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Integrating Technology: Innovative Youth: An Engineering and Literacy Integrated Approach
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This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes activities that help students develop literacy and engineering skills while fostering an…
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The Seabird Mystery Lesson: Integrating Science Inquiry and Science Literacy
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Can your students explain why auklets are dying?
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Science for All: Literacy Engagement and Its Role in the Science Classroom
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's issues describes how to choose content-area reading materials with purpose.
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Engineering Encounters: Building Technological Literacy With Philosophy and Nature of Technology
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This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this issue the authors discuss a design project they have used with upper elementary students (grades 4–6). They note ways to engage…
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On the Road to Science Literacy: Building Confidence and Competency in Technical Language
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In this article we examine an oral language learning technique called choral repetition for its role in building literacy in the context of an animal physiology course.
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Science Sampler: Science and literacy—Making connections through writing
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In order to help students to make connections in science and literacy through writing, the authors present them with an open-ended question (OEQ), which is a divergent assessment in the form of a writing prompt (a…
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Novel Engineering, K–8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy (e-book)
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With the Novel Engineering approach, “students become excited about what they are reading, writing, designing, and building! This excitement in turn helps them make strides in engineering and literacy, as well as in…
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Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy (e-book)
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“The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines for mammograms in 2009. What does this mean for someone with a family history of breast cancer? Congress periodically votes on a piece of legislation…