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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12
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Discover trade books published in 2013 that cover science content, engineering, and design.
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Editor's Note: Support for Implementation of NGSS
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Let's Talk Trash
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue helps students focus on what trash is, which trash can be recycled, and where their trash ends up in the process.
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The Early Years: Ecosystems, Up Close and Personal
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses children observing and documenting the growth of a plant from a seed to seed-production and animal…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Habitat Change: Formative Assessment of a Cautionary Word
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses word usage and learning about habitat.
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Science 101: If Energy Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed, What Happens to It?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses energy.
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Science Shorts: Is This Alive?
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This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. This month’s issue uses place-based education to teach students the living and nonliving components of the environment.
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Safety First: Ensuring a Safer Outdoor Experience
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom. This month’s issue discusses safety during field experiences.
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Methods and Strategies: Seeding Science in Elementary Schools
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue descibes a school-university partnership that helps ensure the youngest students experience a rich science curriculum.
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Assessment in Online Learning—It's a Matter of Time
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This article reviews how students in an online Earth and Space Science course interact with various online assessments.
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This article presents the combination of three enhanced educational approaches for training future scientists. These methods incorporate skills generally not introduced in the freshman year: student-led blackboard…
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Using the Draw-a-Scientist Test for Inquiry and Evaluation
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This article describes the use of the Draw-a-Scientist Test as both a model for inquiry and as a method of assessing the affective domain.
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Examinations That Support Collaborative Learning: The Students' Perspective
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The authors used surveys and classroom observations to examine student reactions to two-stage exams, where students first do the exam individually and then redo it collaboratively.
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Metacognition: An Effective Tool to Promote Success in College Science Learning
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This article describes a case study in which metacognition was introduced to undergraduate science (chemistry) classrooms.The aim of the study was to instruct educators how to incorporate metacognition in college…
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Explorations in Integrated Science
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This article describes a third-year undergraduate course that focuses on multiscale modeling and protein folding and has as its primary goal the encouragement of students to integrate thinking across and beyond…
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