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Integrating Science Communication Into a Large STEM Classroom
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The communication of scientific findings through writing is an important skill for undergraduate science majors to develop as they move through their respective degree programs. Seeing the importance of science…
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Using Key Features to Analyze and Modify Curriculum for the NGSS
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The Constructivist Flipped Classroom
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In science education, the value of the constructivist methodology has long been integrated with experiential and hands-on learning while offering a framework for teaching and learning. In recent pre- and future…
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, February 21, 2023
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the use of evidence and reasoning to support a claim. The probe is designed to see if students apply systematic methods of reasoning from evidence…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning…
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Mark Earth Day and Arbor Day With Fresh Lessons
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Freebies for Science Teachers, Week of July 20, 2020
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How Do Animals Brush Their Teeth?
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Q: What’s the difference between evaporation and boiling?
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Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"
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In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio…
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Q: If a tree falls in a forest, and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 11, 2023
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about biological evolution. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish the theory of biological evolution from ideas about the origin of…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about natural selection. The probe is designed to find out how students interpret the commonly used phrase “survival of the fittest.”