Archive: Master of Chemical & Life Sciences Program at the University of Maryland, March 4, 2021

Web Seminar | January 2021

The Master of Chemical & Life Sciences program offers a professional master's degree specifically suited to the needs of secondary school biology and chemistry teachers seeking graduate-level, content-based training…

Enabling a Culture of Change: A Life Science Faculty Learning Community Promotes Scientific Teaching

Journal Article | December 2008

Significant challenges to education transformation in lecture-oriented science departments include initiating and supporting a dialogue about teaching and learning among faculty whose priorities are primarily research.…

Argument-Driven Inquiry in Life Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)

eBook | June 2015

If you’ve been wanting to bring the benefits of argument-driven inquiry to your middle school life science classes, this book will help you get started. The book provides 20 field-tested labs to help your…

Online Connections: Science and Children

Page | January 2020

Online Connections: Science and Children July/August 2021 Teaching Through Trade Books—Pushing, Pulling, and Predicting Force Patterns K-2 3-5 Engineering Encounters—Turn Up the Music! Turn Up The Music Supplemental Resources      Using Toys to Create a Global…

Guidelines for Authors: Science and Children

Page | January 2020

Guidelines for Authors: Science and Children About Science and Children Science and Children is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners' journal for grade PreK–5 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science supervisors and leaders. Science…

Guidelines for Authors: Science Scope

Page | January 2020

Guidelines for Authors: Science Scope About Science Scope Science Scope is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioners' journal for grade 6–8 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science supervisors and leaders. Science Scope is published…

A Two-Sided Mirror of Science Education: Reflecting on the Distant World of Science to See Close Connections to Everyday Life

Journal Article | April 1999

This paper describes students using critical reflection to assume the role of the director of the National Science Foundation. This exercise helps sharpen writing and persuasion skills and motivates students to think…

Online Connections: The Science Teacher

Page | January 2020

Online Connections: The Science Teacher November/December 2020 The Aurora Borealis Student Worksheet Solar wind velocity data and answer key Solar storm answer key Connecting to the Next Generation Science Standards The Lives of Staph (Idea Bank) Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C…

Life Science: Interdependence of Life

Collection | July 2016

Life Science: Life Cycles

Collection | November 2015

These artifacts explain many different ways to formally assess students on life cycles and well as hand-on investigations for life cycles and life science. These will be extremely helpful for grades K-2 when teaching…