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In this lesson, a brother and sister learn that Venus is visible as either a morning star or an evening star at different times of the year, and they try to explain the pattern of movement of Venus in the sky. Key words and concepts covered are movem...
NSTA Press Book
The Power of Investigating: Guiding Authentic Assessments
Children want to explore, dig, build, play, and wonder. To do this they need to touch, feel, see, observe, listen, manipulate, plan, and create. How does a teacher build and maintain a learning environment that will help students investigate meaningf...
By Julie V. McGough, Lisa M. Nyberg
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Biomimicry: The Technology of Biology
Biomimicry: The Technology of Biology is a 2 credit course that introduces the rapidly emerging discipline of biomimicry as a source of inspiration to create solutions to human problems. You will learn how to use nature as a source of ideas, how to...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Special Topics in Microbiology
Special Topics in Microbiology is a 3 credit course and provides an inquiry based examination of current microbiology related topics. Topics may vary from semester to semester and will be selected by the assessment of what is considered “newsworthy...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Microbial Genetics
Microbial Genetics is a 3 credit course designed to provide an understanding of the fundamentals of genetic processes in bacteria (prokaryotes). The study of bacterial genetics has provided much of the understanding of fundamental genetic processes f...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Infection and Immunity
Infection and Immunity is a 3 credit course that addresses some basic aspects of microbiology as they relate to infectious disease. How are microbes different from each other and from humans, and why do these differences matter? How do antimicrobial ...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Streamside Science: Hands-On Approach
Streamside Science: Hands-On Approach is a 3 credit course designed to increase the water resource knowledge of students through hands-on, field-based curriculum. To accomplish this, students will be asked to adopt a local stream and perform lab assi...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Science Across Cultures
Science Across Cultures is 3 credit course designed to present science knowledge across cultures embedded in inquiry-based instruction. This approach will facilitate the integration of science teaching to other curricular areas and will engage studen...
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Integrating Literature into the Science Classroom is a 3 credit course which provides an effective way to integrate master teaching strategies with current practices of teachers. The goal of this course is to engage and equip teachers in the area of ...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Web Tools for Teachers
Web Tools for Teachers is a 3 credit course that provides educational technology professional development to practicing science teachers. The purpose of the course is twofold. First, the course will assist educators in effectively using the web to ...
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Inquiry through Science and Engineering Practices is a 2 credit course which takes a practitioner's look at the art of inquiry instruction appropriate to all learning settings, including, but not limited to classrooms, museums, planetariums, etc....
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Contemporary Issues in Science Education: The 3 D’s of NGSS is a 2 credit course designed to survey the three dimensions of the Next Generation Science Standards: science & engineering practices, crosscutting concepts and disciplinary core ideas. ...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Construction of Curriculum
Construction of Curriculum is a 3 credit course which examines the philosophical, historical, and social influences that drive the construction of curriculum. Emphasis is placed on science curriculum past, present, and future. Where did it start? How...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Master Strategies for Teachers
Master Strategies for Teachers is a 3 credit course designed for science teachers as a professional development tool to increase the effectiveness and awareness of effective teaching strategies. Teachers in this course will study about and implement ...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Historical Geology
Historical Geology is a 3 credit course providing grade 7-12 science teachers with a rigorous overview of the evolution of the Earth and life and of the methods that geologists use to investigate the history of our planet. Tuition rates for MT res...
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Snow and Avalanche Physics for Science Educators is a 3 credit course designed to educate the teachers in the basics of snow and avalanche physics such that they may apply what they learn in their own classrooms to excite their students about science...
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Special Topics: Equilibrium, Thermodynamics, & Kinetics is a 3 credit course is designed to help instructors bolster their background in equilibrium, thermodynamics, kinetics as well as provide assistance in the teaching of these topics. Equilibrium,...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Exploring Organic Chemistry
Exploring Organic Chemistry is a 3 credit course that will provides a general review/background in organic chemistry with an emphasis on functional groups and covalent chemistry reaction mechanisms while focusing on applications including polymers. P...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Exploring Chemistry
Exploring Chemistry is a 3 credit course that provides an in depth discussion of critical concepts in chemistry. Chemical principles will be presented in the context of real-world issues including energy production (biofuels), chemistry of water, and...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Exploring Biochemistry II: Metabolism
Exploring Biochemistry II: Metabolism is designed to serve as the second semester of a two-semester sequence of biochemical principles. The course will build on topics covered in CHMY 591 (Exploring Biochemistry I) such as carbohydrates, lipids, prot...
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Online Courses: MSU Master of Science in Science Education: Exploring Biochemistry
Exploring Biochemistry is a 3 credit course which considers the reactions of the principle biochemical molecules (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids) with additional emphasis on biomedical topics. The primary goal of this course is...