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Developing science process skills and participating in inquiry-based activities help students gain the foundation for job skills outside of school. Overall, this workshop was highly successful, and in-service teachers…
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Springing Into Inquiry: Using Student Ideas to Investigate Seasons
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Explore student misconceptions to get behind the true reason for the seasons.
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Using Interactive Science Notebooks for Inquiry-Based Science
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Tired of finding students' work overflowing from the garbage can on the last day of school? Try using an Interactive Science Notebook approach to help students make connections to their learning. This approach…
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Guest Editorial: Inquiry, Process Skills, and Thinking in Science
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Inquiry is central to science education today. But understanding its many nuances is still an issue according to research (Flick and Lederman 2004). And understanding is the first step to implementations. In this…
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Deriving Ohm's Law Using a Guided-Inquiry Investigation
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Derive the mathematical relationship between voltage and a current flowing through a resistor.
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Food and Energy for All: Turning a Demonstration Into an Inquiry Activity
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Explore the reactants of photosynthesis to explain that they are raw materials and not food.
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Tried and True: Fossils, Inquiry, and the English Language Learner
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue describes how a teacher integrates language-acquisition skills into her lessons while allowing students to engage in…