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This chapter presents several models of instruction from cooperative learning to inquiry-based instruction. It concludes with the 5E Model of instruction, pioneered by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS 1993....
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Pedagogy means teaching and teaching is what teachers do. It's a fancy word with a simple meaning. In reality, the distinction between pedagogy and curriculum can be a bit difficult because what is taught and how it is taught are deeply intertwined. ...
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Assessment, broadly defined, means information gathering. Grading (or evaluating) students is certainly one type of assessment. Tests, portfolios, and lab practicals are all assessment devices. However, teachers assess students in other ways. When te...
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The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (2002) defines “diversity” in this way: “In education, discussions about diversity involve recognizing a variety of student needs including those of ethnicity, language, socioeconomic c...
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As is the case with the other chapters in this book, each entry in this chapter should stand on its own. However, more than in other chapters, the ideas presented in this chapter tend to build on each other. Ideas that began with Piaget were later ch...
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This chapter presents research concepts featuring qualitative, quantitative, and action research. Qualitative research generally involves a researcher combining observation, interview, and analysis of various documents. Quantitative research represen...
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This chapter discusses teacher education from the preservice teachers—the period when they are learning to teach as undergraduate or graduate students—to induction—the period when they are making the transition from student teacher to an experi...
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This section offers insights about the uniqueness of teaching in a two-year college. Hello! Is Anybody Out There? explores one commonality that exists among many two-year colleges—isolation, including the social, financial, and political isolation ...
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Natural Forces of Decay and Renewal
Through biodegradation, dead plants and animals get broken down and so do the waste products they produce while living. For plants, these waste products include dead leaves and the remnants of seeds and blossoms. For animals, wastes include excrement...
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This section covers understanding biodegradation, including biodegradation protocols providing specific instruction on research. The section also provides techniques in interactive research for developing experiments and field studies using the proto...
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This section outlines possible assessment criteria for student research, as well as example assessment rubrics for posters and written reports. Engaging in peer review provides both opportunities and challenges for assessment. Some of the assessment ...
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Decay and Renewal presents an inquiry-based approach to studying biodegradation, the assortment of biological processes that cause organic matter to decay. Biodegradation occurs in nature and in human-engineered systems to prevent or clean up envir...
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Biodegradation Protocols: Introduction to Research
This section presents 14 research protocols. Using one or more of these protocols, students will be able to design and carry out their own experiments. Students will also experience some of the ways in which scientists work together to discuss ideas,...
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Interactive Research: Experiments and Field Studies
This section provides advice to help students choose from a wide range of ideas for research projects. It also provides a series of worksheets designed to guide progress through the various steps of designing and carrying out an experiment, presentin...
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Interactive Research: Wastewater Treatment Design Challenge
When engineers and scientists design systems for wastewater treatment, they must meet certain criteria concerning treatment effectiveness, and they must work within specified constraints such as cost. This section gives step-by-step directions for an...