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Modeling Olympus Mons from the Earth
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Compare mountains found on Earth and Mars by creating two-dimensional block models. Students will be amazed by the immensity of the sheild volcano Olympus Mons located on Mars.
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After the Bell: Modeling museum collaboration
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Entering a partnership with a local museum is a great way to gain access to materials, facilities, and science expertise that might be unavailable at the school. This article contains a description of a museum/school…
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Time on Your Hands: Modeling Time
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Building physical models relative to a concept can be an important activity to help students develop and manipulate abstract ideas and mental models that often prove difficult to grasp. One such concept is time. A…
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Methods and Strategies: Using Models Effectively
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Models are crucial to science teaching and learning, yet they can create unforeseen and overlooked challenges for students and teachers. This article guides students through age-appropriate, critical analyses of…
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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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Guest Editorial: Minds, Models, and Maps
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An opinion piece about the benefits of visual learning devices.
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Making and Measuring a Model of a Salt Marsh
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Students are often confused by the difference between the terms accuracy and precision. In the following activities, students explore the definitions of accuracy and precision while learning about salt march ecology and…
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Research on how people learn and the incorporation of that research into lesson plans and curriculum demands that the highly successful 5E model be expanded to a 7E model. The 7E model proposes the addition of…
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A new activity model for scientific inquiry is presented here with the overall intent of providing students and teachers with a deeper understanding of how science is really done. With this model students learn that the…
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Models-Based Science Teaching (e-book)
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Humans perceive the world by constructing mental models—telling a story, interpreting a map, reading a book. Every way we interact with the world involves mental models, whether creating new ones or building on existing…
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Directed Student Inquiry: Modeling in Roborovsky Hamsters
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In this inquiry-based activity, Roborovsky hamsters are used to provide students with an opportunity to develop their skills of analysis, inquiry, and design. These hamsters are easy to maintain, yet offer students a…
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