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Online Extras: Science Learning in the Early Years
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Online Extras: Science Learning in the Early Years If you have purchased Science Learning in the Early Years, you can view the accompanying collection of blog posts. This resources is for your personal use only and is not to be redistributed. To view the online extras, please type in the second word in the body text on…
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Students, in this activity, measure distances by walking heel-to-toe in the unit “student minute.” This is to gain an intuitive under¬standing of light years, a unit in which time represents distance.
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Distances to stars and galaxies are so great that communicating the measurement in kilometers is cumbersome and difficult to comprehend. So, astronomers use a larger unit of measure called the “light year.” It is the…
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Sometimes students find the causes of seasons to be a difficult concept. They often need to work with visual representations to understand the implications of axial tilt. One misconception is that seasons change as the…
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Surviving Year One and Transitioning into Thriving in Year Two and Beyond
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As you finish your rookie season in the world of education, every first-year teacher deserves a hearty congratulation. Everyone will tell you that their first year was the most challenging… what they often omit is that…
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This chapter addresses requesting testing accommodations for students who need them from either the College Board or International Baccalaureate (IB). Planning is essential to success, so identifying which students…
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This book starts with a rather simplistic view of what light is. This chapter starts with a simple explanation which will be easy to understand and it will explain quite a few things. Also, historically, it's the one…
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Teaching Science in the Two-Year College: An NSTA Press Journals Collection
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Two-year colleges are critical to science education’s future—in fact, some data indicate that half of future science teachers will take their first years of science at a two-year school. To address the unique challenges…
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Finding Inspiration as the Year Winds Down
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End-Of-Year Activities And Reflections
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By spending a little time at the end of the year organizing your materials and reflecting on your experiences as discussed in this chapter, you’ll be ready for the challenges at the beginning of the next year.
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Teaching Influences From My Student Years
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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students
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This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…
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