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Achieving a Vision of Inquiry: Rigorous, Engaging Curriculum and Instruction
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The changing emphases of the National Science Education Standards (NSES) have spurred many school districts to reinvent their science programs. New curricula development by National Science Foundation-funded programs…
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Adapting the JASON Project: Real Science, Real Time, Real Learning
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The JASON Project is a multidisciplinary curriculum involving real science studies and comparing them to local studies performed by students. The Plymouth Public School System, located on the south shore of…
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"Re-Inventing" Science Instruction: Inquiry-Based Instruction in a Fifth/Sixth-Grade Classroom
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The author's purpose in sharing her experiences in this monograph is to help other teachers who may be less confident in teaching science than they are teaching other subjects, to help them see the value in what the…
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What Do We Get to Do Today? The Middle School Full Option Science System Program
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This chapter presents the Full Option Science System (FOSS) and the features that address the four National Science Education Standards (NSES). With FOSS curriculum students are introduced to content through exploration…
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ARIES: Science as Discovery . . . and Discovery as Science!
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This chapter presents Project ARIES, developed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and funded by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from Harvard University and the Smithsonian…
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The 15 previous stories give evidence of the Standards' impact, along with important examples for others for improvements they might consider if they want to move in directions like those advanced by the persons…
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In light of the increasing emphasis placed on the importance of teachers and their actions and the reality that we have an inadequate pool of qualified science and mathematics teachers to meet our needs, many reform…
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Teaching Science With Pictures
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The state of Texas is divided into 20 Regional Education Service Centers (ESC). Schools located in three of the independent school districts of the largest region—Region IV ESC—were selected as pilot sites for a program…
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Finding Out What...and How They Know
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The setting for this chapter is Hawkins Middle School located in a small rural city, the county seat of one of the poorest counties in Wisconsin. In this project students engaged in a learning experience that was…
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The reader may question how the "Teach them to fish" proverb relates to science education. Yet, a shift in emphasis from presenting knowledge through lecture and demonstration to encouraging active learning, in which…
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Creating a Classroom Culture of Scientific Practices
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Scientific practices are the activities that scientists engage in as they investigate the natural world. These daily practices include asking questions, designing investigations, finding, incorporating, and using…
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More Emphasis on Scientific Explanation: Developing Conceptual Understanding and Science Literacy
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This chapter describes a process for engaging middle school students in writing scientific explanations in the context of project-based science. In four Detroit classrooms, teachers enacted strategies for explanation…
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Traveling the Inquiry Continuum: Learning Through Teacher Action Research
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This chapter addresses the More Emphasis on Teaching and the Content and Inquiry Standards from the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Using the knowledge gained through the Community of Excellence in…
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Modeling: Naturally Selecting an Effective Teaching Method
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This chapter examines middle school level curriculum for evolution which incorporates many aspects of the More Emphasis conditions from the National Science Education Standards (NSES). Taking into account that in order…
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It's the "Little Things" That Can Change the Way You Teach
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The "Little Things" project is a unique curriculum on the soil ecology of microbes that offers students an opportunity to engage in real science research, develop an understanding of the biochemistry of soil microbes…
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