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Close the Door--You're Letting the Cold In!
Actually no, you aren't letting the cold in when you leave the door open in winter. That's a common misconception that will be gently put to rest in...
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Energy transformations take place all over the Earth without humans ever getting involved. Being the control freaks that we are, though, we spend a l...
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In Which We Describe Motion and Then Change It
As far as inanimate objects are concerned, if you know what the object is doing and know all the things that will affect that object, you can predict ...
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There's No Such Thing as Gravity--The Earth Sucks
What happens when you drop an object on the ground? Though it might not be obvious, the object speeds up as it falls. That means it's accelerating and...
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How Students Learn and How Teachers Teach
In this chapter, the author explores the relationship between learning theories and teaching practices. It compares three features of scientific and e...
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Assessment involves an ongoing investigation of student learning that influences teachers’ planning and instruction. Multiple assessment strategies ...
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Curriculum Reform, Professional Development, and Powerful Learning
The authors consider the important relationship between standards-based curriculum implementation and professional development. They begin by looking ...
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Professional Development and How Teachers Learn: Developing Expert Science Teachers
Groundbreaking research on learning and cognition has produced many new insights into how people learn. These findings conclusively dispel the idea th...
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Applying the Science of Learning to the Education of Prospective Science Teachers
Cognitive scientists have studied the highly organized and efficiently utilized characteristics of experts’ knowledge in thinking and problem solvin...
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Scientific Inquiry, Student Learning, and the Science Curriculum
What we know about student learning establishes links between scientific inquiry and the science curriculum. In this chapter, the author discusses sci...
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Supporting the Science-Literacy Connection
Language arts and science are perceived as competing for classroom time and attention, and science is often neglected. However, effective literacy ins...
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Reaching the Zone of Optimal Learning: The Alignment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
The authors discuss curriculum, instruction, and assessment and how their integration enables students to achieve a strong knowledge base in science. ...
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Alignment of Instruction with Knowledge of Student Learning
A series of classroom vignettes and student conversations provides a glimpse into how our theoretical understanding of human learning translates into ...
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Learner-centered science teaching begins with the stories of learners. Knowing our students, and thereby crafting lessons that account for their inter...
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Using the Laboratory to Enhance Student Learning
Typical hands-on, cookbook laboratory experiences do an extremely poor job of making apparent and playing off students’ prior ideas, engendering dee...