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Methods and Strategies: Students as Authors
Are you looking for ways to effectively integrate—and assess—science and literacy learning? Try having your students create their own books! The Integrated Science Literacy Enactments (ISLE) approach to teaching and learning science is one way to...
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Science Sampler: Making science relevant with an integrated curriculum
This article describes a modular middle school curriculum that integrates science, math, social studies, and language arts. An adventure story creates the context for student learning of the academic content, which is made relevant to students by inc...
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Roller Coasters!
Students of all ages are fascinated by the ups, downs, loops, and twists of roller coaster rides! What they may not realize is that there is a lot of science involved in making a roller coaster work. This month’s column puts students in the shoes o...
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Weaving in the Story of Science
Stories weave common elements of the nature of science between topics and activities, regardless of whether it’s short historical narratives about scientists or current event articles that are read. Stories also can help students realize the impor...
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The experts address the following question in this month’s column: Are fish sensitive to lightning that strikes water? ...
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Simple Machines in the Community
The community can be a powerful context and mini-laboratory for cultivating students’ common understandings of science and mathematics. On the island of Panay in the Philippines, the community was the starting place for a group of fifth- and sixth-...
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Perspectives: Assessing and Addressing Student Science Ideas
Our students are not blank slates. They come to school with a wide range of experiences that have shaped their science understandings—reading books, watching TV, and playing video games. From many years of research about student science ideas, it i...
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Scratch This! The IF-AT as a Technique for Stimulating Group Discussion and Exposing Misconceptions
Frequent and immediate feedback is critical for learning and retaining content as well as developing effective learning teams (Michaelson, Knight, and Fink 2004). The Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) provides a single and efficient way...
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Editor’s Roundtable: Beyond the classroom walls
It is no secret that students learn best when the topic they are studying interests them or relates in some way to their lives outside of school. With a little work and planning, science teachers should be able to make science content relevant to jus...
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Research and Teaching: An Analysis of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) in a Science Lecture Classroom
Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) is an online tool being used to integrate a writing component in classrooms. In an introductory zoology lecture class, the authors found that CPR-assigned scores were significantly higher than instructor-assigned scores o...