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Eleven Assessment Lessons Learned at the Gate
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As a "gateway" instructor for more than 30 years, the author learned a few things about assessing the "typical" community college student. "Gateway" is the polite euphemism for suggesting you will always be teaching the…
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Analogies: Powerful Teaching-Learning Tools
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In this activity, teachers explore how teaching shares some attributes with a variety of other occupations, students consider their respective roles as learners, and both consider the reciprocal, interactive nature of…
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Möbius Strip: Connecting Teaching and Learning
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A Möbius strip is a nonorientable, two-dimensional surface with only one side. The one-sided nature of the Möbius strip is an example of an emergent property—a property that is found in a system as a whole, but not in…
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Electrical Circuits: Promoting Learning Communities
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Direct current (DC) electricity flows through a closed circuit of people, and a battery-powered ball lights up. In this activity, the Energy Ball (or UFO Ball) is a Ping-Pong ball look-alike battery-powered ball that…
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Eddy Currents: Learning Takes Time
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A metal slug dropped into a copper tube falls under the pull of gravity and drops out at the bottom fairly quickly. When a second, apparently identical, slug is dropped into the tube, it falls quite slowly. If one slug…
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Tornado in a Bottle: The Vortex of Teaching and Learning
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In this activity, two 2 L plastic soda bottles are connected at their mouths. Colored water from the upper bottle falls in the lower bottle quickly only after the two bottle system is given a twist to create a spiraling…
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How Mastery Learning Might Look
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In this chapter, the author describes what their mastery learning classroom looks like and presents several variations that could be used to make mastery learning fit specific circumstances or people.
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Extra! Extra! Learn All About It
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Communication and reporting of findings to peers are important to middle school students. One way to capitalize on students’ interests and incorporate the nature of science into the science curriculum is to have…
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Learning From Successful Cooperative Models
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Since some schools lack even a modest representation of free-living animal and plant life, it is important that school districts consider giving high priority to the establishment of cooperative off-campus teaching and…
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Professional Development: Learning to Always Be a Student
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“If you are going to be a teacher, you should always be a student.” This quote has directed my entire career in education, and continues to drive my actions today. I share it with every single new teacher that I meet in…
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Strategies for Assessing Science and Language Learning
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In this chapter, the authors give an overview of principles for assessing language learners in science. They describe how to plan assessment, how to use it in the classroom, and how to provide feedback and improve…
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Brain Research: Implications for Teaching and Learning
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As knowledge of many aspects of the brain has exploded over the past few decades, there has been a strong desire to link the study of the brain, i.e., neuroscience, with education, the applied learning endeavor of…
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How Do Students Learn Science?
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As we search for ways to improve classroom science experiences for students, we repeat the same question over and over: “How do students learn science?” In one sense, how students learn science falls within the realm of…
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Classroom Assessment in the Service of Student Learning
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Science education reform literature acknowledges the close relationship between assessment and learning. This chapter takes a closer look at this tight link between assessment and learning, specifically at how classroom…
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Using Rubrics to Foster Meaningful Learning
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Since its inception in the mid-1980s, the Science Education for Public Understanding Program (SEPUP) at the Lawrence Hall of Science (University of California-Berkley) has developed an array of “issue-oriented”…
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