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Journal Article
This article describes an instructional model that science teachers can use to promote and support student engagement in scientific argumentation. Thi...
Journal Article
Going Bananas Over Fruit: Using Habits of Mind to Foster Nutritional Literacy
Science literacy for all students is an education goal in the United States, as well as in many other parts of the world. Habits of mind are the skill...
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Teaching Students to Create Undiscovered Ideas
Science curricula often guide us to teach students just the facts, but our students need to be prepared for life in the 21st century. Since technology...
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Embracing Learner’s Ideas About Diffusion and Osmosis: A Coupled-Inquiry Approach
Learning about osmosis and diffusion is often a challenging task for middle school students. Here the authors present a lesson that was converted from...
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Editor’s Roundtable: Nurturing Scientific Habits of Mind
Science process skills and content knowledge are not enough to produce the scientists and scientifically literate citizens we need in the 21st century...
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Science Sampler: How do we know what we know? A look at schemas
A schema is like a file folder in the mind, a knowledge structure that holds all of a learner’s experiences with a given topic. Schemas are thought ...
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Tried and True: Looking for Questions
During the first day of school, eighth-grade students often receive hour after hour of specific rules and classroom procedures. However, the author ta...
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Scope on Safety: Rethinking the Use of Hand Sanitizers
Recent concerns about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and swine flu have prompted many parents to demand that hand sanitizers be ma...
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Editor’s Roundtable: Classroom management à la Goldilocks
Classroom management is a difficult balancing act. Like Goldilocks, teachers should sample all the classroom management techniques available to them t...