• Session 1: Teaching Ocean Science
  
  
  • Executive Summary: An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, pp. 1-26, 2004.
  • Ocean Commission: Executive Summary

• Session 2: The Process of Science
  
  
  • The Nature of Science and Habits of Mind, from Benchmarks for Science Literacy, American Association for the Advancement of Science Project 2061, pp. 3-8; 281-287, © 1993, Oxford University Press.
  • Benchmarks Online [for reference only]

• Session 3: Comparing Teaching Approaches
  
  
  • Improving Instruction, from Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes to Practices, Roger W. Bybee, pp. 167-186, © 1997, Heinemann.

• Session 4: Building Towards Inquiry
  
  
  • A scientist’s Perspective on Inquiry and Inquiry in the National Science Education Standards, from Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning, National Academy of Science, pp. xi-xiv; © 2000, National Academy Press
  • Inquiry & the National Science Education Standards [for reference only]

• Session 5: Blank Slates or Clever Minds?
  
  
  • Children’s Own Concepts, from Primary Science: Taking the Plunge, Roger Osborne (Wynne Harlen, Ed.), pp. 75-91, © 1985, Heinemann Educational.

• Session 6: Questioning Strategies
  
  
  • The Right Question at the Right Time, from Primary Science: Taking the Plunge, Jos Elstgeest (Wynne Harlen, Ed.), pp. 36-46, © 1985, Heinemann Educational.

• Session 8: Designing a Lesson, for 5 April
  
  
  • What is Backward Design?, from Understanding by Design, Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, pp. 7-19, © 1998, Merrill Prentice Hall.

• Session 7: Questions Lab, for 12 April
  
  
  • Helping Children Raise Questions – and Answering Them, from Primary Science: Taking the Plunge, Roger Osborne (Wynne Harlen, Ed.), pp. 75-91, © 1985, Heinemann Educational.

• Session 9: Promoting Discussion
  
  
  • Dialogic Instruction: When Recitation Becomes Conversation, from Opening Dialogue: Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Learning in the English Classroom, Martin Nystrand, pp. ix-xii; pp. 1-29, © 1997, Teachers College Press.

• Session 10: Assessment
  
  
  • The Case for Strengthening Assessment in the Science Classroom, from Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards, National Academy of Sciences, pp. 11-21, © 2001, National Academy Press.
  • Classroom Assessment and the National Science Education Standards [for reference only]

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