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NCSE Climate Change Lesson Plans

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NCSE Climate Change Lesson Plans

A series of 5 lesson plans developed by NCSE and a group of highly skilled teacher ambassadors. Each lesson provides a teacher preparation guide, an ...

Postsecondary High School Middle School

USDA Soil Education Resources

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USDA Soil Education Resources

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service provides educational materials on soil science and includes lesson plans, videos and access to the wor...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Middle School

Online Teaching Resources You Can Use - A List Compiled by NSTA

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Online Teaching Resources You Can Use - A List Compiled by NSTA

Due to the coronavirus pandemic many school districts across the country have decided to close schools and teach online full time. NSTA has compiled a...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool

Project-Based Learning

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Project-Based Learning

Resources for inquiry/project-based teaching....

Postsecondary High School

The Vernier Go Direct EKG Sensor: The Heart in Action

Blog Post

The Vernier Go Direct EKG Sensor: The Heart in Action

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were bro...

By Martin Horejsi

High School Postsecondary Biology Technology

Why do we all have to stay home? Secondary Version

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Why do we all have to stay home? Secondary Version

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the news every day – and becoming increasingly sensationalized – your students are likely to have ques...

Postsecondary High School Informal Education Middle School Life Science

Crosscutting Concepts

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Crosscutting Concepts

This collection shares resources to support the use of crosscutting concepts to support ALL students in the classroom....

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool

Performance Expectation

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Performance Expectation

This collection shares resources to support a deeper understanding of performance expectations in new science standards....

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool

Three Dimensional Learning

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Three Dimensional Learning

This collection shares resources to support the understanding and implementation of three-dimensional teaching and learning....

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool

Phenomena

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Phenomena

This collection shares resources on phenomena to support their use in the contemporary vision for science education as a driver of teaching and learni...

Postsecondary Early Childhood Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool

Journal Article

An Introvert’s Perspective: Analyzing the Impact of Active Learning on Multiple Levels of Class Social Personalities in an Upper Level Biology Course

With calls to reassess higher education teaching methods, active learning practices have quickly become a popular alternative to traditional lecture...

By William C. Beckerson, Jennifer O. Anderson, John D. Perpich , and Debbie Yoder-Himes

Postsecondary

Journal Article

Building First-Year Science Writing Skills With an Embedded Writing Instruction Program

An important foundational skill developed in an undergraduate science program is the ability to find, critically evaluate, and communicate scientifi...

By David Dansereau, L. E. Carmichael, and Brian Hotson

Postsecondary

Journal Article

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Using Team-Based Learning in the Science Classroom

With an overwhelming amount of research and a demand for collaborative learning in the classroom, teachers are tackling challenges at all educationa...

By Virginia J. Moore, Elizabeth Mitchell Prewitt, Amber Jean Carpenter-McCullough, and Brooke A. Whitworth

Postsecondary

Journal Article

Clickers Are Not Enough: Results of a Decade-Long Study Investigating Instructional Strategies in Chemistry

Studies on the effectiveness of clickers in undergraduate chemistry courses are mixed, and there is disagreement on how to effectively leverage clic...

By David J. Weiss, Patrick McGuire, Wendi Clouse, and Raphael Sandoval

Postsecondary

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