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Scope on Safety: Digging up the dirt on soil safety
Should middle school science teachers be concerned about students bringing in unknown sources of soil to work on in class as the activity suggests? The science is well intended, but is it safe? What are some possible safety issues that might be of co...
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Methods and Strategies: Using Learning Progressions to Monitor Progress Across Grades
Learning progressions (LPs)—descriptive continuums of how students develop and demonstrate more sophisticated understanding over time—have become an increasingly important tool in today’s science classrooms. Here the author discusses some of th...
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The Prepared Practitioner: Groundwater—A Green Issue
This issue’s theme—“Going Green”—relates to environmental education. In an article published in the Journal of Science Teacher Education, Dickerson and colleagues (2007) discuss issues related to the lack of groundwater education in school ...