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Long-Term Plant Growth Experiment
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This high school life science, physical science, and engineering and technology lesson has the following learning goals for students: plan an experiment to explain factors influencing plant growth; collect and record…
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Interactive Research: Experiments and Field Studies
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This section provides advice to help students choose from a wide range of ideas for research projects. It also provides a series of worksheets designed to guide progress through the various steps of designing and…
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National Conference on Science Education Kansas City 2023 Plan Your Experience
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National Conference on Science Education Kansas City 2023 Plan Your Experience
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STEM Education Within the West Point Experience
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At conferences or meetings, West Point faculty are often asked, “What’s it like to teach at West Point?” To answer this question we present the unique model that West Point uses to bridge traditional higher education…
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Virtual and Sensory Experiences
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Adapting Existing Curriculum for Equitable Learning Experiences
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Essay: Using Everyday Experience to Teach Science
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How does everyday experience function in science learning and teaching? Is everyday experience a source of student misconceptions? Or is it an essential foundation of science learning? This essay examines everyday…
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Experimenting With Force and Motion Using Origami Frogs
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Objects in motion and the forces that move them are the subjects of this lesson. This practical series of activities offers students a dynamic understanding of Newton’s three laws of motion. In particular, the third law…
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Science with Attitude: An Informal Science Education Experience
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Kansas City's Science City Summer Camp is an eight-week program for children of ages 6-12 from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Drawing on the knowledge that people have diverse learning styles, Science City…
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Enhancing the Inquiry Experience: Authentic Research in the Classroom
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Inquiry in science classrooms involves the ability to pose a question, explore phenomena relating to the question, acquire new understandings, communicate new ideas, and relate or compare ideas with what other…
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Scientists and Engineers DO EXPERIMENTS TO ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS
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In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers do experiments to answer their questions. They read the book Noa the Little Scientist, by Shenell L. T. Bolden. After reading, students perform a simple…
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Connecting Hands-On With Minds-On Experiences
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This chapter shows why the exact placement of activities in instruction is pivotal in learning and compares two different hands-on approaches. Assertions are provided about why “explore-before-explain” teaching is…
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A Teacher's Perspective: Using Students' Experience to Understand Science
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Can students use their knowledge of natural phenomena to make sense of science in school? How can teachers use this knowledge to construct meaning in the classroom? Renote Jean-François, an English-as-a-second-language…
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Diagnostic Assessment: Discrepant Event or Essential Educational Experiment?
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In this activity, learners are asked to complete sample diagnostic assessments that model how nongraded, preinstructional “tests” support learner-centered curriculum and instruction. These kinds of tests, the specific…
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