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  • Popular Science Journalism: Facilitating Learning Through Peer Review and Communication of Science News

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    In a multisemester Popular Science Journalism course students produced science news articles for the university newspaper. Students in the course perceived an increase in their oral communication and critical-thinking…

  • What Undergraduates Choose to Think and Write About When Reading Science News Articles on the Internet

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    Students are scientifically literate when they can read material about science and intelligently communicate their viewpoints, comments, and critiques, using scientific vocabulary and applying the ideas of the process…

  • Blick on Flicks

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    Blick on Flicks The latest (and final) Blick on Flicks: The End of Something: Blick on Flicks Looks Back Your browser does not support the audio element. Read the review We all love watching movies. But we also love science. And sometimes the two don't mix! To help us…

  • Leveraging Science in the News

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    Guest post by Will Reed As science teachers, particularly those of us working to implement three-dimensional (3-D) instruction in our classroom, we strive to make learning relevant to student experiences, engaging them…

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  • Guest Editorial: Inner Guidelines for Undergraduate Teaching—Some Thoughts, News, and Views on K-16 Science Education

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    An opinion piece about undergraduate teaching where the author shares inner guidelines derived from more than 40 years of teaching in hope that they may be useful to others.

  • Research and Teaching: Building Information Literacy Skills Using Science News Media: Evidence for a Hands-On Approach

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    News media reports of scientific discoveries are often oversimplified, lacking nuance and context. As a result, citizens need both science literacy and information literacy skills to both decode the science content in a…

  • Awesome Websites and More

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    Awesome Websites and More NSTA strongly believes that parents can and should play an integral part in their child’s science education. Listed below are websites taken from the NSTA e-newsletter Scientific Principals that parents can use to find out more about science education and engage their children in fun, simple…

  • Teaching About Science in the News

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    Tenth graders in Kathryn Kennedy’s science class at Prairie Seeds Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, discuss current events related to a Bioethics unit. Photo credit: Kathryn Kennedy “To be a good science teacher, it’…

  • Ed News: Sanitized Science

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    This week in education news, climate change skeptic group seeks to influence 200,000 teachers; some California schools are trading the blacktop for greentop; New Mexico schools continue to teach outdated science while…

  • Ed News: Science Steps Up

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    This week in education news, science too often is misunderstood and overshadowed by the “T” and “E” in the STEM acronym; how a Title 1 school raised its science scores significantly; learning about science is a basic…

  • Ed News: The Case for (Quality) Homework

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    The Case for (Quality) Homework Do math worksheets and book reports really make a difference to a student’s long-term success? Are American students overburdened with homework? In some middle-class and affluent…

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