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Nebel's Elementary Education: Creating a Tapestry of Learning (Paperback)
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Description
Nebel's Elementary Education provides a blueprint for a complete elementary (K-5) education. Especially strong in science, it also addresses basic principles of economics and government, and includes chapters concerning the teaching of communication (reading and writing), math, and character education. Its material builds and integrates in the same systematic, logical way as his three-volume set "Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding."
Nebel's Elementary Education does not provide specific lesson plans, but a teaching strategies chapter places inquiry learning at the center of its child-centered, hands-on, question-seeking approach. An extensive index completes the volume.
About the Author
Bernard J. Nebel earned a Ph.D. in botany from Duke University in 1965 and spent the majority of his career teaching at Catonsville Community College in Maryland. His entry into teaching coincided with the rise of the environmental movement, and he developed one of the first environmental science texts. First published by Prentice Hall in 1981, Dr. Nebel went on to update Environmental Science: The Way the World Works for the next twenty years in eight editions. Teaching at the community college level, he became increasingly frustrated by entry-level students' lack of scientific knowledge. Dr. Nebel examined elementary school curricula, and coupled with his experience of what kids are capable of learning and understanding, Nebel's Elementary Education (2001) was his first contribution toward an improvement. He has gone on to publish three volumes of “Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding,” which include over 100 lesson plans that progress from kindergarten through middle school.
