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The authors argue throughout this book, meaningful, lasting change in the quality of secondary science is going to depend on what teachers do for them...
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Looking Forward Into the 21st Century: Implications for the Science Leader
Science education and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education are often used interchangeably. As science educators in searc...
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The Content-Understanding-Environment (C-U-E) framework incorporates key findings from research and is easy to use and remember. Further, current prof...
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The strategies associated with the “Content” aspect of the framework help keep us focused on the question “Why am I doing this?” Clearly, we n...
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This chapter focuses on strategies you can use as you work with students to develop their understanding of science concepts. After reviewing the resea...
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Content and understanding strategies contribute in large measure to the instruction we provide. Yet the effectiveness of the most carefully crafted le...
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The Content-Understanding-Environment instructional framework presented in this book is meant to add some tools to your toolbox. Many of the tools are...
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The Chronology of Course Design
Although the unpredictability of leading a lecture-free class may be unsettling at first, the author encourages you to embrace the energy that accompa...
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Forest History, Ecology, and Values
Forests have been crucial to human welfare since the dawn of civilization. The history of both the Old World and the New World contains many examples ...
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The core value of forestry is the long-term sustainability of forests. Sustainability can be accomplished only if we understand ecological processes a...
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Unquestionably, conducting successful field studies with high school or beginning college students is complicated, energy consuming, and challenging. ...
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Mapping the structure of the vegetation in study plots is important for several reasons. First, with all the detailed data collected, students easily ...
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The Abiotic and Biotic Forest Environment
The exercises in this chapter have a twofold purpose. First, they will characterize the abiotic environment (i.e., the microclimate created by the for...
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Measuring Commercial Timber Values
This chapter outlines certain procedures used by foresters to measure the amount or volume of timber (primarily sawlogs) in a forest stand. This proce...
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In fiscal year 2007, there were more than 178.6 million visits to national forests across the United States; 86% of them were for recreational purpose...