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    Professional Learning Units How It Works

  • Working With Others

    Book Chapter |

    Team teachers need to recognize the importance of establishing positive relationships with school professionals, principals, and parents. These relationships can be accomplished by focusing on establishing communication…

  • Water Works

    Book Chapter |

    In this chapter, the objective of the activity “How Can We Move Water?” is to explore the idea of work as expending energy to move water, to raise the question of what force(s) move water, and to gain experience using…

  • Let’s Work Together

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  • Working on a Pollution Solution

    Journal Article |

  • Does This Count as Work?

    Journal Article |

  • Working With Student Engagement

    Book Chapter |

    "Classroom assessment informs teachers how effectively they are teaching and students how effectively they are learning" (Cross 1996). For this purpose, in this chapter the author constructed an assessment tool known as…

  • Understanding Work and Energy

    Book Chapter |

    Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand work and energy.…

  • Working With the IEP Team

    Book Chapter |

    The science teacher is an important member of the IEP team—bringing unique knowledge and perspective—and communication with the rest of the team will lead to the best possible outcome for students with disabilities in…

  • Examining Students’ Work

    Book Chapter |

    Examining student work is an essential aspect of teaching, yet it is easy to miss opportunities to learn about how students are interpreting—or misinterpreting—the lessons we present to them. In this chapter the author…

  • How Telescopes Work

    Book Chapter |

    This high school physical science lesson has the following learning goals for students: construct a telescope; explain how a refracting telescope works; collect and graph data; and recognize advances in technology by…

  • Putting Radioactivity to Work

    Book Chapter |

    This lesson provides a basic introduction to nuclear chemistry and exponential functions. Students learn about the discovery and history of radioactive elements and the scientific and societal implications of these…

  • Work It, Circuits!

    Book Chapter |

    The guiding question in this activity is,“How does a circuit work?” Old Christmas light strands work great for this activity to help students understand circuits. A detailed science behind the activity is provided.…

  • Designing Effective Science Instruction: What Works in Science Classrooms

    NSTA Press Book |

    Science teachers, like all teachers, start each school year with high hopes and expectations for students to succeed. They plan their lessons, scramble to get the necessary equipment, and work hard to engage their…

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