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Summarizing with Drawings: A Reading-Comprehension Strategy

The development of literacy skills is essential for student success. According to the National Science Education Standards, “Scientific literacy en...

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Drawing on Students' Knowledge

Effective instruction requires continual assessment of student understanding to identify and redirect misconceptions. This is particularly important w...

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Science 101: What causes the seasons?

In this article, we learn about the relationship between the Earth and the sun at certain times of the year. Certain myths are broken, and we get a r...

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Fabulous Weather Day

Each year, first graders at Kensington Parkwood Elementary School in Kensington, Maryland, look forward to Fabulous Weather Day. After studying weathe...

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Combustion and Energy Transfer Experiments: A Laboratory Model for Linking Core Concepts Across the Science Curriculum

Core concepts can be integrated throughout lower-division science and engineering courses by using a series of related, cross-referenced laboratory ex...

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After the Bell: Making a community information guide about nonpoint source pollution

A good slogan to introduce this project is “think globally, act locally.” The purpose of the project is to inform students that the actions they t...

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Breaking the Sound Barrier

Student interest in science has been amplified at one elementary school. During a recent unit on sound, students in a fourth-grade class participated ...

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Research and Teaching: Small-Group Peer Teaching in Introductory Biology Classroom

All teachers want their students to learn, enjoy, and be engaged in their classes. A good way to create such results is to incorporate active learning...

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Preparing Future Faculty: An Interdisciplinary, Undergraduate Science Course Taught by Graduate and Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholars

To adequately prepare future faculty for their multiple roles as researchers, teachers, and colleagues, innovative teaching opportunities must be ma...

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Using Science Fiction Movie Scenes to Support Critical Analysis of Science

This article discusses the pedagogical advantages and challenges of using science-fiction movies and television shows in an introductory science class...

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Teacher’s Toolkit: Making the most of concept maps

A concept map is a two-dimensional, graphic or schematic diagram illustrating the interconnections, and often the hierarchy, of a particular concept o...

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Tabizi Pythons & Clendro Hawks: Using Imaginary Animals to Achieve Real Knowledge about Ecosystems

In the engaging unit described here, imaginary organisms are used to teach a variety of topics related to ecosystems—food chains and energy flow, fo...

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Analogies and the 5E Model

We have all sat in classes in which a teacher made a difficult or abstract concept understandable by using an analogy. Science classes are full of abs...

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Scope on Safety: Is safety included in your science activity kits?

For some school districts, the convenience, organization, curriculum scope, and sequence provided by science kits make them a tempting choice for inco...

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Classroom Applications of Top-Down & Bottom-Up Processing

Recent research in cognitive neuroscience has yielded a more comprehensive understanding of brain function. The advances in neuropsychological researc...