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Making Science Accessible for All
It’s time for a change in mindset. We must shift our focus toward recognizing the assets and strengths of our students as a pivotal starting point. ...
By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn
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Rules of Teaching That I learned in My Student Years
As teachers we commonly learn our subject matter in high school and college. We acquire more knowledge in graduate school and in life experiences. At ...
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Design Talks: Whole-Class Conversations during Engineering Design Units
Teacher-facilitated whole-class conversations can help elementary students apply the full power of the NGSS science and engineering practices to an en...
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Creating a Buzz About Community-Engaged Research
School districts across the United States are actively exploring avenues to aid elementary-aged Gifted and Talented (GT) students in conducting studen...
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Students as Creators of Instructional Videos: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Clear, detailed instructional procedures have an important role to play in laboratory teaching, not only to produce consistent results, but to ensure ...
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The Science Practice of Modeling as a Sensemaking Tool
Does the scientific practice of modeling actually support students in making thinking visible? Middle school teachers can build from the work of 12 ...
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Making Sense of the Deepwater Oil Spill Disaster
Authenticity in learning is becoming increasingly important as today’s students are not “buying into” school just because it’s there! Today’...
By Joy Barnes-Johnson and Mridula Bajaj
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Science concepts connect us to the wonders of the natural universe. Why is the sky blue? [Air molecules behave much like tiny little tuning forks.] Is...
By John Suchocki
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Scientific Literacy: Lives could depend on it!
Carl Sagan famously said “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science ...
By Charlotte Moser
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Student Uncertainty as a Pedagogical Resource (SUPeR)
As suggested in A Framework for K–12 Science Education (National Research Council 2012), “Scientific knowledge is a particular kind of knowledge w...
By Jamie Rapkiewcz, Jongchan Park, Ying-Chih Chen, and Michelle E. Jordan
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Academic food security aims to provide students with sufficient access to knowledge (one key academic nutrient) in order to limit intellectual hunger....
By Thomas M. Onorato, Nathalie Oulhen, Gerardo Reyes, Stephany Foster, Cosmo A. Pieplow, Janet E. Rollins, Jacqueline A. Brashears, Claudette Davis, Ian Alberts, Ingrid D. Veras, and Gary M. Wessel
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Development and Implementation of an Undergraduate STEM Peer Coaching Program
Undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences have academic, psychological, and social challenges that require ad...
By Laura E. Swann, Jonathan L. Hall, Katie Vaccaro-Garska, Samantha R. Seals, and Pamela P. Benz
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Growing Students' Meaning-Making
In this sensemaking lesson, K–2 students explore how different factors influence seed germination and explain the elements necessary to sprout. Note...
By Patrick Brown, Jessica Fries-Gaither, and Kathy Renfrew
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Using Argument to Reason About Science Practice
We have been working for nearly two decades with teachers across all grade bands to promote productive argumentation. From this experience, and those ...
By William Sandoval, Jon Kovach, Leticia Perez, Lynn Kim-John, and Jarod Kawasaki
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The Importance of Partnership, Support, and Sustained Professional Development
By Jason Harding, Maria Pack, Chris Harrison, and Lucy Wood