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Concept Maps and Thinking Routines

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Concept Maps and Thinking Routines

Concept maps are visual organizers that can enrich students’ understanding of a new concept, deepen understanding, and also assess their knowledge. ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool STEM

Collaborative Learning and Constructivism

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Collaborative Learning and Constructivism

Collaborative learning is an approach that involves two or more students coming together to understand a common learning concept. They share resources...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool STEM

Inquiry

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Inquiry

Inquiry-based science challenges students' thinking by engaging them in investigating scientifically orientated questions where they learn to give pri...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering General Science STEM

Families

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Families

Family engagement is essential to student success. On both classroom and school levels, family involvement in education can make a profound difference...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering General Science STEM

Learning Cycle

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Learning Cycle

The learning cycle is a way to structure inquiry in school science and occurs in sequential phases. A learning cycle moves children through a scientif...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering General Science STEM

Science Notebooks

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Science Notebooks

Keeping a science notebook encourages students to record and reflect on inquiry-based observations, activities, investigations, and experiments. Scien...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering General Science STEM

Assessment

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Assessment

Student assessment enables instructors to measure the effectiveness of their teaching by linking student performance to specific learning objectives. ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering General Science STEM

Ideas and Misconceptions

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Ideas and Misconceptions

Misconceptions are ideas that are inconsistent with current scientific views. They are at times difficult to detect and difficult to change. Misconcep...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Engineering General Science STEM

Process Skills in Science

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Process Skills in Science

Science process skills are the things that scientists do when they study and investigate. Observing, classifying, communicating, measuring, inferring ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Engineering General Science STEM

Field Trips

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Field Trips

Field Trips - Place-based and Real-World Learning Children are active learners as they are constantly making connections with the world around them. ...

Early Childhood Elementary Climate Change Earth & Space Science Environmental Science General Science Life Science Physical Science STEM

Developmentally Appropriate

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Developmentally Appropriate

So many great ideas, how do we know if the lessons are developmentally appropriate our young scientists?...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science Life Science Mathematics Physical Science STEM Technology Robotics

Earth and Space Science

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Earth and Space Science

Young children really dig in to Earth science. Here are examples of inquiry lessons exploring our earth....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Earth & Space Science STEM

Physical  Science

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Physical Science

Young children enjoy physics! Tie in your playground, recess, and sports with physic lessons....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Physical Science STEM

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