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Experiment Design: Getting Experiments to Work: Repeatability
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This chapter features five investigations from Starting Points presented in Chapter 1 and gives a scenario of “the test of a fair test” for each. If a test is a fair test, it is expected to be repeatable. This is…
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Interdisciplinary Work: Don't Be Afraid of the Good Teachers
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This chapter focuses on how to collaborate with other teachers in your classroom. It provides a guide for identifying teachers to work with, as well as good strategies for building interdisciplinary units with your…
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Working with Teachers in Assessment-Related Professional Development
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Professional development related to everyday classroom interactions can require a shift in the teacher’s priorities in the classroom from a focus on managing activity and behavior to a mind-set of managing learning…
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Lessons That Work: Science Lessons for English Learners
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In this chapter, the authors present formats for science lesson plans that incorporate inquiry and language and science objectives. Teachers from elementary, middle, and secondary levels describe successful lessons and…
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Lively Science: Live Organisms Are Worth the Work
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Middle school is the perfect setting for teaching life science. Observing and studying living organisms are critical to a good, strong program. Preserved specimens, computer simulations, photographs, and videos may be…
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Examining Student Work and Interactions That Reflect the NGSS
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This chapter, by Deb M. Kneser, discusses the collaborative analysis of student work as an effective method of professional development. By engaging in a collaborative review of student work, science educators can…
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Rescuing a Lab That Isn’t Working by Integrating the Science Practices
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This high school lesson for any science discipline has the following learning goals for students: develop a testable hypothesis based on their observations; design and conduct an experiment to test their hypothesis; and…
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Identi-Beads and Identi-Badges as Strategies to Encourage STEM Identity Work
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NSTA Press Book |
A Joint publication of Corwin and NSTA Press In Learning Science by Doing Science, you get classic activities to teach the key ideas of science--and turn students into scientists. In this straightforward and…
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Fourth graders research an ideal location for their garden.
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Journal Article |
This article summarizes our research findings, investigating instructional adaptations elementary science teachers make to accommodate a growing population of Karen immigrant students. Hailing from the war-torn country…
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Science for All: Making it work
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Strategies for increasing student engagement
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Although the NGSS has helped teachers conceptualize teaching science in a more integrated way, effectively scaffolding students’ thinking within and across lessons can still be a challenge for any middle school science…
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Using Team-Based Learning in the Science Classroom
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With an overwhelming amount of research and a demand for collaborative learning in the classroom, teachers are tackling challenges at all educational levels that often accompany the social aspects of group work. Team-…
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