Using a discussion about scientific controversy to teach central concepts in experimental design

Students may need explicit training in informal statistical reasoning in order to design experiments or use formal statistical tests effectively. By using scientific scandals and media misinterpretation, we can explore the need for good experimental design in an informal way. This article describes the use of a paper that reviews the measles mumps rubella vaccine and autism controversy in the UK to illustrate a number of threshold concepts underlying good study design and interpretation of scientific evidence. These include the necessity of sufficient sample size, representative and random sampling, appropriate controls and inferring causation.     

数学绘本在小学数学活动中的价值研究

论文阐述了数学绘本的含义以及数学绘本的特征,通过数学绘本中文化语境的不同表现形态,以及小学数学活动的发展趋势,探讨数学绘本在小学数学活动中的阅读意义以及如何有效选取和运用数学绘本激发学生学习数学的兴趣,提高小学数学教学的有效性。     

试谈理论物理的概念教学

本文通过对热力学中的概念——化学势,在单元系和多元系的具体形式的讨论,探讨理论物理的一些只引入而不去定义和讨论的重要概念的教学问题。     

Responding to illustrations in picture story books

Illustrations are a fundamental feature in children’s picture books and the evidence suggests that they are more than simply window dressing to make books look more attractive. They work in partnership with print to create layers of meaning. Janet Evans here illustrates this by using the responses of a group of children to Angry Arthur. She shows convincingly how encouraging children to respond to books in this way deepens their understanding.     

Using structured games to teach early fraction concepts to students who are deaf or hard of hearing

The study focused on the development of the concept of fractions in a group of 11- and 12-year-old students who were deaf or hard of hearing. The approach implemented in the study relied extensively on the use of games with very little formal instruction. It emphasized the development of appropriate language to facilitate an understanding of the notion of fractions through the investigation of concrete materials, pictorial representations, and interactions between students and teacher. The progress achieved by means of this approach is reported, and the implications of developing an understanding of fractions (and mathematics generally) among students who are deaf or hard of hearing are noted.     

学前教育专业中的绘本教学探析

绘本教育在幼儿教育中占有举足轻重的地位。目前高职学前教育专业的绘本教学中存在多方面问题。绘本教学应强调绘本的阅读与讲述,既要落实在课程教学体系中,又要延伸到学生实践活动中,提高学前教育专业学生的职业技能,更好地适应新时代幼儿教育发展的需求。     

Using nursery rhymes to teach reading

The kindergarten class was ready. The children had learned to recite the new verse Jack Be Nimbleand were now to see it in print for the first time Beatrice Teitel is an adjunct assistant professor at Baruch College in New York City and she lectures frequently about literacy development in young children.     

Men in picture books and environments

John Warren Stewig is Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee and is a past president of the Wisconsin and the National Council of Teachers of English. He is the author of articles in over two dozen different professional journals and has published twelve books. His latest book for children is a retelling ofStone Soup (Holiday House, 1991).     

Using picture books to develop critical visual literacy in primary schools: challenges of a dialogic approach

This paper presents findings from a collaborative project on critical visual literacy in primary schools. In the project, we (a researcher and a teacher) implemented a series of picture book discussions with children in years 5 and 6. Our first aim was to develop the children's ability to analyse the visual images in picture books and how authors/illustrators use these, together with writing, to communicate specific ideas. The second aim was to promote a dialogic lesson in which the children would lead the talk. In the paper, I discuss the challenges we faced in reaching our aims. My data include observation notes and audio recordings of the sessions and of discussions with the children. In the analysis, I examine the roles we took on, for example, as extenders and clarifiers of the children's talk. However, unbeknown to us at the start, our two project aims turned out to be in conflict with each other. While the children enjoyed looking closely at the pictures and discussing the books' possible meanings, without repeated questions and prompts, they focused on the book as story not on how it was constructed by the author and illustrator. This required a more teacher‐focused approach than what we had planned.     

Graphic Routes to Electronic Literacy: Polysemy and picture books

New media and technologies operate in polysemic formats that make complex demands on readers. During a time of constant change in ways of communicating, the familiar form of the picture book offers readers of all ages a route into sophisticated polysemic reading. Contemporary picture books provide both the comfort of the known and the potential of the new. As texts that use multiple semiotic systems, picture books also manifest the chief virtue of print on paper: they are 'a resting place for words' in Derrick de Kerckhove's phrase. Unlike online readers, picture book readers are literally able to get their hands on key words or pictures, literally able to trace the flow of the story. Within this well-known form, many contemporary picture books subvert literary conventions and explore challenging aesthetic and social questions.     

Using tangrams to teach geometry to young children

Unlike a jigsaw puzzle where a piece must fit in only one way to complete a picture, the seven pieces of a geometric tangram can be arranged in many different ways to make figures of birds, animals, people, and objects. This article presents a Tangram Teaching Guide to provide a five-step developmental sequence for teaching tangramming to young children. Teaching resources are included, and a checklist provides a summary outline of the teaching sequence. Tangram experiences help children develop positive attitudes toward geometry, further their shape identification and classification skills, and foster and understanding of basic geometric concepts and relationships.     

家庭英文亲子阅读的绘本路径研究

由于越来越多的人们意识到英语语言学习在儿童期的重要性,越来越多的家长开始不惜重金把孩子送入昂贵的语言培训机构。殊不知,提高幼儿的英语语言能力在平时的家庭亲子阅读中就可以达成,家长可以以绘本阅读为路径,根据幼儿的年龄、性格引导幼儿进行阅读,并努力营造宽松愉悦的阅读环境,指导幼儿通过各种方式阅读、巩固所学,逐步培养听、说、读的语言技能,同时为写打下结实的基础。以此,从根本上培养幼儿的英语阅读兴趣,提高孩子的英语语言综合运用能力。     

科学图画书常用教学策略浅析

进行科学图画书教学使用阅读策略时应注意：年龄适度原则;注重不同类型科学图画书的选择;教学内容的取舍;运用多种多样的教学手段.游戏策略一定要配合教学的需要,还可以进行多元课程的整合.使用创编策略应注意两个问题：一是创编的内容紧贴教学内容;二是进行知识的扩展,能够进行相关知识的链接.