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Cold Milk: Measuring Energy Transfer in the Creation of Ice Cream
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! This experiment demonstrates endothermic reactions in a way that creates a learning experience that connects science with the popular dessert ice cream. Students are…
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Gummy Invertebrates: Changing Independent Variables in Gelatin Recipes
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This hands-on experiment allows students to witness a clear phase change from solid to liquid, while learning key vocabulary about variables and implementing the scientific method. The lab focuses on giving students the…
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Acidic Milk: Measuring PH changes When Acid is Introduced in Cheese Making
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Most people are not quick to associate the word cheese with the word acid. But the process of making cheese actually begins by raising the acidity of a liquid to cause proteins to curdle to make sour milk. That’s right…
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Berries and Bacteria: Measuring How Acids and Heat Impact Bacteria in Jam
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Have you ever had a ripe apple, a juicy strawberry, or a succulent peach? Did the juices flow into your mouth with each bite as you devoured it? On the other hand, have you ever had a piece of fruit that was less than…
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American Mozzarella: Calculating Rates of Change for Rennet in Cheese Making
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Legend has it that mozzarella was first made when cheese curds accidentally fell into a pail of hot water in a cheese factory near Naples, Italy...and presto—a new cheese was made, and pizza shops starting popping up…
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Ballpark Pretzels: Using Microscopes to Observe Yeast Fermentation of Sugar
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The experiment in this free chapter provides a hands-on lab experience for students to being their investigation into yeast and the fermentation of sugars. The experiment allows students to view the yeast under the…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about characteristics of life. Viruses are used as a context to uncover students’ ideas about what determines whether something is considered a living or…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the human excretory system. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that the human excretory system removes metabolic wastes, rather…
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You have recently found yourself assigned to team teach science. You may be a science teacher with no experience working with a class containing several students with special needs, or you may be a special education…
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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…
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This chapter sums up what the authors hope you have learned in previous chapters of Team Teaching Science: Success for All Learners.
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Teaching Science: A Historical Perspective
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It is the authors’ contention that a team of two teachers, one a science teacher with solid content background and the other a special-education-trained teacher, can create a particularly effective synergy to deliver…
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Teaching Science: The Instruction
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Teaching science has unique challenges and opportunities for the co-teaching team. Science can be taught with a hands-on approach that encourages students to explore concepts and ideas through interaction. Science…
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In this chapter, the importance of communication on a variety of topics is discussed. Each co-teaching team is unique and will have differing preferences for how to establish their working relationship. A good co-…
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Team Teaching: Science in the Elementary Classroom
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Many of the challenges of team teaching—such as communication, content knowledge, and joint instruction—are issues that all co-teachers must address; however, there are unique characteristics to the elementary classroom…
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