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It’s a Small World After All: Nanofabric
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Nanotechnology is producing a variety of new materials we use in our everyday lives. One such development is the latest stain-resistant fabric. This inquiry activity gives students the opportunity to explore and…
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Introduction: The Environmental Context
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The argument for teaching science in the environmental context is based on the reality of the science-environment relationship and on the potential that contextual teaching has for contributing to valuable student…
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Crime scene evidence can include strands of human hair, an unidentified animal pelt, or animal hair on the ground near a suspected poaching. Hairs that look alike with the naked eye can become distinctly different when…
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How Can Playing With a Motion Detector Help Children Learn to Write Clear Sequential Directions?
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Kathleen Dillon Hogan is a kindergarten teacher in the Calvert County, Maryland, public schools. When this paper was written, she was a first-grade teacher at Hyattsville Elementary School in Hyattsville, Maryland.…
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Becoming a Teacher Researcher: Giving Space, Finding Space
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Christopher Horne is a teacher specialist for elementary science for Frederick County, Maryland, public schools and an adjunct professor in the education department at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg,…
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Teachers Supporting Teachers in Learning
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Diantha Lay is principal of an elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland. When she wrote this chapter, she was just starting a new position for the county as a staff development teacher. Earlier she had been a…
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TEAM Connections: Four Teachers’ Journeys Into Action Research
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Judy Fix, Norma Fletcher, Dianne Johnson, and Janet Siulc—a group of teachers in the Buffalo Public School District—wondered what they could do that would go beyond talk and speculation about their teaching practices.…
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Learning About Motion: Fun for All
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Deborah Roberts is a fifth-grade teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. At the time she wrote this chapter, she was a middle-school science teacher in a high-poverty suburban school in Maryland. An earlier version of this paper…
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Reflections on Fostering Teacher Inquiries Into Science Learning and Teaching
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Emily van Zee is an associate professor of science education at Oregon State University and co-organizer of Teacher Researcher Day at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) national conferences. She has been a…
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Reading, Writing, Comprehension, and Confidence—Achieved in Science Contexts
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When Elizabeth Kline wrote this, she was a fifth-grade teacher in Prince George’s County, Maryland. A desire to integrate scientific concepts in a curriculum dominated by reading, writing, and mathematics motivated her…
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Fourth-Grade Scientists Investigate Electric Circuits
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Trisha Kagey Boswell is a third-grade teacher at an elementary school in Montgomery County, Maryland, where she has taught for eight years. Her school is an art-integrated magnet school. When she wrote this chapter, she…
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Monica Hartman, Assistant Director for Science in St. Clair County, Michigan, conducted this research while she was the learning specialist in a small suburban district just outside a large Midwestern city. While…
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Ellen Franz is a teacher at an elementary school in the Sausalito Marin City School District, a small district just north of San Francisco. When she wrote this poem, she was teaching primary grades in a midsized urban…
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When students Don’t Talk: Searching for Reasons
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Mary Bell has taught for 23 years in a large suburban school district near Washington, DC. As an elementary special education and Reading Recovery teacher, she cotaught reading, science, and math as part of an inclusion…
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Evolving Ethical Perspectives in an Eighth-Grade Science Classroom
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Matthew Ronfeldt’s dissertation as a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford University is a crossprofessional study of how professional education supports novice teachers and clinical…
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