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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 student-driven research, value science within their local community, develop students’ science practices...
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Promoting Meaningful and Equitable Modeling Practices in Online Science Instruction
Many elementary science teachers have faced some challenges in implementing meaningful and equitable modeling practices in online science instruction that is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Integrating technology tools into modeli...
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Equitable from the Start: Strategies for Making Science Relevant, Engaging, and Accessible
Equalizing opportunities for students to learn science and engineering in the ways described in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) requires intentional planning. In this paper, we describe a framework for designing equitable and inclusive s...
By Rachel Ruggirello and Alison Brockhouse
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Moving Beyond Equity-as-Access to Expanding What Counts as Science in the Elementary Classroom
Making science accessible is an important and worthy goal, but for many students, science is inaccessible because what counts as science in the classroom is narrowly defined as what is known as western science, rooted in Europe in the 1600s and often...
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Culturally Relevant Science Learning
Creating learning opportunities for students to culturally connect in the science classroom is crucial to ensuring inclusivity and accessibility for all. This article describes how multicultural picture books that use visuals to capture diverse repre...
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Reading Like a Scientist: Teaching Students to Strategically Read Multimodal Science Texts
Calls for disciplinary literacy instruction in elementary schools encourage teachers to provide authentic opportunities for students to read and write like scientists. Enacting disciplinary literacy with problem-based learning practices to inquire ab...
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Tab-meta key: a model for exam review
Traditional exam reviews are passive and face many challenges to prepare students for exams. In this study, we proposed the “Tab-meta key†model, which emphasizes five major factors (Time, Accountability, Big picture, Key concepts, and Me...
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Embedding Study Skills in STEM Courses to Increase Retention and Success: A Quantitative Study
This study was conducted to determine if embedding effective study skills within a course would result in an increased use of these skills and, therefore, increase success and retention in introductory level science, technology, engineering and math ...
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Use of a Student-Ally in Emergency Remote Teaching
This manuscript reviews This manuscript reviews the peculiarities of emergency remote teaching (ERT) –in the context of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic – compared to in-person and traditional online teaching. A literature review precedes an...
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Transforming Science Education in an Age of Misinformation
Scientific misinformation has reached alarming proportions. Here, we summarize a new expert report, Science Education in an Age of Misinformation, that outlines what science education can do to address this problem and, given the urgency, must do. I...
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"Signs, Signs, Everywhere the Signs": Interpretive Trail Signage for Biodiversity Education
Postsecondary science faculty face challenges in balancing the engagement of undergraduates while concomitantly ensuring knowledge is gained and retained, either in standard lectures or labs as well as in outdoor activities. Designing on-campus trail...
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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences for Laboratory Learning in the Life Sciences
Laboratory learning in the life sciences is historically centered around following recipe-like instructions to complete activities with defined outcomes. The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Vision and Change report has ca...
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Inoculation theory, which applies the biological concept of vaccination to misinformation, provides a range of ways to effectively build resilience against misinformation. In this article, we define and organize the various types of inoculation, whic...
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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 safe practices. Student success in using these can be strengthened through the use of video resourc...
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