Preface About the Author About the Contributors 1. Expeditionary Learning Receives Prestigious Toyota Tapestry Grant: Project Dracula - Peter M. Menth, California 2. Less Is More . . . Really - Stanley A. Wawrzyniak, New Hampshire 3. More Than Just Rockets - Douglas L. Bailer, Alabama 4. Gravity - Carol J. Skousen, Utah 5. Making Microbes Fun - Jason E. Hughes, West Virginia 6. Building Our Curriculum as We Build a Straw-Bale Greenhouse - Sally Ogilvie, Utah 7. Real-World Science Engagement - Kim Reining Gray, Georgia 8. A Method for Inquiry Science - Mark Goldner, Massachusetts 9. Using Technology and Music to Motivate Science Students - Brenda Zabel, Nebraska 10. The Power of Building a Positive Classroom Climate - Cindy Corlett, Colorado 11. Mission Possible - Pam Roller, Indiana 12. Robots: From Science Fiction to Science Fact - Lindsey Prentice, Indiana 13. A Different Kind of Service - Deborah Perryman, Illinois 14. Environmental Studies Enhance Middle School Education - Nancy Elliott, Missouri 15. An Independent Student Research Program Implemented in a Rural Michigan Community - Jeff Shull, Michigan 16. An Inquiry-Based, Student-Centered Approach - Jeff Shull, Michigan 17. One Very Special Evening of Science - Frieda Taylor Aiken, Georgia Index
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Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.