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Saving the Forest for the Trees
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Students as Citizen Scientists: It’s Elementary
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about life processes. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that plants and animals share several life functions, even though they are…
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Frogs Need Homes and Other Ecological Lessons
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…
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Transforming Local Spaces With Relevant Perspectives
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Learning About Culture and Sustainable Harvesting of Native Plants
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Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course
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Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…
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Negative Student Response to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms:
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Recent research has supported the use of student-centered teaching practices, such as active learning, because of its effectiveness in improving student learning and retention when compared with traditional, lecture-…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transformation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that most of the matter that makes up the wood of a tree…
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Never Too Young to be a Citizen Scientist!
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Kindergarteners learn about plants and seasons through a yearlong project.
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