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Editor's Corner: Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation
In an age where facts must compete with “alternative facts,” it is more important than ever for our students to learn and practice the skills of scientific argumentation. Taken from the Latin arguer—to make bright or enlighten—argument is cen...
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Argumentation is a key scientific practice and a central social and cultural process contributing to the generation, evaluation, and application of new scientific knowledge. As scientists develop arguments and construct knowledge claims, they clarify...
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Using Scientific Argumentation to Understand Human Impact on the Earth
Using High-Adventure Science to help students develop critical thinking and scientific argumentation skills...
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Invention activities are creative, engaging, and relevant ways to integrate engineering design into science class. High school students are capable of creating working prototypes of real, patentable inventions when they are working on problems about ...
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Three models of formative assessment for addressing NGSS domains ...
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Focus on Physics: Quickly Teaching Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration—Part 1
Motion is best learned by keeping it simple—by neglecting the effects of air resistance, as well as the effects of buoyancy, spin, and the shape of moving objects....
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Right to the Source: Learning to Think
Jacob Abbott's 1856 book "Learning to Think" and why it still resonates today...
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Career of the Month: An interview with paleontologist Emily Lindsey
Paleontologists study past life on Earth, usually focusing on what happened before the Holocene Epoch (about 12,000 years ago.)...
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Cougars and Bears and Wolves, Oh Elk!
Examine how the reintroduction of gray wolves into Yellowstone affected the ecosystem of the park. ...
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Investigating Bark Beetle Outbreaks
Model and explain the cause of recent bark beetle outbreaks....
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Using Storylines to Support Three-Dimensional Learning in Project-Based Science
By Jeffrey Nordine, Joseph Krajcik, David Fortus, and Knut Neumann
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Making in the Middle: Robots and Sequences
This column explores maker spaces, engineering, and more. This article presents a lesson that allows students to engage with robotics as they work through three modules exploring sequences. ...