How do young children learn math and science?  Exploring Science and Mathematics in a Child’s World examines the development of learning theory... through twelve concept explorations on basic natural science themes.   The book models how best learning practices are constructed in classroom settings.  It also demonstrates how to apply mathematical concepts in authentic minds-on and hands-on experiences related to science.    Part One lays the foundation of child development, interrelated mathematics and science processes, and Concept Exploration design.  Concept Exploration provides an alternative approach to the usual reliance on a basis model, enabling the teacher and students to explore a wider range of design concepts.  This is outlined in Chapter Six.  Part Two contains chapters of activities based around a theme such as water, clouds, sun and shadows, wind, birds, insects, and more.  All of the activities correlate to the NSES and NCTM standards.  This is pictured in a chart at the beginning of each activity chapter for easy reference.    For schools where blended math and science courses are offered, this book fills a need as one that demonstrates appropriate content integration and will be a great reference for teachers for many years. 

Exploring Science in Early Childhood, long used as a teaching tool at Harvard and other top universities, is the best example of a text that teaches... activities and applications in a developmental sequence to support children's learning. When put into practice, the approaches taught here will help children construct the concepts and skills essential to a basic understanding of science. These concepts and skills are also needed for an understanding of mathematics and are closely related to the skills used in reading, especially reading comprehension. The concepts, skills, and instructional strategies are aligned with the national standards in all fields and have been developed in cooperation with teachers at each developmental level, and then field tested for success. To further ensure success, assessments have been provided at every level. Finally, the emphasis on three types of learning-naturalistic, informal, and structured-makes the concepts, skills, and instructional strategies especially easy to integrate into different classroom or learning situations

Are you a software developer? Do you manage software developers? Are you using scrum? Are you thinking of using scrum? Then you must have this book!... Scrum is the most popular agile software development process in use today, but implementing it has proven difficult for many people. Dan and Doug wrote this book in order to help people with their implementations of Scrum. Both Dan and Doug have trained and coached thousands of people, most of whom are already using Scrum. In spite of the fact that they have read about Scrum, have been trained or coached in Scrum, and are using Scrum, their most common complaint is that they need help to do it right. And, Dan and Doug have found, many (if not most) of them need some help. This book is for them and others like them. This book is not an introductory text. Dan and Doug assume that those who read this book know, or think they know, something about Scrum. This book takes a deep, exploratory, look into the Scrum framework, and offers advice about how to think about it, and how to use it. Some of this advice is philosophical, some is pragmatic, some is practical, and some of it is controversial. The controversies happen because Dan and Doug are brutally consistent and true to the essence of Scrum. This book is not the result of an academic exercise; every suggestion or conclusion in this book is grounded in real-life issues they have encountered, and suggestions that they have made for teams and people they have coached or trained. This book contains both pragmatic advice and the philosophical underpinnings justifying that advice. Scrum is a development framework that is very demanding of its adherents. Scrum is easy to understand, but doing it successfully (one might even say ‘right’) is very difficult. Scrum’s ‘out of the box’ process is just good enough to allow Teams, Organizations, and Individuals to develop software successfully while their ‘process personalities’ are maturing and becoming more scrummish. Once their personalities have changed, then they can adapt Scrum for their own situations and realities. This book focuses on helping you become more scrummish and discusses some of the adaptations you will make as you mature.

Exploring Second Language Classroom Research is a comprehensive introductory manual for beginning and advanced researchers. Authored by two leading... experts in the field, the text explores research traditions and processes. The text is illustrated with a variety of qualitative and quantitative data and includes tasks for reflection and application.

This introduction to social change focuses on theories that explain social change, innovation, social movements, and revolutions. The last part of the... book shifts explicitly to the global level to analyze population and environmental issues and globalization. Within this framework, the book discusses topics about change and its problems familiar in sociology and social science.

For one semester junior/senior and beginning-level graduate courses in Social Change.   An introduction to social change that highlights... theories on key topics including social change, innovation, social movements, and revolutions.   Exploring Social Change: America and the World 6e is a comprehensive introduction to social change. The last part of the book shifts explicitly to the global level to analyze population and environmental issues and globalization. Within this framework, the book discusses topics about change and its problems familiar in sociology and social science.

This brief and economical reader, edited by Jim Henslin, is specifically designed to be used as a companion to Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth... Approach, Eighth Edition. There is one reading per text chapter, including a selection to accompany the online chapter, “The Sociology of Human Sexuality.”

This brief, modular introduction to social psychology offers streamlined focus on issues such as belief and illusion, prejudice and diversity, and love... and hate. The brevity of each of the book's 31 stand-alone modules makes this the perfect text for covering the core concepts in the field. By introducing social psychology in an essay format and by writing in a voice that is both solidly scientific and warmly human, Exploring Social Psychology is able to reveal social psychology as an investigative reporter might, by providing a current summary of important social phenomena, by showing how social psychologists uncover and explain such phenomena, and by reflecting on their human significance. The new edition includes discussion of the Hurricane Katrina aftermath as an illustration of hindsight bias and availability heuristic, the Iraq War and belief perseverance, and terrorism and group polarization.

Based on the bestselling text, Social Psychology, 10th Edition, Exploring Social Psychology, 6th Edition succinctly explores social psychological... science and its applications to contemporary issues and everyday life. Thirty-one short modules—each readable in a single sitting—introduce students to important social phenomena and to how scientists discover and explain such phenomena. Throughout, students are challenged to think critically about such issues as: • How does our thinking – both conscious and unconscious – drive our behavior? • What leads people sometimes to hurt and sometimes to help one another? • What kindles social conflict, and how can we transform closed fists into helping hands? Answering these and other questions, Exploring Social Psychology, 6th Edition expands our self-understanding and sensitizes us to the social forces that pull our strings.

This book presents a unique opportunity to read many original source materials written by authors representing diverse points of view and a broad... spectrum of history in the field of education. It offers a personal philosophical perspective on the work of teaching; the function of schools in our society; and the relationships between education and productivity. Unlike most introductions to the profession, the issues raised in this book bring readers face-to-face with themselves and with the challenging dilemmas they will confront as teachers. It provides exceptional coverage of community and the changing social, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic landscape of our society and its impact on schools, children, and teaching. In addition, the book answers the following questions: What are the relationships between culture, society, and education?, What are the dynamics of daily life in schools as institutions in particular organizational and community contexts?, In what ways are gender, language, culture, race, social class, and the relationship between school and work important to education?, and What orientations and strategies can teachers adopt that will enable them to become more transformative educators? For individuals contemplating a career in teaching.

This timely new book provides an excellent foundation in the techniques of sound design production for the interactive arts. Coverage ranges from basic... acoustics and digital audio theory to creating, mixing, and implementing sound and music in such interactive spaces as Web sites, games, and virtual worlds. Readers are introduced to the essentials of recording and reproduction, the key strategies for successful sound design, and the musical and psychological aspects of sound. The practical and theoretical knowledge presented in this book facilitates the important transition from the techniques of linear sound design used in film and video to the non-linear sound design techniques associated with adaptive audio spaces.

Exploring Sport & Exercise Psychology, Second Edition, is intended for psychologists, kinesiologists, physical education specialists, and students... interested in exploring opportunities in sport and exercise psychology. It provides an indispensable overview of applications, interventions, and practice issues in this up-and-coming field. Popular in terventions for peak performance (including imagery training, intensity regulation, modeling, and goal setting) are featured, along with population-specific advice (includes college and elite athletes), strategies for enhancing physical and psychological well-being, specialization education and training, and tips on how to get started in the field. Leaders in the field have been brought together to comment on their specific areas of expertise. Don't miss this useful guide to a growing area of specialization.