TY - BOOK AU - Bloom, Jeffrey W. TI - The really useful elementary science book SN - 978-0-415-95819-6 AV - 372.35044 B62r PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Science KW - Study and teaching (Elementary) KW - Effective teaching KW - Elementary school teaching N1 - Includes index; Section 1: Introduction -- Section 2: Life Processes and Systems -- Section 3: Ecology and the Environment -- Section 4: The Physical Sciences -- Section 5: Earth and Space N2 - "A good elementary science teacher traverses a wide spectrum of science each year. While the content may be introductory, the breadth of science can be a challenge for anyone in the science community. The temptations for teachers can be to give up in despair and cherrypick only those science topics with which the teacher is comfortable. Jeffrey W. Bloom has instead used the well founded notion of ?key ideas` to ER -