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Book Chapter
What Are Some Instructional Strategies That Support Conceptual Understanding?
In this chapter, strategies are described that can be used to promote learning within an instructional model. There are many strategies that researchers and practitioners have determined to be effective in supporting conceptual understanding. This ch...
Book Chapter
How Does Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning Support Conceptual Understanding?
This chapter focuses on connecting instruction, assessment, and learning. It features some of the ways you can use formative assessment to support conceptual understanding in science so that teachers can make better instructional decisions that suppo...
Book Chapter
What Role Does Informal Education Have in Developing Conceptual Understanding?
This chapter addresses learning in informal environments and in this age of technology, informal education is everywhere. Although opportunities have been available for many years, it’s only recently that educational researchers have become interes...
Book Chapter
Putting It All Together: “Balancing” Case Study
This Appendix features a case study of a lesson on “balancing” using the principles and ideas espoused in the book and in A Framework for K–12 Science Education. To illuminate the three dimensions and the four strands in “science as practic...
NSTA Press Book
It’s challenging to teach science well to all students while connecting your lessons to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This unique book portrays real teaching scenarios written by the teachers on the NGSS Diversity and Equity Team. T...
Journal Article
Looking Through the Energy Lens
A strategy helps students develop a fuller view of energy's role in a variety of phenomena....
Journal Article
Fifth-grade students write about the flow of energy and matter through an ecosystem....