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  • Discussing Science in Professional Learning Communities

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    Teachers collaborate to transform next generation science teaching and learning.

  • Teaching Teachers: Learning From Failure

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    This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. This month's article includes insights from a university and STARBASE ONE partnership program.

  • Renovating Our Science Learning Centers

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    Informal learning centers transcend disciplinary boundaries as students address real-world applications.

  • Junior BioBlitz Takes Learning Outside

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    Fourth graders learn about local biodiversity by working with local experts and nature enthusiasts.

  • Guest Editorial: A Powerful Way to Learn

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    If our classroom instruction is to truly reflect what scientists do, it is important to put students in situations in which they are expected to ask questions about the natural world, design investigations to answer…

  • Myths About English Language Learning

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    How to overcome misconceptions and help ELLs learn both science and English.

  • Editor's Note: Identifying a Progression of Learning

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    Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

  • Are "New Building" Learning Gains Sustainable?

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    New science facilities have become a reality on many college campuses in the last few decades. Large time investments in creating shared programmatic vision and designing flexible spaces, partnered with large fiscal…

  • Ring the Bell: An Asynchronous Learning Experience

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    Use household materials to engineer your own Rube Goldberg device that links a series of physical actions to ring a bell.

  • Informal Science Learning in the Formal Classroom

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    Creating a quality partnership with informal science institutions.

  • The Benefits of Formative Assessments for Teaching and Learning

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    Formative assessments are usually informal and can range from oral question-and-answer sessions in class to performance events or quizzes. Stiggens and DuFour (2009) state that teachers and schools should use formative…

  • Editor’s Corner: New Tools for Learning

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    Technology has the potential to transform science education through online social network collaboration, satellite navigation and imaging, field and laboratory digital probeware, wikis and blogs, sophisticated online…

  • Science 2.0: The NSTA Learning Center

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    This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue focuses on the electronic portal: The NSTA Learning Center.

  • Using Simple Machines to Leverage Learning

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    What would your students say if you told them they could lift you off the ground using a block and a board? Using a simple machine, they’ll find out they can, and they’ll learn about work, energy, and motion in the…

  • Science Sampler: Hypothesis-based learning

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    Are visions of students hypothesizing, designing experiments to test their explanations, analyzing data, writing formal publications of results, and debating over scientific procedures in an attempt to justify their…

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