Story Starters and Science Notebooking: Developing Student Thinking Through Literacy and Inquiry is designed to provide a meaningful, comfortable framework in which teachers and parents can encourage elementary children to explore scientific ideas in an inquiry-oriented format.

* Introduction

* Notebooking activities

* Problems to solve

* Background information for teachers

* 60 illustrations and halftones

* 24 figures

* Appendix

There are 216 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by ABC-CLIO .

Sandy Buczynski is an assistant professor of education at the University of San Diego, CA. Kristin Fontichiaro is an elementary library media specialist in Birmingham, MI.