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A series of activities helps young students understand why diet and exercise matter.
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Poetry of Plants
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue integrates language arts and science using nature-inspired poetry picture books to engage students in explorations of plants' life…
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Editor's Note: Building Language for Science Literacy
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Guest Editorial: The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Personal Reflections and Contemporary Implications
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A widely used instructional model, the BSCS 5Es, has helped teachers approach instruction in a meaningful way that enhances student learning. The author, lead developer of the 5Es, provides an overview of the model and…
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The Early Years: Creating Effective Classroom Interactions
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses learning about your own teaching to see if you are creating an effective learning environment.
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Science 101: What Causes Friction?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author talks about friction.
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Methods and Strategies: Gather 'Round
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue explores the wonders of science through read-alouds.
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Getting More Scientists to Revamp Teaching
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The rapid diffusion of clickers at their university leads the authors to propose that faculty development strategies may gain in being explicitly informed by both the scientists' most immediate needs as teachers and the…
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Pitching Environmental Science to Business Majors: Engaging Students in Renewable Energy Choices
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This article describes an active learning strategy for engaging undergraduate business students, a group often ignored in scientific pedagogy, in learning about renewable energy technology and associated trade-offs
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Integrating Vision and Change Into a Biology Curriculum at a Small Comprehensive College
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The authors describe the process of curricular change that occurred in the Biology Department of Elmhurst College in the suburbs of Chicago. This 10-year process involved an update of the mission statement, revision of…
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Examples From the Trenches: Improving Student Learning in the Sciences Using Team-Based Learning
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One method for reforming how college science is taught is shifting to a more student-centered collaborative instructional format using team-based learning (TBL). The purpose of this article is to describe the structure…
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Undergraduate Research and a Liberal Arts Education: Similar Goals, Similar Solutions
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In this article the authors argue that the goals of a liberal arts education and undergraduate research are remarkably similar and that by incorporating an undergraduate research focus with a liberal arts approach in…
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There are few instruments available that science educators can use to assess whether students can apply what they know about scientific practices to critique scientific media reports. In response to the need for valid,…
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Although student production of arguments in group learning environments has been shown to promote scientific reasoning and understanding of science concepts, little previous work has examined the relationship of the…
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The study described in this article aimed to quantify knowledge and misconceptions of evolutionary processes among upper level undergraduate students and analyze how knowledge and misconceptions changed throughout a…
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