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Teaching through Trade Books: Dealing with Data
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The elementary classroom is full of opportunities to collect and organize information—or data—of all kinds. This article suggests two trade books that help children explore concepts of measurement. A background section…
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What Are They Thinking? Promoting Elementary Learning Through Formative Assessment (e-Book)
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A REVERE Award Winner, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! “Children are continually developing ideas and explanations about their natural world. … Some of these ideas are consistent with…
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Using Physical Science Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 3-5: Phenomenon-Based Learning (e-book)
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The authors say there are three good reasons to buy this book: 1. To improve your students’ thinking skills and problem-solving abilities. 2. To get easy-to-perform experiments that engage students in the…
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Editorial: A Change in Terrain or a Shift in Perspective?
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Guess what? While you weren't looking, the world got flattened. At least, that's the conclusion of Thomas L. Friedman in his explosive book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman…
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Editor's Note: Teacher Growth, Coupled With Early Introduction
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Guest Editorial: The Root of the Problem
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By providing opportunities for in-depth exploration of content and engagement of educators in modeling the instructional process, we will be able to focus on the needed differentiation in the professional development (…
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Using Natural History Interpretation as an Authentic Assessment Tool
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Natural history interpretation offers college science instructors an educationally challenging alternative or complement to traditional evaluation methods, such as multiple-choice testing. Because it asks students to…
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Editor’s Corner: Problem-Based Learning
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Problem-based learning (PBL) is finding a place in more and more secondary school science programs as teachers discover its power to engage students and develop critical-thinking skills. In the best PBL scenarios,…
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Editor’s Corner: Opening the Door to Science
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The national standards have refocused our thinking about teaching and learning science. Science isn’t reserved only for future astronauts or heart surgeons. Everyone can do science, and previously we hadn’t been…
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This paper presents a mathematical model for walking on the treadmill that calculates the minimum power required for walking on the level at a constant speed and relates it to the pace length. The calculation includes…
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The Influence of Research-Based High School Science Programs on Undergraduate Students
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A survey of past participants in the Grants-In-Aid (GIA) program and the NJAS science fair indicated that 73.5 percent pursued an undergraduate major related to the subject of NJAS research, and early experiences with…
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CSI: The Experience, a traveling museum exhibit and a companion web adventure, was created through a grant from the National Science Foundation as a potential model for informal learning. The website was designed to…
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Science Sampler: Annotated reading
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In order to make reading assignments a more meaningful instructional strategy, the author created MP3 audio recordings of the textbook, which included commentary that was interspersed in the recording. At the start of…
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The University of Arizona’s Teaching Teams Program allows students who know their course’s lecture material and feel confident with their abilities to assist peers in understanding difficult concepts, completing…
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Idea Bank - Bromothymol Blue: The Demo We All Do!
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Often science teachers perform demonstrations only to discover that students have already seen the experiment in a previous course. Teachers should take advantage of these opportunities to showcase the…
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