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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Journal Article |
The increase in classroom technology has resulted in the use of clickers and other audience response systems (ARS) for simultaneous reporting of choices in the team-based learning (TBL) classroom. A variety of…
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Journal Article |
Taxonomy laboratories typically emphasize learning by rote memorization. In place of memorization, however, the authors designed a laboratory notebook exercise that employs drawing and close observation for a better…
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Journal Article |
If we want our students to become capable practitioners of scientific inquiry, we should not stop at providing opportunities to do inquiry. We need to be intentional about assessing and teaching the competencies…
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Peer-Led Team Learning: A new teaching model focuses on student achievement through active learning
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Students are more likely to honestly express their ideas—both scientifically valid conceptions and misconceptions—in a peer group where they have no fear than in front of a teacher who will be issuing grades. The Peer-…
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Web Seminar |
As science education evolves, the shift toward three-dimensional (3D) teaching and learning, integrating disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science and engineering practices, represents a transformative…
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