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  • Elements of a Research–Based Rationale

    Book Chapter |

    In Chapter 1, the 10 key aspects that most plans embrace were mentioned. This chapter looks more closely at how to address these 10 key aspects. This includes setting goals for students and defining the roles of…

  • Separation Lab: Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures

    Book Chapter |

    In this activity, students will separate a mixture of sand, salt, Styrofoam (or Perlite), and iron.

  • Elements of Making

    Journal Article |

    A framework to support making in the science classroom.

  • It's Elemental!

    Journal Article |

    Using Period Table Live! pushes students to think critically and helps them learn the period trends in properties.

  • Design Elements From a Rural, Multi-Organization Collaborative

    Journal Article |

    On a Saturday afternoon last May in Hamilton, Montana, 150 people gathered in a college gymnasium for the Bitterroot Maker Fair. At tables around the room, student educators from the University of Montana (UM) spectrUM…

  • Understanding the Elements: The physics and symmetry of the periodic table of the elements

    Journal Article |

    The Periodic Table of the Elements, or the Mendeleev Chart, is the starting point for chemistry and critical for learning physics as well. This article is an effort to explain, from fundamentals, how the periodic table…

  • Science Sampler: The Element Walk

    Journal Article |

    “The Element Walk” lesson is effective at teaching students the elements that exist in common substances encountered every day. Students walk away from the lesson with a set of general rules that help them to easily…

  • The Affective Elements of Science Learning

    Journal Article |

    Student attitudes can have a positive or negative effect on learning. According to Duschl, Schweingruber, and Shouse, “[students’] goals for science learning, their beliefs about their ability to do science, and the…

  • Summer Reading—It's Element-ary

    Journal Article |

    NSTA's reviewers provide suggestions for summer reading for science educators.

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