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The Prepared Practitioner: Intro to Research
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As a K-12 teacher, should you pay attention to the research done by “those university people up in their ivory towers?” To understand some of what academic research offers you, an analogy might be helpful. As a driver,…
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Students build a Markov chain probability model of marriage and divorce using statistics—the chance of divorcing in a given year and the chance of divorcing eventually—from an article on the subject with the goal of…
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Guest Editorial: Technology Techniques: Using Them the Right Way
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An opinion piece about using technology in the classroom.
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Classroom demonstrations and hands-on modeling of abstract scientific concepts represent pedagogical strategies that are often overlooked in college science teaching. The educational literature is replete with research…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Exploring Ecosystems
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This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column explores the complex relationships of living things to their natural environment and to each other. Investigations for grades K-3 and 4-6 are included.
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Point of View: The Conversion of Charles
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This essay tells the story of the path taken by a veteran physics teacher with a strongly traditional, didactic style of teaching to a more constructivist, inquiry-based, student-centered pedagogy. It highlights the…
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The Green Room: Green School Buildings
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses steps you can take to ensure a healthy and sustainable learning environment.
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Often the differences students see in science and mathematics classrooms are in perspective, approach, or application. Understanding those differences can help teachers to present a unified picture of mathematics and…
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"Clicker" Cases: Introducing Case Study Teaching Into Large Classrooms
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Case study teaching is difficult in large classes, especially in fixed-seat ampitheaters. The development of audience response systems, or "clickers," for use in classrooms has opened up exciting new possibilities for…
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Can meeting actual scientists change students' perceptions of scientists? In this investigation, it appears that the face-to-face interactions during the classroom visit influenced the students' perceptions and provided…
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Addressing the Standards in the Garden
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This article answers the call to achieve scientific literacy by using the Garden Explorations program—a hands-on science camp focusing on the processes of science to enhance student understanding of scientific inquiry.
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Do you worry about the ramifications of speaking up publicly? Do you wonder what your family, neighbors, and coworkers would think? You’re not alone, as the author of this month’s Commentary column concedes. Here she…
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Students use a free, authoritative online resource for environmental health issues that supports argument-based inquiry.
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Of all the disciplines, mathematics would seem to be the easiest to connect with science. After all, mathematics is the “the language of science.” We already use math to analyze data and solve problems in science…
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Commentary: The Coming of Age of Informal Science
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The array of informal education configurations is enormous yet all follow the same basic premise of educating through flexible, interesting, and often entertaining methods. And, consistent with the National Science…
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