Classification

Blog Post | March 2009

Snack sorting! It’s an interesting way to involve students in classifying and, while sitting together to eat, there is time to talk about why certain groupings were chosen. Children might sort by shape, create an ABAB…

Classification

Blog Post | February 2009

In last month’s issue of Science and Children, Bill Robertson asks the question “Why do we classify things in science?” He notes that many teachers teach classification as an end in itself or as a communications…

Tried and True: Thinking spatially—taking observation, classification, and communication skills to a higher level of reasoning

Journal Article | January 2009

When students classify, they embark on observing and identifying the properties of the object, and then they categorize, sort, group, organize, arrange, or grade objects into smaller and similar clusters or divisions.…

The Case Study: Sorting Potatoes for Miss Bonner: Bringing Order to Case-Study Methodology through a Classification Scheme

Journal Article | January 1998

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue, the author, while approaching the problem of…

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students

Page | February 2020

Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students Hearing loss often appears to be an invisible disability until the student enters the classroom. The challenges for students are anchored in learning language, learning how to listen and speak (if possible) and in learning how to read and write. In nearly all cases,…

NCCSTS Case Collection Teaching Resources Publications

Page | January 2023

NCCSTS Case Collection Teaching Resources Publications Publications The publications listed below have been produced by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. Books Start with a Story: The Case Study Method of Teaching College Science, edited by Clyde Freeman Herreid, originally published in 2006 by NSTA Press; reprinted by…

The Molecules That Make Me Unique

Journal Article | January 2021

Influence of Environmental Factors on the Success of At-Risk Hispanic Students in First-Semester General Chemistry

Journal Article | March 2022

This article looks at the effects of environmental factors such as classification, residence location, and employment status of Hispanic students who unsuccessfully completed first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) at…

Inquiry-Based Lab Finals

Journal Article | May 2023

5E and the PEs

Journal Article | August 2021

Oil Spill eSTEMation

Journal Article | April 2021