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Here’s good news: With this practical book, you can learn from experienced elementary school educators about how to make physical science both challenging and accessible for a diverse range of students. Written by…
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Moving Beyond Equity-as-Access to Expanding What Counts as Science in the Elementary Classroom
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Making science accessible is an important and worthy goal, but for many students, science is inaccessible because what counts as science in the classroom is narrowly defined as what is known as western science, rooted…
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Transitioning an In-Person Elementary STEM After-School Program to Distance Learning During COVID-19
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Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book sample chapter)
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What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Transportation in the Future outlines a journey that will…
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Harnessing Solar Energy, Grade 4: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
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What if you could challenge your fourth graders to use solar energy to provide the world with clean water? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Harnessing Solar Energy outlines a…
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Patterns and the Plant World, Grade 1: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
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What if you could challenge your first graders to relate changes in seasonal weather patterns to changes in the plant world using a container garden? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can!…
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Investigating Environmental Changes, Grade 2: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book Sample)
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What if you could challenge your second graders to design an outdoor STEM classroom with a butterfly garden, birdbath, and sundial? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! …
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Journal Article |
This article presents a framework to design lesson plans for elementary science teachers using insights from a summer-long research experience for teachers (RET) workshop (National Science Foundation, 2021) to learn…
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Measuring Computational Thinking Teaching Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Elementary Teachers
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With the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), assessing K–12 science teachers’ self-efficacy in Computational Thinking (CT) is an important research gap to study. Bandura defines self-efficacy as…
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Swing Set Makeover, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book sample chapter)
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What if you could challenge your third graders to design a swing set that’s safe but still lots of fun? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Swing Set Makeover outlines a journey that…
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Book Chapter |
This chapter, by Norman G. Lederman, Judith S. Lederman, and Selina L. Bartels, reviews the Next Generation Science Standards and then offers examples of elementary science methods teachers can use to apply the NGSS in…
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Journal Article |
The goal of the University of Southern California (USC)/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center funded Wonderkids Program is to develop medical and cancer themed curricula for elementary students in an after-school program…
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This chapter, by Zong Vang, Eric Brunsell, and Elizabeth Alderton, addresses the inclusion of scientific argumentation in elementary classrooms and its connection to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). It…
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Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers
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This article describes how science educators at a large southeastern university developed specialized science training for elementary preservice teachers (EPSTs) by creating a combination of discipline-specific science…
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The Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) under-score the importance of including engineering design process (EDP) within the science curriculum. The Framework and the…