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Crosscutting Concepts: Strengthening Science and Engineering Learning (Book Sample)
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Maybe you have a good grasp of disciplinary core ideas and science and engineering practices—critical parts of the Next Generation Science Standards—but you are looking for more resources about integrating crosscutting…
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Constructive student roles for authentic collaboration in engineering design challenges
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Student roles can promote collaboration and individual accountability in groups during engineering design challenges. However, student disengagement may occur if students do not perceive value in their roles. We…
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Student advice for success in high structure science and engineering courses
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High structure courses ask students to be active participants in the learning process with pre-class content acquisition and assessment, in-class active learning exercises, and after-class review assignments. While…
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Introducing Engineering Aims and Values through Rover Wheel Design
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Engineering activities often emphasize the practices of engineers, but pay less attention to aspects of the nature of engineering. One important aspect of the nature of engineering is an understanding of the aims and…
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This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers.
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Early Childhood Engineering and Natural Resources
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Engineering Encounters: Planting the Seeds of Engineering
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This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.
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Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering
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We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were interested in how the ELC would support teachers’ science, mathematics, and…
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Science Beyond the Laboratory: The Intriguing Career Paths of 14 Scientists and Engineers
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A planetary scientist working on human rights issues? A bird brain researcher hosting a radio show? In this chapter, the authors present vignettes of real scientists who found themselves traveling unique career paths…
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Scientists as Partners in K–12 Science: Engineering, Science, and Technology Careers
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While scientific specialization has been responsible for many remarkable and rapid advances within scientific disciplines, this strength becomes a weakness when it comes time for members of various disciplines to…
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Core Idea ETS2: Links Among Engineering, Technology, Science, and Society
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This component of the disciplinary core idea (DCI) brings together two movements in science education—environmental education and science, technology and society. Learning about the Influence of engineering, technology…
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Design Talks: Whole-Class Conversations during Engineering Design Units
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Teacher-facilitated whole-class conversations can help elementary students apply the full power of the NGSS science and engineering practices to an engineering design process. In this article we describe and provide…
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Generating opportunities: Strategies to elevate Science and Engineering Practices using ChatGPT
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Within this Idea Bank, we offer practical strategies to integrate ChatGPT across three science and engineering practices (i.e., asking questions and defining problems, planning and carrying out investigations, and…
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Engineering Encounters: Balancing Engineering and Science Instruction
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This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering. This issue describes how to teach third graders about balanced and unbalanced forces.
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A study of tops allowed third graders to explore the toys of past generations while learning about engineering design.
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