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Making <em> Learning </em> a Never-Ending Story
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Initially, middle school students and their parents displayed mixed emotions when shown 10-meter-long science murals at the beginning of the school year. However, once they discovered that story concepts illustrate and…
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Personal Response Systems and Learning: It Is the Pedagogy That Matters, Not the Technology
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This study investigated whether using clickers in conjunction with lecture tutorials yields higher student learning gains than using only lecture tutorials. The results suggest that the clickers do not lead to…
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Science Sampler: Using the arts to enhance science learning
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Over the years, the author has developed several lessons in which songs, arts and crafts, drama, and body motions are used to better facilitate student learning in life science. This article presents a sample of songs…
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Augmenting Guided-Inquiry Learning With a Blended Classroom Approach
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This article describes the implementation of a blended guided-inquiry course in chemistry for nonscience honors students.
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Multimedia Connected STEM Learning With Middle School Students
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Find out how Denver middle school students practiced digital storytelling as they delved deeply into STEM topics that interested them. Since only approximately 10% of elementary students regularly engage in…
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A Screencasting Strategy to Support STEM Learning in the Early Grades
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Learn how a research–practice partnership used screencasting to promote early elementary students’ mathematics learning and communication. It is a winter day in Auburn, Maine. Twenty second-grade students in…
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Collaboration + Good Coffee = Connected Science Learning Success
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A collaboration between two North Carolina state agencies allows in-school and out-of-school educators to share knowledge, engage students in in-school and out-of-school opportunities, and develop learning communities…
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First Issue of Connected Science Learning a Great Success
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CSL editor Dennis Schatz discusses the response to our first issue, the journal’s new serialized publication format, and this issue’s theme, professional development. All of us associated with producing…
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Learning Simple Machines Through Cross-Age Collaborations
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In this project, introductory college physics students (noneducation majors) were asked to teach simple machines to a class of second graders. This nontraditional activity proved to be a successful way to encourage…
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Classroom Management and Inquiry-Based Learning: Finding the Balance
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Inquiry practices often involve more student-centered activities where students interact more intensively with materials and with other students during investigations. In addition to monitoring the learning taking place…
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Teacher Research: Stories of Learning and Growing (e-Book)
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Think you don’t have time to do research? How about professional growth—think that’s out of reach? Let your peers take you on their journeys and inspire you through their stories in Teacher Research. You will gain…
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