation; 29 PhotoAlto; 31 Photodisc; 33 Photodisc; 46 (left and right) Richard Sohmer; 47 (left) Harry Heleotis; 47 (right) Richard Sohmer; 48 Harry Heleotis; 49 Richard Sohmer; 50 Harry Heleotis; 52 Richard Sohmer; 66 (top) Harry Heleotis; 66 (bottom) Sarah Michaels; 67 Sarah Michaels; 68 Harry Heleotis; 69 Harry Heleotis; 73 (top) Richard Sohmer; 73 (bottom) Richard Sohmer; 74 Harry Heleotis; 80 (top and bottom) Richard Sohmer; 81 (top and bottom) Richard Sohmer; 82 Richard Sohmer; 96 Photodisc; 102 Comstock Images; 104 Sarah Michaels; 109 Tim Dzurilla; 110 Tim Dzurilla; 115-116 Student displays in R. Lehrer and L. Schauble, Symbolic communication in mathematics and science: Co-constituting inscription and thought. In J. Byrnes and E.D. Amsel (Eds.), Language, literacy, and cognitive devel- opment: The development and consequences of symbolic communication (pp. 167-192); copyright Taylor and Francis Group LLC; 118 EyeWire Inc.; 120 Photograph by Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble; copyright American Education Research Organization; 121 Photograph by Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble; copyright American Education Research Organization; 122 (top and bottom) Photographs by Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble; copyright American Education Research Organization; 124 (top and bottom) Photographs by Richard Lehrer and Leona Schauble; copyright American Education Research Organization; 132 EyeWire Inc.; 137 (left and right) Carol Smith; 178 Carol Smith Acknowledgments 197

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What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences?

Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators.

Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools.

This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone �including parents �directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

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