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Viral News: Media Literacy for the 21st Century
The authors present a lesson designed to address the 21st-century skills of information and media literacy in the context of science issues. This lesson was embedded in a full unit focused on viruses and vaccines at the eighth-grade level....
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The author describes a technique called metacognitive circles, which is used with heterogeneous classes. Metacognitive circles allow teachers to provide opportunities to obtain, evaluate, and communicate information....
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Teacher's Toolkit: Using Metacognition to Develop Understanding of the Role of Evidence in Science
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue focuses on strategies to encourage students to make more effective observations, collections, and recordings of data....
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Communicating Science Concepts Through Art: 21st-Century Skills in Practice
To demonstrate the strength of integrating conceptual art strategies into a variety of science curricula, science teachers recruited the school's art teacher to provide basic art lessons during science classes. This allowed students to learn the fund...
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Tech Trek: Skeins of Student Contribution: A New Web 2.0 Tool for Science
This column provides a look at the latest technology for science educators. This issue discusses new Web 2.0 tools....