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Methods and Strategies: Teaching in Real Time
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shows how to integrate continuous formative assessment into inquiry-based classroom instruction.
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Methods and Strategies: "Inquirize" Your Teaching
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The basic elements of inquiry include: ask a question, conduct an investigation, make observations and collect data, use data to develop an explanation, and communicate results. The 5E learning cycle model is very…
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Methods and Strategies: Concept-Focused Teaching
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One of the main problems we face in science teaching is that students are learning isolated facts and missing central concepts. For instance, consider what you know about life cycles. Chances are that you remember…
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Methods and Strategies: Teaching About Animals
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When asking about animals, it is hard to find a person who doesn’t recall a beloved pet or share that they’ve always loved dolphins, snakes, or ladybugs. A study of animals in an early childhood classroom, then, would…
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The authors offer recommendations to universities interested in establishing a paired teaching program and to faculty members preparing to pair-teach.
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Methods and Strategies: The Teaching-With-Analogies Model
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Teachers often use analogies and are unaware of it—they are using them automatically. Whenever they begin an explanation with “It’s just like…,” “It’s similar to…,” or “Think of it this way…,” they are using an analogy…
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Methods and Strategies: Using Argument-Based Inquiry Strategies for STEM Infused Science Teaching
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This article focuses on an argument-based inquiry (ABI) approach to a fourth-grade unit on waves. A fourth-grade teacher included multiple…
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Online Connections: Journal of College Science Teaching
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Online Connections: Journal of College Science Teaching January/February 2021 Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction Supplemental tables Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy Appendixes and additional resources…
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Inclusive Strategies for the Science Classroom
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