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Methods and Strategies: Using Learning Progressions to Monitor Progress Across Grades
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Learning progressions (LPs)—descriptive continuums of how students develop and demonstrate more sophisticated understanding over time—have become an increasingly important tool in today’s science classrooms. Here the…
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Scope on the Skies: Total lunar eclipse
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In the hours before the December solstice, the full Moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow for a total lunar eclipse that will be visible at some point from all of North America. Depending on your longitude and time…
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If the words "science fair" strike fear in your heart, you're not alone. While few disagree that science fair projects have great potential for student learning, the preparation and execution of projects can be…
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Natural Resources: Seasons Change
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Fall catches our attention, sometimes in subtle ways. A brisk wind, a seed pod. Consider the nondescript tree that you never notice until its golden or garnet leaves flutter to the ground. For those of us who don’t like…
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Science 2.0: Tablets as Learning Hubs
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the use of tablet computers as a digital hub for learning.
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Scope on Safety: When is a classroom a laboratory?
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What are the bare bones that must exist for a room to be considered safe for teaching laboratory science? This month’s issue of Scope on Safety addresses this question by first defining when a laboratory is really…
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Working side-by-side with museum scientists and other experts in classrooms, in the community, and in the school's adopted watershed, teachers learned high-level technology skills, then involved students in firsthand…
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In these activities, students learn how to inquire about relevant issues, use evidence to make decisions about inquiries, and communicate those decisions. Integrated science courses in high school can be fundamental to…
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Presenting Science in a Video-Delivered, Web-Based Format
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The authors offered a course entitled Science and Technology in Society to high school students using live video presentations and World Wide Web courseware. Distance-learning high school students performed as well as…
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The Elementary Students’ Science Beliefs Tests
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To help teachers guide their instruction, a university science educator who researches students’ science beliefs and a fifth-grade classroom teacher investigated how elementary students interpreted some of the ideas…
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Classroom experiments are often designed for convenience, ignoring fundamental scientific processes. Even “hands-on” experiences seldom allow the student to define the problem or design the experiment. The example…
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As part of the “Car Lab Project,” students constructed rubber band cars, raced them, and worked through a number of automotive activities. The students engaged in this project certainly had fun, but they also used high-…
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Trekking Across the Science Boundaries
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Stories are powerful learning tools in science education. The story of "our place in the universe" is the grand science narrative of the origin and evolution of galaxies, stars, planets, and life. This article describes…
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Mole Mapping: Using a graphing calculator as a tool for solving mole problems
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A mole map is a concept map that outlines the process for solving mole problems. In these activities the approach to using a mole map is by having students individually create and develop a map based on data analysis…
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Point of View: Smooth Handoff—Alignment of Secondary and Collegiate Learner Goals in Science
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A winning science education relay is tough to pull off if high school and college instructors misunderstand each other. Difficulties in learner transition to college science appear to have roots in miscommunication:…
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