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Living or Nonliving?

First-grade lessons on life science and classification address misconceptions....

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All About Me/All About Gary

A place-based science curriculum incorporates the photovoice method....

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The Reasons for the Seasons

The Moon can only be seen at night, electricity only comes from batteries, and dinosaurs and cavemen lived at the same time—these are just a few of the misconceptions students have about science (Phillips 1991). Though instructional labs, demonstra...

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Delving Into Disasters

Students uncover information about previous natural disasters or events to construct explanations using science process skills....

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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Living?

Uncover the hidden meanings children construct....

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Green Science: Organic Milk—Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side?

This column focuses on issues related to environmentally friendly and sustainable science. In this month’s column we look at the costs and benefits of producing organic milk. ...

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Active Learning Strategies: The Top 10

Conceptual change instruction recognizes that students bring personal, or naive, conceptions to the classroom, which they use to explain their world, interpret situations, and create meaning (Driver et al. 2007). But what happens when students' perso...