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Misconceptions in Science

Early Childhood Elementary High School Middle School Pre-service Teachers Preschool Biology Chemistry Climate Change Earth & Space Science General Science Life Science Physical Science Physics STEM

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Family Engagement

Family engagement is when families and educators partner together to share the responsibility of supporting students' learning. Family involvement in ...

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Engineering STEM

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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. ...

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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...

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Astronomy

How does a young child use curiosity, interest and observation to experience the phenomena of objects in the sky?...

Elementary Preschool Astronomy Earth & Space Science

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Assessment

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

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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

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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....

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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