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Concepts relating to size and scale (and geometry) affect students’ abilities to build understanding in a variety of scientific disciplines, including developing conceptual understanding of nanoscale phenomena. Ideally…
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Materials consist of building blocks that often form a hierarchy of structures. Atoms interact with each other to form molecules. The next higher level of organization involves atoms, molecules, or nanoscale structures…
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The content related to forces and interactions is important to most science disciplines. While chemistry is the most obvious place to introduce these ideas, it is important to connect aspects of this big idea to…
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Quantum theory is an extremely advanced and complicated model. However, some aspects are accessible and useful for building an appreciation and understanding of the novel properties exhibited by matter at the nanoscale…
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The properties of matter can change with scale. In particular, during the transition between the bulk material and individual atoms or molecules, a material often exhibits unexpected properties that lead to new…
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The Content-Understanding-Environment (C-U-E) framework incorporates key findings from research and is easy to use and remember. Further, current professional development for science teachers usually focuses on only one…
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The strategies associated with the “Content” aspect of the framework help keep us focused on the question “Why am I doing this?” Clearly, we need to know and be able to articulate why we are addressing particular…
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This chapter focuses on strategies you can use as you work with students to develop their understanding of science concepts. After reviewing the research on effective science instruction, six instructional strategies…
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Content and understanding strategies contribute in large measure to the instruction we provide. Yet the effectiveness of the most carefully crafted lessons and instruction will be enhanced or undermined by the classroom…
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The Content-Understanding-Environment instructional framework presented in this book is meant to add some tools to your toolbox. Many of the tools are ones that you already use, but others may be sitting on your…
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The Chronology of Course Design
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Although the unpredictability of leading a lecture-free class may be unsettling at first, the author encourages you to embrace the energy that accompanies this pedagogy. Flexibility and responsiveness to what happens…
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Change in Secondary Science Settings: A Voice From the Field
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Learning science by inquiry is central to science education reforms. In today’s working world, students need skills for finding, organizing, and managing information. They also need rich skills for working with others…
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An old saying goes, “The only constant is change.” No truer words have ever been spoken, especially in a time of reform. As a matter of fact, reform is change. This chapter examines change from two perspectives. The…
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The Role of Curriculum Materials in Reform
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Distinguishing between standards-based curriculum materials and others requires considerable expertise in science content and pedagogy. Research suggests that even experienced teachers may not recognize how standards-…
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Learning From Innovative Instructional Materials and Making Them Your Own
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This chapter examines the interplay between the intended implementation of designed, innovative instructional materials and the enacted curriculum by teachers who are accustomed to customizing their own instruction.…
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