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Promoting Learning for All Through Explore-Before-Explain
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) highlight the importance of creating more equitable learning environments and engaging all students in sc...
By Patrick Brown, Jay McTighe, and Rodger Bybee
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Scientific Literacy: Lives could depend on it!
Carl Sagan famously said “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science ...
By Charlotte Moser
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Preparing for the Great American Eclipse of 2024
The Great American Eclipse of 2017 path of totality passed across the United States on Monday August 21, 2017, from Madras, Oregon to Columbia, South ...
By Kurtz Miller
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Beavers are social mammals who live in groups, known as colonies, and they construct dams and lodges, which modify the surrounding landscape. In their...
By Jill Nugent
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Writing these columns often requires a considerable amount of reading and then thinking—both alone and always out loud to my wife as I try to explai...
By Bob Riddle
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Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins said, “There are those who fear reason as cold, bleak, cheerless, unpoetic. That’s not just untrue; it’s ...
By Katie Coppens
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Outdoor Teaching and Learning in Natural Spaces and Outdoor Classrooms
On a humid, sunny day in late July, a group of middle school science teachers closed out three days of teacher professional development (PD) on a natu...
By Samantha Lindgren, Meghan McCleary, Susan Gasper, Amanda Nieves, Kara Stengren, and Amira Shabana
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Inheritance: It’s More Complicated Than That
For the past 60 years, teaching and learning the science of inheritance and biological variation has largely been centered in Mendelian genetics. In c...
By Whitney Thwaite, Sara C. Porter, and Hilleary Osheroff
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Using iNaturalist to Support Place-Based Learning and Data Analysis
Often, we think that to learn about nature, students must be in a “natural” place to experience the environment, but this assumption can be proble...
By Amanda V. Garner and Joshua Rosenberg
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Questions are powerful tools teachers can use to understand and scaffold students’ thinking (Clough 2007). However, not all questions are equally ef...
By Jesse Wilcox, Kean Roberts, Jacob Kaemmer, Jessica McKenzie, and Carson McClain
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Teach Sublimation With Markers!
Sublimation, the change of state from solid to gas, is a challenging concept for many students to grasp and a curious phenomenon to investigate. Our e...
By Christine G. Schnittka and Mark Brenneman
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How many times have you found yourself sitting in a cafeteria or classroom staring at a professional development PowerPoint being presented by someone...
By Adriana E. Martinez and Alejandra O. Martinez
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Student Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR)
As suggested in A Framework for K–12 Science Education (National Research Council 2012), “Scientific knowledge is a particular kind of knowledge w...
By Jamie Rapkiewcz, Jongchan Park, Ying-Chih Chen, and Michelle E. Jordan
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Differentiate Science Lessons by Using VR in Station Rotations
Blended learning strategies combined with innovative technology, for example, virtual reality (VR), can be used in science classrooms to differentiate...
By Michael McKenzie and Alex Fegely