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Middle School    |    Daily Do

Why Does the Ocean Turn Turquoise?

Why Does the Ocean Turn Turquoise?

 

Freebies for Science Teachers, Week of July 3, 2020

By Debra Shapiro

Freebies for Science Teachers, Week of July 3, 2020

 

Computer Science Blog

Networking Is Vital to a Computer Science Teacher

By Kerri Murphy

Posted on 2020-07-13

Networking Is Vital to a Computer Science Teacher

 

Elementary    |    Daily Do

How Can We Become Good Marble Players?

How Can We Become Good Marble Players?

NSTA Web Seminar Series: Sept20: Topic Study for K-12 Science Teachers: Distance-Learning Strategies that Support Student Sensemaking, September 2020

Many states, districts, and schools are unsure of what the coming school year will bring. Will we back together in the classroom or teaching and learning from a distance? Perhaps a blend of the two? In this four-part web seminar series, we’ll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they’ve observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

Many states, districts, and schools are unsure of what the coming school year will bring. Will we back together in the classroom or teaching and learning from a distance? Perhaps a blend of the two? In this four-part web seminar series, we’ll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they’ve observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

Many states, districts, and schools are unsure of what the coming school year will bring. Will we back together in the classroom or teaching and learning from a distance? Perhaps a blend of the two? In this four-part web seminar series, we’ll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they’ve observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

Many states, districts, and schools are unsure of what the coming school year will bring. Will we back together in the classroom or teaching and learning from a distance? Perhaps a blend of the two? In this four-part web seminar series, we’ll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they’ve observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

Many states, districts, and schools are unsure of what the coming school year will bring. Will we back together in the classroom or teaching and learning from a distance? Perhaps a blend of the two? In this four-part web seminar series, we’ll explore ways in which we can continue to give our students experience with relevant, intriguing phenomena to create the need to engage in science learning to explain what they’ve observed utilizing distance-learning strategies.

 

Elementary    |    Daily Do

Why Is Our Sun So Big and Bright?

Why Is Our Sun So Big and Bright?

Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Distance-Learning Strategies, August 25, 2020

How can we create equitable, distance-learning sensemaking (actively trying to figure out how the world works or designing solutions to problems) experiences for our students when it comes to asking them to use materials from around their homes to do so?

Join us as we discuss strategies to provide ALL of our students opportunities for engaging in science and engineering practices individually from home and sensemaking collaboratively with their peers. Learn from others in our learning community and share your ideas!  

How can we create equitable, distance-learning sensemaking (actively trying to figure out how the world works or designing solutions to problems) experiences for our students when it comes to asking them to use materials from around their homes to do so?

Join us as we discuss strategies to provide ALL of our students opportunities for engaging in science and engineering practices individually from home and sensemaking collaboratively with their peers. Learn from others in our learning community and share your ideas!  

How can we create equitable, distance-learning sensemaking (actively trying to figure out how the world works or designing solutions to problems) experiences for our students when it comes to asking them to use materials from around their homes to do so?

Join us as we discuss strategies to provide ALL of our students opportunities for engaging in science and engineering practices individually from home and sensemaking collaboratively with their peers. Learn from others in our learning community and share your ideas!  

How can we create equitable, distance-learning sensemaking (actively trying to figure out how the world works or designing solutions to problems) experiences for our students when it comes to asking them to use materials from around their homes to do so?

Join us as we discuss strategies to provide ALL of our students opportunities for engaging in science and engineering practices individually from home and sensemaking collaboratively with their peers. Learn from others in our learning community and share your ideas!  

 

Informal Education    |    Daily Do

How Does Some Corn Pop?

How Does Some Corn Pop?

 

Press Release

NSTA to Begin Search for New Executive Director

 

research & teaching

Peer-Designed Active Learning Modules as a Strategy to Improve Confidence and Comprehension Within Introductory Computer Science

Journal of College Science Teaching—May/June 2020 (Volume 49, Issue 5)

By Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Jaemarie Solyst, Anisha Pai, and Lu Yu


While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of enlisting peer mentors to develop and facilitate active learning modules within introductory computer science. First, we describe the preparation peer mentors underwent for their role and the active learning modules that were developed. Next, we share survey data from introductory undergraduates (n = 45); they viewed peer mentors as effective facilitators and credited the active learning modules as contributing to their comprehension of and confidence with course material. In our analysis, we underscore the value of analogy and simulation as cognitive scaffolds and the contributions of near-peer perspectives when developing introductory science courses. Implications for future work involving introductory college science teaching are discussed.

 


While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of enlisting peer mentors to develop and facilitate active learning modules within introductory computer science. First, we describe the preparation peer mentors underwent for their role and the active learning modules that were developed.

While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of enlisting peer mentors to develop and facilitate active learning modules within introductory computer science. First, we describe the preparation peer mentors underwent for their role and the active learning modules that were developed.
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