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Preservice Science Teachers Practice Teaching Online through 4E Instructional Model
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This article is prepared as part of a “Practice Teaching in Science” course of a teacher education program aiming for developing prospective science teachers’ teaching through inquiry-based instruction involving…
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Teaching Plate Tectonics to Diverse Students Using the 5E and 5R Instructional Model
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Use of a Linked-Course Model to Teach Scientific Writing to First-Year Undergraduates
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The ability to read and compose original scientific literature is critical to educating informed citizens, yet may be severely lacking in undergraduate curricula. We developed a linked course offering in fall 2017…
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Emphasis on the particle nature of everyday matter can improve student understanding of density
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Modeling for Ecological Engineering
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Students create iterative models to make sense of pine beetle outbreaks in North America
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Using Climate Models to Learn About Global Climate Change
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An argumentative writing prompt model is presented for use in a general chemistry class designed for nonscience major students. The purpose of this instructional model is to support students with rich experiences to…
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Using Computational Thinking and Modeling to Build Water and Watershed Literacy
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In light of the increasing emphasis placed on the importance of teachers and their actions and the reality that we have an inadequate pool of qualified science and mathematics teachers to meet our needs, many reform…
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Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12 (Book Sample)
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This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the…
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The K20 Model develops professional learning communities (PLCs) and has been successful in district-wide and school initiatives across Oklahoma. It is based on four interrelated structures for engaging people in…
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This article explores results from a 3-year model of laboratory instruction, Project Synapse, that synthesized biology, chemistry, and communication curricula for first-year science majors at a STEM-focused university.…
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Integrating the Five Practices and Model-Based Inquiry to Facilitate Meaningful Science Discourse
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As undergraduate institutions rely more heavily on teaching assistants (TAs) they are simultaneously encouraging implementation of course-based research experiences (CBREs). Due to the dynamic nature of CBREs, it is…