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  • Teaching Teachers: Lessons in Cooperative Learning

    Journal Article |

    In this article, the author provides a list of suggestions, based on personal experience, to help preservice teachers start using cooperative learning.

  • Methods and Strategies: The 6-E Learning Model

    Journal Article |

    Most teachers are familiar with the 5-E model of science instruction—Engage, Explore, Explain, Expand, and Evaluate. This model adds a sixth "E" to the tool: "e-search." E-search encompasses any use of electronic media…

  • Perspectives: The Myth of Catering to Learning Styles

    Journal Article |

    The idea that people may have different abilities to learn, depending on the modality of instruction, has been around for over 100 years. When applied to educational practice, the essence of this viewpoint is that…

  • NASA "ROCKS" Problem-Based Learning

    Journal Article |

    With the National Science Education Standards as a driving force behind instruction, science educators must move toward classroom activities that allow students to guide their own learning experiences and form their own…

  • How to Create a Professional Learning Community

    Journal Article |

    Devoting time to a professional learning community (PLC) can be frustrating or rewarding. The authors have experienced both of these outcomes and can share processes that may help make your PLC one that enriches your…

  • Assessment <em>for</em> Learning

    Journal Article |

    Due to the student-centered nature of problem-based learning (PBL) and project-based science (PBS), it is easy for teachers not to provide students with adequate feedback or enough support to promote critical thinking.…

  • A Killer Lake Alive with Learning Opportunities

    Journal Article |

    Students often fail to remember, understand, and apply what they have learned in science classrooms. The sample lesson described in this article illustrates how teachers might move science education toward an authentic…

  • Extra! Extra! Learn All about It

    Journal Article |

    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…

  • Idea Bank: Learning Through Stories

    Journal Article |

    While studying gas laws, high school chemistry students at Unionville High School in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, created children’s books about the properties of gases, geared toward ages 8-12, to display their…

  • Editor’s Corner: Problem-Based Learning

    Journal Article |

    Problem-based learning (PBL) is finding a place in more and more secondary school science programs as teachers discover its power to engage students and develop critical-thinking skills. In the best PBL scenarios,…

  • Teaching Temperature With Project-Based Learning

    Journal Article |

    In this project-based unit on weather, a fictional director of a Hungarian Wildlife Refuge invites fourth-grade students to determine whether the backyard of their school contained a variety of surface temperature…

  • Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 1: Using Science Notebooks for Sensemaking

    Professional Learning Course Module |

    Science notebooks are a powerful and flexible tool to support students’ sensemaking. The science notebook creates a space for students to document their thinking, develop and revise models, plan investigations, and…

  • Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 2: Launching Notebooks with Students

    Professional Learning Course Module |

    In this module, you will use a notebook organization continuum to examine a variety of ways to organize science notebooks. You will analyze teacher-directed and student-directed approaches to notebook entries and use a…

  • Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms: Module 4: Assessing Student Notebooks

    Professional Learning Course Module |

    In this module, you will experience ways to use science notebooks for formative assessment. You will gain a deeper understanding of the disadvantages of grading notebook entries. You will have an opportunity to apply…

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