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A Twenty-Year Survey of Science Literacy Among College Undergraduates
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First results from a 20-year survey of science knowledge and attitudes toward science among undergraduates are presented. Nearly 10,000 students taking astronomy as part of a general education requirement answered a set…
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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…