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Teaching Energy Across the Sciences, K-12 (e-book)
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It’s a simple fact: Students will learn about energy more effectively if teachers present it consistently in all grades and across all scientific disciplines. This book gives you the strategies and tools you need to…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Energy Makes Things Happen
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue attempts to shed light on the topic of energy.
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The Energy Retrofit of a Building: A Journey Through Bloom’s Learning Domains
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At Colorado College, the energy retrofit of a building is used as a service-learning research project to teach physics and chemistry in a variety of courses. In introductory courses for nonscience majors, the project…
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Science Sampler: A first energy grant—Pinwheel electrical generation
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This is an interdisciplinary activity—with art, science, and math classes involved—where students design their own pinwheels, and then attach their design to a DC generator (motor). Prior to testing their designs,…
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The Many Metaphors of Energy: Using Analogies as a Formative Assessment Tool
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This article describes how student-generated analogies are shown to be an effective means of eliciting ideas about energy in systems from biology, chemistry, and physics.
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Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity, Student Edition (e-book)
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How do our bodies manage to heal wounds, build the stamina to run marathons, and give us the energy—even while we’re sleeping—to keep us alive and functioning? Matter and Energy for Growth and Activity prompts high…
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Science Sampler: Solar Panels and alternative energy in the eighth-grade classroom
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In this solar panels and alternative energy project, students were challenged to develop a researchable question about solar energy and electronics and devise a means of answering it. Students worked cooperatively, with…
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Citizen Science: Power Up Science Learning With NOVA’s Energy Lab
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This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. This month's column will help teachers transform science learning from passive…
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Science 101: How Should We Label Different Kinds of Energy?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses different types of energy.
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Science 101: What Do Energy Drinks Do to Your Body?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author discusses the effects of energy drinks on a young person's body.
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