Christine Preston is the author of a new book, “Try this — Engaging Science/STEM learners in their first years of school”. The chapters that make up this book are a collection of articles originally published in in Teaching Science (the journal of the ASTA), with the proceeds going to the ASTA.
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It is interesting to put various domains of science in this work: Try this — Engaging Science/STEM learners in their first years of school. A work of Christine Preston. Hands-on activities are also very useful. If we bring the creativity dimension in our curriculum we can see some amazing work of students. Do we find links between: Creativity, Happiness and Success? How well do we teach students about the “science of creativity” ? (i) Creativity. (ii) Theoretical Creativity. (iii) Experimental Creativity. It is also useful to teach students about creativity to take them on the path to theoretical creativity and experimental creativity. My this approach was tried in Canada and students made some creative models for science, especially inventions including possible inventions/ models to help humanity (Theoretical or Experimental; at small scale, elementary level students). This approach is named: CISI = Creativity, Inspired, Science & Inventions. Some outline of CISI is given here: http://cognitivenet.wordpress.com
Altaf Qadeer (Ph.D., FRSA)