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Methods and Strategies: Using Learning Progressions to Monitor Progress Across Grades
Learning progressions (LPs)—descriptive continuums of how students develop and demonstrate more sophisticated understanding over time—have become ...
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The National Science Education Teaching Standards state that students should be provided with opportunities to use resources outside the classroom (St...
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For a science teacher in a city, it can sometimes be a challenge to find curricula that are geared specifically toward urban students. The author tack...
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Natural Resources: Outdoor Classrooms
An outdoor classroom is the ideal vehicle for community involvement: Parents, native plant societies, 4-H, garden clubs, and master naturalists are al...
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From Mystery Seed to Mangrove Island
Introducing a mystery object is an easy strategy to implement and allows teachers to pre-assess students’ knowledge about local natural resources. M...
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Agriculture can play a key role in fostering scientific literacy because it brings important plant and ecosystem concepts into the classroom. Plus, ag...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: How It’s Made
Your students are most likely not knowledgeable about the raw materials, the design processes, and the technology involved in manufacturing the produc...
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The day the Turtle Girls received Montel’s adoption papers, piercing screams ricocheted across the school grounds instantaneously and simultaneously...