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The ABCs of Assessment: Aligning assessment with instruction

Assessment often carries a negative connotation, but it is as important as curriculum and instruction and needs to be viewed as a positive enhancement of learning. To be comprehensive, assessment must be authentic, resembling the classroom experience...

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Outside Learning: It’s Elementary

Through a partnership with elementary teachers at Main Elementary School in Rome, Georgia, 42 children (one third-grade class and one fourth-grade class) learned how to use newspapers to rebuild slopes on their schoolgrounds that had been eroded by r...

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Enabling Science: NSF's Program for Persons with Disabilities

To promote greater inclusion of disabled students in science classrooms and to address the underrepresentation of persons with disabilities in science and engineering careers, the National Science Foundation (NSF) established its Program for Persons ...

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Toys that Teach

Using toys to teach basic physical science concepts is a great way to engage students through hands-on experience with familiar objects. This article contains several activities that use toys to help students investigate average speed, acceleration, ...

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Centimeters, Millimeters, and Monsters

The activity described in this article reinforces metric skills as preservice teachers design monster clothes for an imaginary monster wedding. The humorous activity also demonstrates how the process skills of estimation and linear measurement can be...