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Shining Light on the Importance of Explore-Before-Explain Experiences for Early Childhood Learners
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A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this…
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Finding High-Quality Science Materials
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ understanding of the word technology. The probe is designed to find out if students are aware that they live in a world composed almost entirely of…
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School Instructional Space Silica Exposure: Safety Hazards/Risks
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This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.
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Science/STEM Laboratory Occupancy Load Level: It Is the Law
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about engineers. The probe is designed to reveal how students think about who is an engineer and the kind of work engineers do.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a block diagram, and to determine whether they recognize that technologies…
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Envisioning the Possibilities of Educational Gaming with Carl Sagan
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In the late summer of 1983, when video games were relatively new, astronomer, cosmologist, and science communicator Carl Sagan recognized their potential value as he imagined “how to design a home video game which would…
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Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"
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In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio…
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What’s the Purpose of Technology?
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the purpose of technology. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that technologies are developed to meet human needs and preserve…
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Project-based learning (PBL) instructional methods attempt to make connections between students and their ability to solve real problems. We framed our qualitative study within sociocultural theory and used the…
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Reflecting on this week’s Daily Do
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