Wenham

__**Teaching and Learning with Wenham**__

How can we incorporate the Wenham book as our primary teaching text?

Deb-- I'm thinking of using chapter one in Wenham in the beginning of the semester, when we read Inquiry ch. 1 and Ready, Set, Science 1, and talk about what science really is, in contrast to what they've experienced in their own science learning. Wenham takes a slightly more traditional view of science, and I want students to see how ideas are different and change, about this issue. Then, later, for each of the content investigations we do -- as science learners -- I want them to engage in making knowledge together, with evidence and explanations, and see how the knowledge can be built, and then read the Wenham chapter to compare how far they've come in their own understanding, and what a scientific explanation looks like. I'm thinking of doing seeds and growth, electricity, and light and shadows, and there are chapters on each of those. For their lesson planning, then, they'll be familiar with Wenham, and can find the chapter that's relevant to their own units, and use that for their subject matter research essay.