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Crosscutting Concepts as Productive Ways of Thinking
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Tips and techniques for creative teaching
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This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about researching a problem. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students are aware of the need to learn as much as possible about how…
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Climate Change Causes Extreme Weather Events: Yes, No, or Wrong Question?
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We carried out a study of an instructional model that integrates flipped classroom with active learning, in-class activities into our biology course, using a mixed methods research design. According to the survey (n =…
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Evaluating Lessons for Sensemaking Using the NSTA Sensemaking Tool
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The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how to approach a problem. The probe is designed to gain insight into how students think about an engineering design process (EDP) and the kinds of…
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A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. The instructor explored how to integrate the instructional approach…
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Re-imagining the Role of Families as Equal Partners in STEM Learning
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Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning
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This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…
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An Interview With Cognitive Scientist Lindsay Portnoy
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Cognitive scientists study how people learn. This type of knowledge can be applied in a diverse array of fields, ranging from advertising to journalism and academia. Lindsay Portnoy is a lecturer at Northeastern…
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Sphero Robots and the Periodic Table
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Students review the periodic table by coding robots.
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COVID-19: Sanitizing Lab PPE and More
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