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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the human excretory system. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that the human excretory system removes metabolic wastes, rather…
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You have recently found yourself assigned to team teach science. You may be a science teacher with no experience working with a class containing several students with special needs, or you may be a special education…
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Team teachers need to recognize the importance of establishing positive relationships with school professionals, principals, and parents. These relationships can be accomplished by focusing on establishing communication…
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This chapter sums up what the authors hope you have learned in previous chapters of Team Teaching Science: Success for All Learners.
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Teaching Science: A Historical Perspective
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It is the authors’ contention that a team of two teachers, one a science teacher with solid content background and the other a special-education-trained teacher, can create a particularly effective synergy to deliver…
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Teaching Science: The Instruction
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Teaching science has unique challenges and opportunities for the co-teaching team. Science can be taught with a hands-on approach that encourages students to explore concepts and ideas through interaction. Science…
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In this chapter, the importance of communication on a variety of topics is discussed. Each co-teaching team is unique and will have differing preferences for how to establish their working relationship. A good co-…
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Team Teaching: Science in the Elementary Classroom
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Many of the challenges of team teaching—such as communication, content knowledge, and joint instruction—are issues that all co-teachers must address; however, there are unique characteristics to the elementary classroom…
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Team Teaching: Science in the Middle School Classroom
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Co-teachers in science at the middle school level must address co-teaching issues as well as the unique challenges of instructing middle school learners. Middle school is just that—in the middle, between elementary…
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A Team-Teaching Game Plan for One School Year
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This chapter helps to outline what all co-teaching teams should be doing during each phase of a typical school year. Because the two individuals involved in co-teaching are operating in a situation in which there must…
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Teaching Science to Students With Special Needs in Advance Classes
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Most advanced science classes are not team taught. Although there may be several students with special needs in honors, gifted and talented, International Baccalaureate (IB), or Advanced Placement (AP) science classes,…
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Team Teaching Science at the High School Level
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The focus of this chapter is the specific challenges of team teaching each individual discipline in the typical high school or secondary school. Although science curricula vary not only from state to state, but even…
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This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about motion. Activities include Time to Roll, Describing Motion, Different Speeds, and Evaluation.
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This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Third Law. Activities include Push Back, Newton’s Third Law, Exploding Canisters and Evaluation.
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This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about adding directions and vectors. Activities include Direction Matters and Vector Application.
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