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Science Sampler: Lingo of learning crossword
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Test your knowledge of basic science terms and educational terminology with this Lingo of Learning crossword puzzle.
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Science 2.0: Tablets as Learning Hubs
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the use of tablet computers as a digital hub for learning.
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Reading to Learn Science as an Active Process
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One way to help students learn to read science and teach the content simultaneously is by incorporating classroom strategies that actively engage students in thinking, talking, reading, and writing about science. To…
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Learning by Doing: Teaching the Process of Inquiry
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Through this "blind" observation exercise, you can bring science alive using inquiry to link the needs, interest, and experiences of your students. The authors provide a general model for inquiry lessons as well as…
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Active Learning Strategies: The Top 10
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Conceptual change instruction recognizes that students bring personal, or naive, conceptions to the classroom, which they use to explain their world, interpret situations, and create meaning (Driver et al. 2007). But…
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Middle school students are very interested in learning how their brains work. In this article, the authors share three activities that explore learning styles. Students take inkblot tests, answer a learning style…
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Cartoons—An Alternative Learning Assessment
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In order to fully understand student learning, we science teachers need to know the ideas that students bring into the classroom. Plus, good assessment calls for ongoing evaluation of students’ progress and difficulties…
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Methods and Strategies: Inventive Learning Stations
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Learning stations can be used for myriad purposes—to teach concepts, integrate subject matter, build interest, and allow for inquiry—the possibilities are limited only by the imagination of the teacher and the supplies…
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Weekly Reports: Student Reflections on Learning
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Weekly reports, a structured journal form of formative assessment, allow instructors to receive information from the students, to address students’ difficulties in a timely manner, and to alter their instruction based…
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Enabling All Students to Learn Science
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Communicating with students in today's high school science classroom is challenging for teachers because the majority of them speak only English. Many of their students, however, do not speak English as their primary…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Weaving a web of learning
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Teachers of all content areas, the arts included, must collaboratively plan meaningful instructional units around themes, issues, or problems that can be investigated and assessed using a cohesive, interdisciplinary…
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Writing-to-learn activities are designed to use writing as a process in which students generate and clarify understanding of scientific concepts for themselves, rather than simply communicating with a teacher for…
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Teaching Science to Students with Learning Differences
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Recent legislation, such as No Child Left Behind and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) amendments of 1997 and 2004, emphasizes the importance of teaching students with mild disabilities in the…
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Teaching Teachers: Lessons in Cooperative Learning
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In this article, the author provides a list of suggestions, based on personal experience, to help preservice teachers start using cooperative learning.
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Methods and Strategies: The 6-E Learning Model
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Most teachers are familiar with the 5-E model of science instruction—Engage, Explore, Explain, Expand, and Evaluate. This model adds a sixth "E" to the tool: "e-search." E-search encompasses any use of electronic media…
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