The questions below can help you think about your reading in Science Stories and make the material your own. If you can, talk through these questions with a classmate. Or simply mull them over yourself.

Chapter 1: An Invitation to Teaching Science
Chapter 2: Locating Your Scientific Self
Chapter 3: The Teacher as Mediator
Chapter 4: The Science Circus: Using the Skills of Scientific Study
Chapter 5: Making Connections: Science in the Students’ Own Environment
Chapter 6: Science Is Not Neat: Explorations of Matter
Chapter 7: Sustained Inquiry: Explorations of Living Things
Chapter 8: Spiraling Curriculum: Explorations of Density
Chapter 9: Making Models: Explorations of the Solar System
Chapter 10: Expanding the Science “Box”: Explorations of Electricity and Atoms
Chapter 11: Planning for Science: Lesson Plans and Instructional Strategies
Chapter 12: Science and Technology: A Seamless Connection
Chapter 13: Science Content and Curriculum: The Big Ideas and Your Scientific Self
Chapter 14: What’s the Big Idea? Assessing What Students Know and Are Able to Do
Chapter 15: Pulling It All Together: Reflection and Self-Assessment