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Archive: Master of Chemical & Life Sciences Program at the University of Maryland, March 4, 2021
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The Master of Chemical & Life Sciences program offers a professional master's degree specifically suited to the needs of secondary school biology and chemistry teachers seeking graduate-level, content-based training…
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Enabling a Culture of Change: A Life Science Faculty Learning Community Promotes Scientific Teaching
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Significant challenges to education transformation in lecture-oriented science departments include initiating and supporting a dialogue about teaching and learning among faculty whose priorities are primarily research.…
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Argument-Driven Inquiry in Life Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)
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If you’ve been wanting to bring the benefits of argument-driven inquiry to your middle school life science classes, this book will help you get started. The book provides 20 field-tested labs to help your…
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This paper describes students using critical reflection to assume the role of the director of the National Science Foundation. This exercise helps sharpen writing and persuasion skills and motivates students to think…
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Using Trade Books and Biographies to Bring the Practices of Engineering to Life
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Dubbed a “dialogue of life,” community immersion in preservice science-teacher education aims at providing a true-to-life and empowering opportunity for prospective science teachers (both elementary and secondary) to…
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One strategy for differentiating science instruction that shows promise is a shift toward valuing students’ questions and life experiences (Barton 1998; Upadhyay 2006). In this article, the authors present potential…
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How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards
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How to Read the Next Generation Science Standards The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are distinct from prior science standards in three essential ways. 1) Performance. Prior standards documents listed what students should “know” or “understand.” These ideas needed to be translated into performances that could…
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