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Teacher's Toolkit: Interactive word walls: Visual Scaffolds That Transform Vocabulary Instruction
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This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes how middle school teachers can use interactive word walls to increase their students’ ability to learn…
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Integrating Technology: Innovative Youth: An Engineering and Literacy Integrated Approach
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This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes activities that help students develop literacy and engineering skills while fostering an…
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From the Editor's Desk: Innovative Teaching = Learning
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Citizen Science: Summer Night Sky Citizen Science With Globe at Night
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This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. The Globe at Night international citizen science project aims to increase…
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Disequilibrium: How Heat Affects the Density of Water
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This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event illustrates what happens when a container filled with warmer, less dense water is placed on top of a container…
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Listserv Roundup: Four Effective Ways to Improve Laboratory Management
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics.This month’s column focuses on laboratory-related advice from the NSTA listservs.
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Science for All: Kinesthetic Learning in Science
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's topic describes creating a classroom environment where students can be in motion. The authors include their favorite ways to get students…
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Teacher to Teacher: Transitioning to Three-Dimensional Learning With Evidence Statements
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. Incorporating three-dimensional learning in the classroom requires teachers to change how they present lessons and assessments to students. This article shows…
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Scope on the Skies: Vocabulary of the Skies
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month's issue provides a list of astronomical terms that students can apply to events that they can witness this summer.
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The authors reorganized sections of their nonmajors biology course using current issues in biology and society as a premise to promote coherence among course content and emphasize the relevance of biological concepts to…
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The Windwalker Project: An Open-Ended Approach
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Students in a beginning level undergraduate classical mechanics course engaged in collaborative inquiry through the Windwalker Project. The aim of this project was for students to create a free-standing movable…
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It is envisaged that small-group exercises as part of a large-group session would facilitate not only group work exercises (a valuable employability skill), but also peer learning. In this article, such a strategy to…
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Geoscience Videos and Their Role in Supporting Student Learning
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A series of short (5 to 7 minutes long) geoscience videos were created to support student learning in a flipped class setting for an introductory geology class at North Carolina State University. This study sought to…
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The authors created a Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program focused on improving student performance in high-risk STEM courses. Our PALs are modeled after the Peer-Led Team Learning program, which has been shown to…
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To engage effectively with contemporary water-related challenges with scientific and social dimensions, students need to understand the properties of water and the nature of scientific processes and practices. However,…
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