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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ initial response to an ill-defined problematic situation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that in a problem situation, there is…
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 27, 2024
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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning…
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The End of Something: Blick on Flicks Looks Back
Reports Article |
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Science Podcasts in the Classroom
Reports Article |
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 14, 2024
Reports Article |
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Journal Article |
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Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit
Professional Learning Unit |
This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…
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Modeling the Coronavirus Outbreak for Cross-Discipline Teaching
Journal Article |
The Coronavirus outbreak allows for a number of possible applications to classroom teaching (biology, computer science, Earth science, physics, statistics), as well as student research. A number of simple models…
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Taking Science Home With Technology
Journal Article |
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Phenomena in Our Science Classrooms
Journal Article |
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High School Science and Engineering Fairs: Lessons Learned
Journal Article |
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Open-Ended Engineering at Family STEM Events
Journal Article |
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Responsive Teaching in Online Learning Environments
Journal Article |
Online teaching and learning have become widespread in higher education over the past two decades, and accelerated during the pandemic. Although online learning is expanding and has many benefits, instructors teaching…
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Gender Inequities Throughout STEM
Journal Article |
Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them from pursuing studies, including in…