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Journal Article
Idea Bank: A Sense of Place--GPS and the Biology Field Trip
In this month's Idea Bank column, a high school biology teacher describes an inquiry-based, high-tech scavenger hunt based on a hybrid form of geocach...
Journal Article
Science Sampler: Developing the scientist in your students
Develop the budding scientist within your students by weaving this hands-on, exciting project into your science curriculum. This inquiry-based project...
Book Chapter
Building on the Natural Wonder Inherent in Us All
The Gladbrook-Reinbeck School District is located in Iowa, a state of just over three million people. The rich farmland that surrounds the district pr...
Book Chapter
Teaching Science With Student Thinking in Mind
This chapter describes the Discover Lab Concept (DLC), a project that began in a teaching/learning laboratory at Stony Brook University, and today is ...
Book Chapter
Unlocking the National Science Education Standards With IMaST
The National Science Foundation funded the IMaST project for three consecutive developmental cycles to design an integrated middle school curriculum. ...
Book Chapter
Achieving a Vision of Inquiry: Rigorous, Engaging Curriculum and Instruction
The changing emphases of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) have spurred many school districts to reinvent their science programs. New cu...
Book Chapter
Adapting the JASON Project: Real Science, Real Time, Real Learning
The JASON Project is a multidisciplinary curriculum involving real science studies and comparing them to local studies performed by students. The Plym...
Book Chapter
"Re-Inventing" Science Instruction: Inquiry-Based Instruction in a Fifth/Sixth-Grade Classroom
The author's purpose in sharing her experiences in this monograph is to help other teachers who may be less confident in teaching science than they ar...
Book Chapter
What Do We Get to Do Today? The Middle School Full Option Science System Program
This chapter presents the Full Option Science System (FOSS) and the features that address the four National Science Education Standards (NSES). With F...
Book Chapter
ARIES: Science as Discovery . . . and Discovery as Science!
This chapter presents Project ARIES, developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and funded by the National Science Foundation, with ...
Book Chapter
The 15 previous stories give evidence of the Standards' impact, along with important examples for others for improvements they might consider if they ...
Book Chapter
In light of the increasing emphasis placed on the importance of teachers and their actions and the reality that we have an inadequate pool of qualifie...
Book Chapter
Teaching Science With Pictures
The state of Texas is divided into 20 Regional Education Service Centers (ESC). Schools located in three of the independent school districts of the la...
Book Chapter
Finding Out What...and How They Know
The setting for this chapter is Hawkins Middle School located in a small rural city, the county seat of one of the poorest counties in Wisconsin. In t...
Book Chapter
The reader may question how the "Teach them to fish" proverb relates to science education. Yet, a shift in emphasis from presenting knowledge through ...