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  • Working As a Team

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    Students take turns playing different roles to learn the essential skill of collaboration.

  • Scientists at Work

    Journal Article |

    Online multimedia vignettes enable students to experience the lives of working conservation scientists.

  • Wetlands Work

    Journal Article |

    With the help of coordinators from Louisiana State University—Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, this cross-curricular project in science, math, history, and environmental science resulted in an ongoing stewardship…

  • Examining Student Work

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    This article presents a model of collaborative inquiry for groups of science teachers who want to systematically improve their practice through analyses of student work. The five-phase APEXST (Advancing High-Leverage…

  • Working Model Hearts

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    Despite student interest, the heart is often a poorly understood topic in biology. To help students understand this vital organ’s physiology, the author created this investigation activity involving the mammalian heart…

  • Science Shorts: Wind at Work

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    Many children enjoy evaluating products and designing improvements. Activities that promote investigation and product design lend themselves to assessments that demonstrate communication skills, focus on reasoning…

  • The Life and Work of John Snow

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    Due to his work to determine how cholera was spread in the 18th century, John Snow (1813-1858) has been hailed as the father of modern epidemiology. This article presents an inquiry model based on his life and work,…

  • Making Field Trips Work

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    A school field trip tries to bring the structure and order of a formal classroom setting into an unstructured place where visitors (learners) typically choose what they want to do. In order to address this conflict,…

  • How Do Scientists Work?

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    Fourth-grade students examine animal tracks to explore the nature of science.

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