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A Team-Teaching Game Plan for One School Year
This chapter helps to outline what all co-teaching teams should be doing during each phase of a typical school year. Because the two individuals invol...
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Teaching Science to Students With Special Needs in Advance Classes
Most advanced science classes are not team taught. Although there may be several students with special needs in honors, gifted and talented, Internati...
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Science and Art: Dueling Disciplines or Dynamic Duo?
A mixer activity (supplemented by “scientific” art, music, and optional demonstrations) is used to catalyze a conversation on the similarities and...
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5 E(z) Yet pHenomenal Steps to Demystifying Magic Color-Changing Markers
In this chapter you will explore, the chemical principles that explain the “science behind the magic” of color changing markers are explored in a ...
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5 E(z) Steps Back Into “Deep” Time: Visualizing the Geobiological Timescale
In this chapter, you will explore a sequence of fun, participatory activities juxtapose everyday popular culture and human time perspectives with the ...
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5 E(z) Steps to Earth-Moon Scaling: Measurements and Magnitudes Matter
Learners are surprised to learn that most textbook illustrations incorrectly represent the relative sizes and/or distance between Earth and its single...
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Acronyms and Acrostics Articulate Attributes of Science (and Science Teaching)
Learners’ ideas about the nature of science, school science, and science teaching are elicited by their creation of acronyms or acrostics that defin...
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Tackling the Terrible Tyranny of Terminology: Divide and Conquer
Big, hard words in science are invariably made up of small, easy Greek- and Latin-based prefixes, suffixes, and root words that students can systema...
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Inquiring Into Reading as Meaning-Making: Do Spelling and Punctuation Really Matter?
Learners are asked to read a passage full of misspelled words. Many readers are able to discern the meaning despite the numerous intentionally embedde...
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Ambiguous Text: Meaning-Making in Reading and Science
Learners are asked to read one or more passages of ambiguous, discrepant text where they understand the individual words (or “trees”) but are hard...
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Glue Mini-Monster: Wanted Dead or Alive?
A drop of clear, colorless, viscous liquid (i.e., a specific brand of modeling glue) assumes the role of an unknown macroscopic, single-celled organi...
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Water “Stick-to-It-Ness”: A Penny for Your Thoughts
Water (in contrast to other clear, household liquids) assumes and maintains a very distinct semispherical shape when placed on a piece of waxed paper...
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Burdock and Velcro: Mother Nature Knows Best
In this chapter’s activity, Velcro is explored as an example of a human-engineered invention that was a “copycat” inspired by a naturally evolve...
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Greenhouses are made almost completely of glass for two reasons. First, glass allows the maximum amount of sunlight into the building. Plants need the...