Teaching Science offers major leaps forward in understanding knowledge, language and pedagogy that will shape the research agenda far beyond science education.

Chapter 1. The teaching of science: New insights into knowledge, language and pedagogy. Part I - Knowledge-Building in Science Education. Chapter 2. Targeting science: Successfully integrating mathematics into science teaching. Chapter 3. Constellating science: How relations among ideas help build knowledge. Chapter 4. Animating science: Activating the affordances of multimedia in teaching. Part II - Language in Science Education. Chapter 5. Field relations: Understanding scientific explanations. Chapter 6. Building taxonomies: A discourse semantic model of entities and dimensions in biology. Chapter 7. Multimodal knowledge: Using language, mathematics and images in physics. Part III - Pedagogy in Science Education. Chapter 8. Widening access to science: Developing both knowledge and knowers. Chapter 9. The relationship between specialized disciplinary knowledge and its application in the world: A case study in engineering design. Chapter 10. Grounded learning: Telling and showing in the language and paralanguage of a science lecture. Chapter 11. Doing maths: (De)constructing procedures for maths processes.