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Methods and Strategies: Strategy Makeover—K-W-L to T-H-C

The K-W-L strategy works well as a preassessment tool because it reveals what students know and want to learn about a topic before instruction and as a postassessment tool because it fosters reflection. Minor modifications to the strategy can incorpo...

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Teaching for Conceptual Understanding

A series of lessons were taught in a second-grade classroom to assist students’ conceptual understanding of celestial motion. After assessing student misconceptions about space and the movement of planets and the Sun, the teacher engaged the studen...

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Editor's Note (September 2004)

The act of having students commit to an outcome makes them think. It is different than oral brainstorming because everyone is accountable. Students may not volunteer exactly what they are thinking. Like everyone else, they may just summarize. Stu...

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"A" Is for Assessment

Assessment strategies do not have to be complicated in order to inform both learning and teaching. Assessment strategies described in this article include student drawings, journal entries, lists, dramatizations, individual interviews, constructions,...

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Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program—Students of Invention

Thomas A. Edison said, "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." Well, the finalists in this year's Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Award Program had no shortage of imagination but chose more useful items with which to work. With t...

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Science 101: What causes tides?

Tides exhibit predictable cycles on daily, monthly, and yearly scales. The magnitude of the tides is dependent on the position of the Earth and Moon in relation to the Sun, but is also influenced by other factors. This is a brief introduction to what...

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Get SunWise

Providing sun-safe environments, schedules, and activities; teaching and modeling sun-safe behaviors; and implementing a sun-safe school policy are ways that schools can help protect children from sun overexposure and lay the foundation for a healthy...