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Blogs: Applications in Science Education
Blogs are reshaping our political, social, and cultural environment. Education is affected by blogs because of their potential for learning and teaching, and also their risks. This article elaborates on a set of rules for evaluating and implementin...
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Editorial: The Terman Oscillation
Lewis Terman's ghost is everywhere. He's present in spirit in every SAT score, every curriculum reassessment, and in every curriculum policy change. Terman is the Stanford, in Stanford-Binet, one of the first and most long-standing tests of human i...
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The Effectiveness of Online Homework in an Introductory Science Class
Does the use of an online homework system such as WebAssign in an introductory astronomy course affect student performance? Four sections of introductory astronomy were compared in various homework situations, from no graded homework to graded homew...
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Helping Students Write About Science Without Plagiarizing
Most students don't plagiarize just because they are lazy. Most of them simply do not know how to write about science. As teachers, we can use planning strategies to help make some of the process of writing automatic, which frees working memory to fo...
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Using Interactive Science Notebooks for Inquiry-Based Science
Tired of finding students' work overflowing from the garbage can on the last day of school? Try using an Interactive Science Notebook approach to help students make connections to their learning. This approach emphasizes the process of focusing, expl...
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Most students are unaware of the process of molting, but it is an animal characteristic they're sure to be interested in and should have the opportunity to observe. Through a two-month long unit on animal molting, kindergarteners observed pill bugs,...
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A second-grade class follows honeybees throughout the season in this integrated study which explores the relationship between honeybees and fruit trees They cover life cycles, bee and plant anatomy, and seasons. This article highlights those teachi...