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Modifying labs for students with special needs
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Learning Disabilities A learning disability (LD) is a neurological disorder that causes difficulty in organizing information received, remembering it, and expressing it, and therefore affects a person's basic functions such as reading, writing, comprehension, and reasoning. In simple terms, a…
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Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction.
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Best STEM Books K–12 2025 Best STEM Books winners explore problems and possible solutions in the scientific world and, where applicable, in the lives of the protagonists. Instead of focusing on specific content, the Best STEM Books emphasize real-world issues that cross disciplinary boundaries.We have chosen titles that…
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Multimodal Text Sets to Use Literature and Engage All Learners in the Science Classroom
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Understanding of evolution is foundational to be a scientifically literate citizen because it allows analysis of socioscientific issues, such as biodiversity conservation, biotechnology applications, and human-induced…
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Integrating nonfiction chapter books into a science unit
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Bringing other subjects into the classroom
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Concept maps make connections between ideas apparent, and thus would seem ideally suited to demonstrate learning. Yet, they are not widely used by instructors, particularly in large university classes. In this paper we…
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Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning
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Focus on Physics: How E = mc2 Helps Us Understand Nuclear Fission and Fusion
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Nuclear physics has an undeserved reputation for being tough for students. This article may reduce this “toughness” by showing how Einstein’s familiar equation E = mc2 relates to the reductions in mass and enormous…
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What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease
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How Can We Motivate Our Science Students?
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While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of…
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Using Storylines to Support Three-Dimensional Learning in Project-Based Science
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