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Journal Article | October 2019
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.
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Becoming a Responsive Science Teacher: Focusing on Student Thinking in Secondary Science
NSTA Press Book | November 2012
“No one would find it strange to see a geologist poring at length over a single rock, or an entomologist over a moth, or botanist over a leaf. Examining a specimen closely can help scientists develop new understandings…
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Being Unique or Being Identical
Journal Article | April 2020
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Emphasizing Physics Concepts with Cartoons
Journal Article | February 2020
Focus on Physics … Next month’s Focus on Physics will extend cartoons to physics …
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Journal Article | February 2020
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The Pulled Spool—Which Way Does It Roll?
Journal Article | May 2020
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Exponential Growth and Doubling Time
Journal Article | June 2020
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Emphasizing Physics Concepts With Cartoons, Part II
Journal Article | March 2020
an electric field. Just as a gravitational field surrounds an object with mass … reminds us that emitted energy relates to “quantum jumps” in the atom … the wider view is that energy and mass are two sides of the same coin …
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Journal Article | April 2019
Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction.
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Measuring Shadows to Calculate the Size of Earth
Journal Article | March 2020
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A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood
Journal Article | February 2020
First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…
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Coming to See the Invisible: Assessing Understanding in an Inquiry-Focused Science Classroom
Book Chapter | January 2006
The work discussed here focused on the design of curricula that mirrored important aspects of realistic scientific practice, especially the ways in which causal models are used to account for patterns in data and the…
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Creating and Sustaining Science-Focused Professional Learning Communities Through Partnerships
Book Chapter | April 2009
In this chapter, the authors share selected components of The North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) model for professional learning communities (PLCs) and the impact those communities had on instruction…
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Using technology to sensitively and sensibly meet students' needs in the science classroom
Journal Article | November 2019
Strategies for increasing student engagement
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Journal Article | April 2020
positive and focus on student growth (DiTullio 2018 …
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