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Moon Misconceptions: Bringing pedagogical research of lunar phases into the classroom
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Pedagogical research gives a three-step teaching strategy to address misconceptions—identify, overturn, and then replace with a scientific conception. Moon phases is one of the most common and persistent misconceptions…
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Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Using Reader’s Theater to Teach Science
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Reader’s theater is an activity in which students, while reading directly from scripts, are able to tell a story in its most entertaining form. Typically, teachers create or purchase premade scripts of stories, and…
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Science Sampler: Conceptualizing Moon Phases—Helping students learn how to learn
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Helping students understand how to learn is an important goal for all subjects and levels of education. While this goal is highly regarded, promoting it is extremely difficult. Many times, we as teachers are consumed…
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An important goal of the current reform movement in science education is to promote scientific literacy in the United States, and scientific inquiry is at its heart. However, the National Science Education Standards…
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Science 101: Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the rotation of the moon.
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Formative Assessment Probes: When Is the Next Full Moon? Using K–2 Concept Cartoons
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue uses concept cartoons to assess students' ideas about the moon.
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A High-Stakes-Test Intervention: Moon-Phase Models as Viewed from Earth and Space
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Schools are under increasing pressure to meet accountability requirements and show growth in student achievement across tested content areas. As a result, throughout the school year, student achievement data are…
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