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Questions are powerful tools teachers can use to understand and scaffold students’ thinking (Clough 2007). However, not all questions are equally effective at eliciting students’ ideas or scaffolding their thinking. For…
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Going Beneath the Surface: Using Socioscientific Issues to Explore Human Impacts on Soil
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Socioscientific issues (SSIs) can help students think about the moral and ethical issues related to science. When SSI issues are based on local phenomena and issues within students’ communities, they can also resonate…
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Warming up to Inquiry: Using inquiry to teach heating and cooling of substances to 2nd graders
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Starting to teach science through inquiry can be intimidating for teachers who don’t have much experience with it. Some concerns about teaching science through inquiry often come from misunderstandings of what science…
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In this article, we use the strategies listed above to engage students in a 5E lesson on static electricity (partially addressing MS-PS2-3). We start the engage phase by using a “magic trick” as a hook to engage…
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Changes in Elementary Teachers’ Conceptions About Matter
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While research has investigated elementary teachers’ understanding of science content, such research is often limited to topics typically not addressed in elementary school curricula. Yet, research has illustrated that…
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National Science Teaching Association Welcomes New Board and Council Members
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