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As elementary students progress from learning to read toward reading to learn, it is vital that they become strategic readers. A strategic reader is one who understands when and how to use a strategy in order to…
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: New Year, New You
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. In this month’s issue the author shares tips for starting on the right foot and charting a course for a successful and rewarding year ahead.
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Point of View: Assessment and Natilie's Whirligig
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses assessing critical thinking.
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All schools are located in watersheds, land that drains into bodies of water. Some watersheds, like the one which encompasses the school discussed in this article, include bodies of water that are walking distance from…
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Research and Teaching: Online Homework, Help or Hindrance? What Students Think and How They Perform
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To improve students’ retention rates in general chemistry, online homework was introduced into our curriculum. Replacing quizzes directly by online homework significantly improved (p…
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Rethinking Laboratories: Tools for converting cookbook labs into inquiry
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An inquiry analysis tool and adaptation principles help teachers evaluate and adapt laboratories to be more inquiry-oriented.
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Editorial: Moving On but Staying Around
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One of the many benefits of college and university teaching is that it is often possible to remain active in school affairs after retirement. Some elder faculty continue to teach while others participate in research…
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This article uses current events and models to generate inquiry. The teacher uses recycled materials to build a tsunami model.
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Becoming A National Board Certified Teacher: One Teacher’s Perspective
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Reflecting on one’s practice, whether it is a conversation with a single student, a lesson, or a unit plan, is the surest way for a teacher to improve. Going through the process of becoming a National Board Certified…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Woods full of wisdom
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We should all strive to use the study of trees to elevate students’ feelings and attitudes and to create a sense of wonder, appreciation, and personal attachment. Two great American writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and…
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Tried and True: Volcano résumés
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Tired of building a paper mâché volcano to teach about plate tectonics? Do you want to connect science and writing? Then the volcano résumé project is perfect for you. This one-week, problem-based learning (PBL) project…
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Have you ever heard of a Maglev train? Who would be crazy enough to think that exploring how a high-tech train little known in the United States works with a group of fourth-grade students would yield understandings…
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In a research collaboration with government biologists and university educators, K—12 students in the Cle Elum-Roslyn (CER) School District in eastern Washington are investigating where cougars go when their habitat…
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After the Bell: Where do we go next?
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As teachers, we need to connect students’ informal mapping skills to formal mapping concepts that they can learn in school. An important way that school districts or teachers themselves can solve this dilemma is to…
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Scope on Safety: Chemical tracking systems—not your usual global positioning system!
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The haphazard storing and tracking of chemicals in the laboratory is a serious safety issue facing science teachers. To get control of your chemicals, try implementing a chemical tracking system. A chemical tracking…
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