Luanne Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 ... using real books (instead of textbooks). Can this be done? Where would I find information about something like this? Are there any lists anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I do not believe that a "real" or "living" book approach in high school accomplishes enough systematic teaching to adequately prepare a student for science courses at college. It is not sufficient to read about the concepts, the student also needs to apply them to problems. Living books do not teach a student to solve stoichiometry problems, calculate the concentration of solutions, solve force and kinematics problems... I am all for living books in Middle school, but not in high school; I would be extremely concerned that this is setting up the student for failure in the introductory science courses in college which are hard even for students with a solid high school science education. I teach introductory physics courses at a university. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 You might want to cross post to the high school sub-forum. I am not sure what is your defination of real books. However if you are asking about whether you can cover the syllabus for high school science using well written science books, than I would say yes. It can be more time intensive and requires you to either have a very good personal book collection or to have a good library system or spend a lot of time on the internet. Some articles about this topic No Books, No Problem: Teaching without a Text (high school chemistry) Inside the Flipped Classroom (high school math) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbmamaz Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 Also joy hakim the story of science Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Margaret did you use these instead of science text books? Physics:The Cartoon Guide to Physics by Art Huffman and Larry Gonick How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel Mad about Physics: Braintwister, Paradoxes, and Curiosities by Christopher Jargodzdi The Flying Circus of Physics With Answers by Jearl Walker Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe by Bryon D. Anderson and Nathan Spielberg How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival by David Kaiser Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynmann The Radioactive Boyscout by Ken Silverstein How Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life by Louis A. Bloomfield Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space Chemistry: The Disappearing Spoon and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe by Theodore W. Gray Braving the Elements by Harry B. Gray and William C. Trogler Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersley-Williams Biology: The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius by Sam Kean Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws The Earth Moved: On The Remarkable Acheiments of Earthworms by Amy Stewart Fifty Animals that Changed the Course of History by Eric Chaline Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik The Rediscovery of North America by Barry Lopez After the Spill: The Exxon Valdez Disaster Then and Now by Susan Postawko Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Decade of Destruction by Adrian Cowell After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway by Douglas Ian Stewart The Rediscovery of North America by Barry Lopez The Global Citizen by Donella Meadows Encounters with the ArchDruis by John McPhee Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond The Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone Earth Odyssey by Mark Hertsgaard Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by Alan Durning A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson A Fierce Green Fire by Philip Shabecoff One River by Wade Davis Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms and Perturbations of the Blue Planet by Charles Officer and Jake Page Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Fire by Sebastian Junger Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro Naming Nature by Mary Blocksma Krakatoa by Simon Winchester General: The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World by Ted Anton The Roving MInd by Isaac Asimov Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds behind Them by Clifford Pickover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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