The Art of Teaching Science

Resources to facilitate using the text, The Art of Teaching Science by Jack Hassard

Using the Text

This website is designed to help you use my text, The Art of Teaching Science: Inquiry and Innovation in Middle and High School.  I have included a number of tools to help you design your course that focuses the preparation of science teachers on professional artistry.  In this view, the learning to teach process involves encounters with peers, professional teachers, and science teacher educators.  To help your students achieve this goal, a number of pedagogical learning tools have been integrated into the Art of Teaching Science.  These tools involve inquiry and experimentation, reflection through writing and discussion, as well as experiences with students, science curriculum and pedagogy.

The Art of Teaching Science is organized into four parts as follows:

    Part I: Science Teaching (a reconnaissance and view of science for all)

    Part II: The Goals and Curriculum of School Science

    Part III: Connecting Theory and Practice in Science Teaching

    Part IV: Strategies of Teaching Science

Teaching Strategies. There are 12 chapters in the text.  For each chapter I have designed an online collection of Teaching Strategies (Syllabus Helpers and Agenda Strategies).  Click on the link, Teaching Strategies in the menu above to see these resources. 

Power Point Presentations.  I've designed 12 Power Point Presentations, one for each chapter, and an introduction to the text.  These should be useful to you and your students and are designed to provide a glimpse of the chapter and its focus.

Pedagogical Tools.  I designed 11 Pedagogical Tools based on my own approach to teaching science education courses, and have integrated them into the text.  Some of these include: Inquiry Activities, Think Pieces, Case Studies, Science Teacher Talk, Research Matters, and Problems and Extensions.  You will find a complete list of these on Page xvii of the text.

Inquiry Activities.  Perhaps one of the most valuable Pedagogical Tools, Inquiry Activities are science teaching investigations that enable you to reflect on the important concepts of teaching science using hands-on and minds-on processes.  I've included several of the Inquiry Activities here in the website.  Click on the link above.

Weblog.  This is a companion site to this site, and here you will find a blog that I have designed, and keep active.  You will also find links to many resources in science teaching.

Websites.  I've also included a short list of websites that I've found useful in science education courses.
Questions? jhassard@mac.com