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Journal Article

In the Walking Out Graphs Lesson described here, students experience several types of representations used to describe motion, including words, sentences, equations, graphs, data tables, and actions. The most important theme of this lesson is that st...

Journal Article

Visualizing the Earth and Moon Relationship via Scaled Drawings

Students’ difficulties with accurately conceptualizing the relationships among the Earth, Moon, and Sun are well documented. Any teacher who has seen the film A Private Universe (Schneps and Sadler 1988) will remember the challenge the interviewees...

Journal Article

Big Ideas at a Very Small Scale

The purpose of this article is to share a learning-cycle sequence of lessons designed to convey the particulate nature of matter through use of physical models and analogical thinking. This activity was adapted from Conceptual Chemistry, a long-runni...

Journal Article

Using Powers of 10 to Help Students Develop Temporal Benchmarks

One of the greatest challenges for middle school Earth science teachers is helping our students get a feel for the magnitude of the long spans that make up Earth’s history. The intent of the strategy presented here is to help middle school students...

Journal Article

Teacher’s Toolkit: Building a vision of effective science instruction—How an observation guide supports dialogue

To help establish common language, to shape a common vision for a science program, guide individual and group reflection on instruction, and support partner teachers in eliciting the involvement of their colleagues, the North Cascades and Olympic Sci...