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  • Understanding Condensation

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    Monica Hartman, Assistant Director for Science in St. Clair County, Michigan, conducted this research while she was the learning specialist in a small suburban district just outside a large Midwestern city. While…

  • Jonathan

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    Ellen Franz is a teacher at an elementary school in the Sausalito Marin City School District, a small district just north of San Francisco. When she wrote this poem, she was teaching primary grades in a midsized urban…

  • When students Don’t Talk: Searching for Reasons

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    Mary Bell has taught for 23 years in a large suburban school district near Washington, DC. As an elementary special education and Reading Recovery teacher, she cotaught reading, science, and math as part of an inclusion…

  • Evolving Ethical Perspectives in an Eighth-Grade Science Classroom

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    Matthew Ronfeldt’s dissertation as a doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford University is a crossprofessional study of how professional education supports novice teachers and clinical…

  • Student Teaching as Collaboration

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    For teachers who are trying to understand what their students think and how they feel, data can include notes found on the floor after class, the letters they as teachers write to their students, and the e-mails they…

  • Collaborative Conversations and Intentional Reflections on Teaching and Learning Physics

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    Dorothy Simpson taught mathematics for 15 years before she started teaching physics at Mercer Island High School near Seattle. Now retired, she is serving as a volunteer at a local elementary school with special…

  • Safety Is For Everyone

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    In some ways, the laboratory safety standards may seem at odds with science laboratory curriculum expectations in an environment attempting to provide for full inclusion of all students. Clearly, not all students will…

  • Introduction To Safety In Science

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    This sample chapter provides an overview of general safety practices for the classroom. Topics discussed are Making Adjustments for Mobility- Impaired Students, Laboratory Safety: Welcome Aboard!, Yes, You Need a…

  • Introduction to Safety in Science

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    This sample chapter provides an overview of general safety practices for the classroom. Topics discussed are Making Adjustments for Mobility- Impaired Students, Laboratory Safety: Welcome Aboard!, Good-Bye MSDS, Hello…

  • What Is Inquiry? A Framework
    for Thinking About Authentic
    Scientific Practice in the Classroom

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    In this chapter, a framework is suggested for organizing teacher thinking about inquiry and prioritizing the wide assortment of activities teachers typically use to familiarize their students with the processes of…

  • Assessing Science as Inquiry in the Classroom

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    Assessments of inquiry should align with what we know about learning and should be balanced and authentic. That is, they should include all the important features of inquiry, not just those easy to assess. This approach…

  • Inquiry and Scientific Explanations: Helping Students Use Evidence and Reasoning

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    This chapter describes the importance of scientific explanation in inquiry, common difficulties students have in justifying their claims, and a suggested instructional approach for supporting students in writing…

  • Historical Development of Teaching Science as Inquiry

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    This chapter examines four periods in the history of science education. In particular it looks at how societal pressures brought about the teaching of science as inquiry in each period and how educators, cognitive…

  • Inquiry in the Earth Sciences

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    Inquiry experiences in the Earth sciences are often indirect, because direct experimentation, such as is used in the physical sciences, is typically not possible. To support inquiry in the Earth sciences it is important…

  • Inquiry in the Chemistry Classroom: Perplexity, Model Testing, and Synthesis

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    Lavoisier's theory of combustion is used as a context for a set of interrelated, inquiry-fostering investigations in a high school chemistry class. Further, this example of chemistry inquiry is used to develop some…

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