Learning From the Fruit Fly

Journal Article | October 2016

A card game for teaching Mendel’s laws, meiosis, and Punnett squares.

A Learning Cycle for All Students

Journal Article | February 2011

The National Science Education Standards are designed to provide a vision of scientific literacy for all students—regardless of age, race, ethnic background, English-language proficiency, socioeconomic status,…

Real Earthquakes, Real Learning

Journal Article | August 2003

One teacher took her class on a year long earthquake expedition. The goal was to monitor the occurrences of real earthquakes during the year and mark their locations with push pins on a wall-sized world map in the…

Learning Science Using Music

Journal Article | September 2011

The author works with a chorus teacher to create an interdisciplinary unit using music to supplement the science curriculum. This particular subject involved creating lyrics and music to help students learn cellular…

Using Newspapers to Facilitate Learning

Journal Article | November 2003

Incorporating newspapers into a science course encourages students to take control of their learning. Assignments related to newspapers facilitate active learning in a classroom environment focused on the learner.…

The Early Years: A Progression of Learning

Journal Article | June 2015

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue offers an activity in which children explore the properties of ceramic clay, learn related vocabulary, and…

A Partnership for Problem-Based Learning

Journal Article | November 2005

So many demands are placed on high school teachers today. But the right kind of professional development can help teachers meet these challenges. A partnership among a high school biology teacher, a graduate student,…

Commentary: Learning Techniques for Teachers

Journal Article | November 2002

An opinion piece about how simple reading strategies are dynamic, timesaving, learning techniques.

The Affective Elements of Science Learning

Journal Article | December 2010

Student attitudes can have a positive or negative effect on learning. According to Duschl, Schweingruber, and Shouse, “[students’] goals for science learning, their beliefs about their ability to do science, and the…

Problem-Based Learning Tools

Journal Article | October 2008

One way of implementing project-based science (PBS) is to use problem-based learning (PBL), in which students formulate their own problems. These problems are often ill-structured, mirroring complex real-life problems…

Learning to Make Systematic Decisions

Journal Article | March 2006

How do communities deal with the needs of a growing population? How do they manage limited resources like land, energy, and water? How do they balance the needs of humans against the needs of native ecosystems? The case…

The Early Years: Measuring Learning

Journal Article | June 2011

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month’s issue the activity assesses what children understand about measurement.

STEM Learning Across Boundaries

Journal Article | January 2017

It’s important to acknowledge that words matter in research communities. Bronwyn Bevan discusses the language surrounding in-school and out-of-school communities used in Connected Science Learning.   The goal of…

Perspectives: Examining the Learning Cycle

Journal Article | December 2006

Cognitive scientists tell us that students need to relate new ideas to their experience and place new ideas into a framework for understanding (Bransford, Brown, and Cocking 2001). Thus exploring phenomena before…