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Learning STEM by Building Airplanes
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Outdoor Teaching and Learning in Natural Spaces and Outdoor Classrooms
Journal Article |
On a humid, sunny day in late July, a group of middle school science teachers closed out three days of teacher professional development (PD) on a nature hike at a forest preserve. Here they engaged as learners, looking…
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Promoting Learning for All Through Explore-Before-Explain
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) highlight the importance of creating more equitable learning environments and engaging all students in science (NGSS Lead States 2013). In professional learning, we target…
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Applying the Science of Learning to the Education of Prospective Science Teachers
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Cognitive scientists have studied the highly organized and efficiently utilized characteristics of experts’ knowledge in thinking and problem solving. The authors discuss the important implications of this body of…
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Reflections on Fostering Teacher Inquiries Into Science Learning and Teaching
Book Chapter |
Emily van Zee is an associate professor of science education at Oregon State University and co-organizer of Teacher Researcher Day at National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) national conferences. She has been a…
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Collaborative Conversations and Intentional Reflections on Teaching and Learning Physics
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Dorothy Simpson taught mathematics for 15 years before she started teaching physics at Mercer Island High School near Seattle. Now retired, she is serving as a volunteer at a local elementary school with special…
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Using Computer Simulations to Enhance Science Teaching and Learning
Book Chapter |
Technological advances have increasingly brought instructional digital technologies into the science classroom. Teachers may have greater access to Internet-connected classroom computers, wireless laptop carts, computer…
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Case Study: Using Two Languages to Learn Science
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Often teachers ask their English language learners to confine themselves to using English as they explore ideas, frequently because the teacher does not know the child's first language. This case study tells the story…
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A Teacher's Perspective: Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities
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In their essay, “Creating Culturally Responsive Learning Communities,” page 151, Eugene García and Okhee Lee begin with the idea that human beings construct knowledge by “applying knowledge of previous concepts to the…
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Teaching and Learning Science: PISA and the TIMSS Video Study
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Scientific literacy was the main focus of PISA in 2006, and a number of items on the student questionnaire asked students how frequently they experienced certain teaching and learning activities, or teaching styles, in…
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Assessment of Students' Learning Through the Creation of Scientific Posters
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Assessment of student knowledge takes many forms. This chapter features the presentation of scientific posters—one assessment used successfully in upper-division biology courses. The posters, on topics chosen by the…
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The Role of Leadership in Fostering Inquiry-Based Learning and Teaching
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, the author first address the concepts of inquiry and leadership presented in the National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996). Then presents examples of leaders who foster inquiry-based learning…
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Research-Based Techniques Incorporated Within Mastery Learning
Book Chapter |
This chapter begins with a brief explanation of cognition and how we learn. This explanation will serve as the foundation for understanding why the various aspects of mastery learning have the impact that they do.
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Yes, Virginia, Study Habits and Learning
Techniques Are Key!Book Chapter |
Teachers like to point out in discussions pertaining to higher-order thinking that their students often struggle with lower-order thinking. Their point is well taken. There has been a trend away from making students…
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Learning Science With Inquiry in the Clark County School District
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In 2005, Project PASS—Proficiency And Success in Science—was funded as a Mathematics and Science Partnership by the Nevada Department of Education. This three-year collaborative project was initiated with the goals of…
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