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Balancing Individual and Collective Agency in Informal STEM Learning Experiences
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Innovative Technology Enhances Outdoor Learning Experiences With Playground Physics
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Hearing All Voices to Promote Learning Orientation and Effective Collaboration
Journal Article |
Motivation and collaboration intersect in important ways in a science classroom. One important motivational component of collaborative work is what students understand the goal of that work to be (Ames 1992). When…
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Using iNaturalist to Support Place-Based Learning and Data Analysis
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Often, we think that to learn about nature, students must be in a “natural” place to experience the environment, but this assumption can be problematic on multiple levels. Not all schools have the resources to take…
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Celebrating Cultural Diversity: Science Learning for All—An Introduction
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What is a “multicultural” classroom? Classrooms, even if they are filled with non-majority students, are not necessarily multicultural. There are three elements necessary for a truly multicultural science-learning…
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Reaching the Zone of Optimal Learning: The Alignment of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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The authors discuss curriculum, instruction, and assessment and how their integration enables students to achieve a strong knowledge base in science. After examining conventional beliefs and more contemporary views of…
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On the Role and Impact of Formative Assessment on Science Inquiry Teaching and Learning
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In this chapter, the authors begin by describing what they mean by formative assessment and outline the potential and challenges of trying to implement and study this promising technique for scientific inquiry teaching…
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From Practice to Research and Back: Perspectives and Tools in Assessing for Learning
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In this chapter, the authors draw on research and teacher practice to share the story of their own professional inquiry that led them to an exciting marginal space between the worlds of classroom teachers and education…
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Time Flies When You’re Learning About Scale!
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Not many students would forget to say “Dinosaurs!” if you mention the Jurassic period, yet the word scale only conjures up ideas of measuring objects. Most students automatically think of measuring mass, volume, or…
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Super-Absorbent Polymers: Minds-On Learning and Brain "Growth"
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Super-absorbent polymers (SAPs) absorb and retain water up to several hundred times their mass and increase in volume up to 600%. Unlike this prop, students’ brains do not grow/learn by passive absorption of received…
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What Can We Learn From the Original Sputnik Moment?
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This chapter reviews the Sputnik era—a significant turning point for the STEM disciplines—and reforms of the STEM disciplines. The chapter includes the historical discussion of the national mission and insights specific…
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Reconsidering Large-Scale Assessment to Heighten Its Relevance to Learning
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In contrast to classroom assessments that can provide immediate feedback in the context of ongoing instruction, large-scale assessments are necessarily broader survey instruments, administered once-per-year and…
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Traveling the Inquiry Continuum: Learning Through Teacher Action Research
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This chapter addresses the More Emphasis on Teaching and the Content and Inquiry Standards from the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Using the knowledge gained through the Community of Excellence in…
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Active Learning as a Way to Interest More Students in Science Careers
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, the experiences of a science educator and two technology education (TE) classroom teachers are offered. The school is a rural middle school in a Midwestern state where authors collaborated to promote…
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Helping Students Understand the Minds-On Side of Learning Science
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This collaboration between a fourth-grade teacher and university researcher resulted in the development of the Cognitive Strategies Inventory, an assessment instrument targeting writing, discussing, computing, reading,…
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