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Understanding Static Electricity and Magnetism
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand static electricity…
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Understanding Current Electricity
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand current…
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand pressure. The…
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand work and energy.…
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand light. The…
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Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand sound. The…
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The Teaching of Science: Contemporary Challenges
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This chapter introduces the subsequent chapters with major themes and an emphasis for the book. It also sets forth the themes of curriculum and instruction as they relate to science teachers.
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The Teaching of Science Content
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This chapter presents the ideals and spirit of Paul F-Brandwein. In particular, it brings contemporary ideas to themes that he presented almost 50 years ago. Those themes include the substance of science education,…
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The Science Curriculum and Classroom Instruction
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This chapter uses the major contributions of Bob Karplus to develop several important themes that have emerged in the past five decades of curriculum and instruction in science. The chapter begins with a perspective on…
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The 2008 Robert H. Carleton Lecture provides the content for Chapter 4. The chapter centers on the themes of teaching science as inquiry. After a brief introduction to the history of inquiry in science education, the…
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Science Teaching and Assessing Students’ Scientific Literacy
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This chapter introduces some dimensions of scientific literacy and describes PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, as the basis for understanding scientific literacy from both teaching and assessment…
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Fulfilling National Aspirations Through
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This chapter and chapter 7 provide contemporary perspectives on the response of science education to national priorities and goals. This theme is explored with reflections from the Sputnik era of curriculum reform.…
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Teaching Science as Inquiry and Developing 21st-Century Skills
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Contemporary national aspirations also include maintaining economic competitiveness. The economic theme is a relatively short-term goal, and for science education it implies preparation of a 21st-century workforce. For…
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A Perspective on the Reform of Science Teaching
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This chapter presents a perspective on reform. It begins with a brief review of the instructional core, then turns to a larger view of reform, one that includes broader questions of goals and progresses to the most…
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How Do We Know What the Climate Was Like in the Past?
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In this Data Puzzle, students interpret a multiparameter graph of pollen data from a sediment core collected in the northeastern United States to assess changes that occurred in the tree community over a period of about…
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