Great Moments In Science: Experiments And Readers Theatre

Your students can experience the thrill of discovery and learn important scientific principles with these readers theatre scripts and experiments. The 12 reproducible scripts re-create significant moments in the history of Western science. Each is linked to student experiments that imitate or parallel the experiments in the stories. Integrating science with history and a variety of subjects, the book covers topics in physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, rocketry, genetics, and other major fields of science. Tips for using readers theatre and step-by-step instructions for the experiments make this practical and effective resource.

Significant moments of scientists' discoveries and inventions come alive in these 12 scripts based on stories in Marvels of Science. Linked with each are student experiments that parallel or simulate the actual experiments in the story. For example, young learners can enact the process by which Galileo developed his Law of Falling Objects. Detailed directions and step-by-step instructions guide students through experiments in physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology, rocketry, genetics, and other major fields of science. Great Moments in Science has been used as a recommended text at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.