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Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers: Using Nonfiction to Promote Science Literacy, Grades 3–5
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Winner of the Distinguished Achievement Award from PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers! In Inquiring Scientists, Inquiring Readers, science educators Jessica Fries-Gaither and Terry…
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The Link Between Science, Inquiry, and Language Literacy
Book Chapter |
There is currently a strong effort to combine science and literacy, because a growing body of research stresses the importance of language in learning science. Discussion, argumentation, discourse of all kinds, group…
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The Link Between Science, Inquiry, and Language Literacy
Book Chapter |
There is currently a strong effort to combine science and literacy, because a growing body of research stresses the importance of language in learning science. Discussion, argumentation, discourse of all kinds, group…
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PISA 2006: An Assessment Framework for Scientific Literacy
Book Chapter |
The PISA 2006 definition of scientific literacy had its origin in the consideration of what 15-year old students should know, value, and be able to do as a preparedness for life in modern society. The results of PISA…
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Visual Literacy in Life Science: Insect Metamorphosis
Book Chapter |
The authors invite you to come with them on a learning journey. Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are designed to help you practice your visual literacy teaching strategies. Even though each of these chapters follows the same format…
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Visual Literacy in Physical Science: Force and Motion
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Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are practice chapters. Each chapter provides the appropriate content standards for grades K-4 and 5-8 and several partial lessons and each follows the same format but addresses a different content…
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Science Teaching and Assessing Students’ Scientific Literacy
Book Chapter |
This chapter introduces some dimensions of scientific literacy and describes PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, as the basis for understanding scientific literacy from both teaching and assessment…
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Multigenre Lab Reports: Connecting Literacy and Science
Book Chapter |
The development of communication skills is a key component in any science program but most students don't see the connection between science and writing. Connect literacy and science by using this hands-on activity that…
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Visual Literacy in Earth Science: Phases of the Moon
Book Chapter |
Chapters 6, 7, and 8 are practice chapters. Each chapter provides the appropriate content standards for grades K-4 and 5-8 and several partial lessons and each follows the same format but addresses a different content…
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Scientific Literacy: Lives could depend on it!
Journal Article |
Carl Sagan famously said “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology” (Sagan, 1990, p. 264). As demonstrated during the COVID…
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Establishing AI Literacy before Adopting AI
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As applications of AI have proliferated, the call has grown for educating students about what AI is, how it works, and how it can affect us. In response, [an American University], in collaboration with an external…
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Promoting Scientific Literacy through the Writing of Abstracts
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Students are provided with plenty of opportunities to acquire new knowledge based on the various scientific disciplines they explore in their schooling. However, it can sometimes be difficult to integrate activities…
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