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Toward High School Biology: Understanding Growth in Living Things, Student Edition
NSTA Press Book |
Through 19 carefully sequenced lessons and activities, this unit gets middle schoolers ready for next-level learning. Students explore what happens at the molecular level so they can understand how living things grow…
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Science and Religion in Middle School and High School Classrooms
Book Chapter |
This chapter is at the heart of the conflict around teaching evolution—the classrooms of middle and high school teachers. Our overall approach gives science teachers a way to move beyond conflict and toward a classroom…
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K-12 Progressions, High School
Book Chapter |
This free sample chapter shows the K–12 progression of each of the components in the foundation box (e.g., practices, core ideas, or connection to nature of science). These matrixes will help you understand what…
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Designing Facilities for the High School (9-12)
Book Chapter |
When we participate in a school building program, we create learning environments that will last for many decades. So a major principle of good science facilities planning is to avoid building for a single curricular…
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Team Teaching Science at the High School Level
Book Chapter |
The focus of this chapter is the specific challenges of team teaching each individual discipline in the typical high school or secondary school. Although science curricula vary not only from state to state, but even…
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The High-School-to-College Transition in Science
Book Chapter |
It is important to remember the variety of competing events and pressures that first-year students face while adjusting to a different life in college. Science faculty need to understand why some students struggle…
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From NGSS to Instruction in a High School Classroom
Book Chapter |
This chapter first presents performance expectations that describe the competencies and content for instruction and assessment in a high school biology class. This is followed by a description of a teaching sequence…
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High School Science and Engineering Fairs: Lessons Learned
Journal Article |
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Gender Identity Inclusive Pedigree Chart for High School Biology
Journal Article |
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"Late-Start Mondays": The Catalyst for Change in an Urban High School
Book Chapter |
At the high school level, the task of creating a whole-school community of practice is often monumental and requires tremendous energy to disrupt the status quo. The story that follows describes the process by which a…
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Varying Instructional Methods and Assessment of Students in High School Chemistry
Book Chapter |
New content standards call for the implementation of new and varied pedagogical interventions and instructional techniques. An experimental project in which chemistry was taught using new pedagogical and assessment…
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Using Cogenerative Dialogues to Improve High School Students’ Internships With Scientists
Journal Article |
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“Black is Beautiful”: A Culturally Relevant/Responsive High School Biology Lesson
Journal Article |
This biology lesson uses the science of central dogma to “critique and question the politics of representation that systematically devalue[s] Blackness” (hooks, 1995, p.131). Students’ understanding of protein synthesis…
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