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Sliding and Colliding Into Physics
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C2AST (Critical and Cultural Approaches to Ambitious Science Teaching)
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Planning Virtual Science Fairs
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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound is produced by vibrating matter.
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Computing in Bioinformatics and Engaged Student Learning
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The field of biology education—and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines more broadly—has witnessed two major shifts in the past decade: (i) the increased awareness of research-based…
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Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom
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In a linguistically diverse fourth-grade classroom, students carry out an investigation to answer the lesson question: How are we able to see objects? Working collaboratively in groups, students are given a lidded box…
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
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This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…
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Creating Podcasts as Science Learning
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A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood
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First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…
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Project-based learning (PBL) instructional methods attempt to make connections between students and their ability to solve real problems. We framed our qualitative study within sociocultural theory and used the…
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Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM
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Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task
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This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting.
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Arguing About a Chemical Change
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Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction