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Learning the Temperature Dependency of Matter by Making Ice Cream
Journal Article |
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Engaging Students in Online Learning Using Teacher Demonstration
Journal Article |
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Learning STEM by Building Airplanes
Journal Article |
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Immersive Learning Through Experiential Inquiry of a Virtual Epidemic
Journal Article |
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Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning
Journal Article |
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Motivating Three-Dimensional Learning From Students’ Questions
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Learning About Culture and Sustainable Harvesting of Native Plants
Journal Article |
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Using Multiple Models to Learn about COVID-19
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Expanding Earth Science Learning Through International Collaboration
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Outdoor Teaching and Learning in Natural Spaces and Outdoor Classrooms
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On a humid, sunny day in late July, a group of middle school science teachers closed out three days of teacher professional development (PD) on a nature hike at a forest preserve. Here they engaged as learners, looking…
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Promoting Learning for All Through Explore-Before-Explain
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) highlight the importance of creating more equitable learning environments and engaging all students in science (NGSS Lead States 2013). In professional learning, we target…
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Applying the Science of Learning to the Education of Prospective Science Teachers
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Cognitive scientists have studied the highly organized and efficiently utilized characteristics of experts’ knowledge in thinking and problem solving. The authors discuss the important implications of this body of…
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Reflections on Fostering Teacher Inquiries Into Science Learning and Teaching
Book Chapter |
Emily van Zee is an associate professor of science education at Oregon State University and co-organizer of Teacher Researcher Day at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) national conferences. She has been a…
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Collaborative Conversations and Intentional Reflections on Teaching and Learning Physics
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Dorothy Simpson taught mathematics for 15 years before she started teaching physics at Mercer Island High School near Seattle. Now retired, she is serving as a volunteer at a local elementary school with special…
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Using Computer Simulations to Enhance Science Teaching and Learning
Book Chapter |
Technological advances have increasingly brought instructional digital technologies into the science classroom. Teachers may have greater access to Internet-connected classroom computers, wireless laptop carts, computer…