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How Can We Put Cooperative Learning Into Practice?
Research suggests that if you want more students to learn more material, if you want students to feel more confident about themselves, and to be motiv...
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When science teachers pass up the use of an inductive approach in their teaching, they miss a golden opportunity to improve their chances of attaining...
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There’s No Such Thing as a One-Celled Plant or Animal
Early biologists classified living organisms based on what they knew about life: All living things were either animals or plants. The fossil record as...
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Editor's Note: Happy New Year and Welcome to the New Millennium
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The idea for the Scope, Sequence, and Coordination (SS&C) reform effort was conceived in the early 1980s, primarily in response to practices in U.S. s...
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What’s It Like Where You Live? Meeting the Standards through technology-enhanced inquiry
“What’s It Like Where You Live?” is a unit that involves an extended comparison of biomes, defined as regions characterized by distinctive clima...
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The Constructivist Learning Model
Much cognitive science research has been used to support a new model of learning. This most promising new model is called the Constructivist Learning ...
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In 1669, a German alchemist named Hennig Brandt identified the element we now call phosphorus. He was the first in his craft to be immortalized becaus...