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Web Seminar: NSTA Science Update: Professional Learning Opportunities at NSTA, August 27, 2019
Web Seminar |
Join us on Tuesday, August 27, from 7:00 – 8:00 pm Eastern time and learn about upcoming onsite/online professional learning opportunities available via NSTA. Whether you desire NSTA experts to partner with you in…
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Designing Peer Review for Pedagogical Success: What Can We Learn From Professional Science?
Journal Article |
This article compares peer review in professional versus education settings, summarizing key aspects of scientific peer review and reflecting on how these relate to the process as experienced by students. Consideration…
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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 1: Using Science Notebooks for Sensemaking
Professional Learning Course Module |
Science notebooks are a powerful and flexible tool to support students’ sensemaking. The science notebook creates a space for students to document their thinking, develop and revise models, plan investigations, and…
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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 2: Launching Notebooks with Students
Professional Learning Course Module |
In this module, you will use a notebook organization continuum to examine a variety of ways to organize science notebooks. You will analyze teacher-directed and student-directed approaches to notebook entries and use a…
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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 4: Assessing Student Notebooks
Professional Learning Course Module |
In this module, you will experience ways to use science notebooks for formative assessment. You will gain a deeper understanding of the disadvantages of grading notebook entries. You will have an opportunity to apply…
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Science Notebooks in Student Centered Classrooms: Capstone
Professional Learning Course Module |
Course Goals Build an understanding of how sensemaking is supported by the use of science notebooks by exploring the purposes and features of science notebooks; the organizational continuum of teacher-…
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Journal Article |
The field of environmental communication focuses on how multidisciplinary science, natural resource management, and environmental policy are communicated to different audiences. This activity uses the "jigsaw" approach…
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Professional Learning Community
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Articles and journals that explain how to create and maintain professional learning communities.
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Blog Post |
For a project I’m working on, I wanted to revisit what I know about cooperative learning. When I Googled the topic, among the many resources I found was one from a professional development series Concept to…