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Action projects are an invaluable way to engage students in authentic, real-life application of the concepts they have learned relating to the environ...
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The intent of this chapter is not to review the literature that justifies and rationalizes the implementation of field-based learning experiences for ...
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Making Mendel’s Model Manageable
Genetics is often a fascinating but difficult subject for middle level students. They can see the results of genes in every organism, but trying to vi...
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The impetus for this book and for much of the nation’s conversation during recent years about the impending “shortfall” of science teachers was ...
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How Did Teaching First Gain and Then Lose Its Professional Status?
There is widespread agreement that science teaching is more than a career—it’s a “calling,” and it’s the “discovery” that hooks teachers...
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The Long Shadow of No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law January 2002, and started a multistate effort to push for “accountability” in the nation’s loca...
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Ongoing Efforts to Elevate Teachers' Capability and Status
The publication of A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform in 1983, was more than just another report on the need for school reform. I...
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Engaging Science Teachers in the Wider World of Science
This chapter focuses on how secondary science teachers can remain connected—as professionals—to science and scientists. It features four programs ...
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Science Teaching Elsewhere: Spotlight on Finland
The United States competes with graduates from other countries. In this chapter, the authors pose the question: What can we learn from their systems, ...
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Empowering Science Teachers to Lead
For too long, teachers have allowed others to make work-related decisions for them. Science teachers need to see themselves as the key to the success ...
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Air Mass Matters: Creating a Need-to-Know
Air has weight and exerts a pressure of 10 N/cm2 (or 14.7 lbs/in2) at sea level. Gases are not “no thing.” Gases have mass, occupy space, exert pr...
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This chapter discusses what the United States has long believed are the essentials with regard to teacher compensation: pay, tenure, and the presence ...
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Birds, Bugs, and Butterflies: Science Lessons for Your Outdoor Classroom
Among the wild animals that may travel through a school yard, birds, bugs, and butterflies are the most common—the focus of most of the lessons in t...
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The same water that has existed on Earth for millions of years travels through a series of steps in a cycle from mountains to the sea, flows in and ou...
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It is easy for ecology to degenerate into lists of vocabulary words and isolated concepts, leaving students without an appreciation for the complexity...