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Interactive Reflective Logs: Opening Science Notebooks to Peer and Teacher Feedback
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Ho do we as educators ensure that all students are given the opportunity to respond or engage students who are embarrassed to speak in front of others? The authors created an interactive reflective log (IRL) to provide…
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Students are using the tools of scientists when keeping a science notebook. To bring students’ existing ideas out for examination, the author implemented a “quick-write,” which entails asking an open-ended question and…
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Science journals are wonderful tools. They offer a glimpse into children’s science understandings, and they are both diagnostic and pedagogically informative to teachers. Examining and reflecting on children’s journal…
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The P.O.E.T.R.Y. of Science: a Flexible Tool for Assessing Elementary Student Science Journals
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Writing about inquiry-based science experiences can provide students with opportunities to communicate their questions, observations, and reflections while expanding our instructional and assessment options as teachers…
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This Isn't English Class! Using Writing as an Assessment Tool in Science
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Writing is a huge part of science. It is the way scientists communicate ideas, results, conclusions, and opinions to other scientists. Thus, the author uses writing in a number of ways to have students demonstrate…
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Making Thinking Visible: A Method to Encourage Science Writing in Upper Elementary Grades
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Writing, in conjunction with other activities such as reading and hands-on experiences, contributes to greater critical thinking, thoughtful consideration of ideas, and better concept learning. This chapter discusses a…
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By using the writing process to explore science, students and teachers can find new ways of clarifying, revising, and consolidating knowledge. To achieve this goal, try using The Writing in Science Wheel activity…
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Helping Students Write About Science Without Plagiarizing
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Most students don't plagiarize just because they are lazy. Most of them simply do not know how to write about science. As teachers, we can use planning strategies to help make some of the process of writing automatic,…
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Learning to Write and Writing to Learn in Science: Refutational Texts and Analytical Rubrics
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Most middle school science teachers are familiar with the idea of reading and writing across the curriculum. We, as science teachers, understand that our students need time, practice, and lots of encouragement in order…
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A teacher’s success in instructing teenagers is substantially enhanced the more the teacher understands teenagers. Between brain development, changing hormonal makeup, and environmental stimuli, there can be no doubt…
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Conquering Culture and Psychology
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Students bring their own experience base to the classroom, and it may diverge greatly from that of the teacher. This makes it extremely important that teachers make an effort to understand the community in which they…
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Yes, Virginia, Study Habits and Learning
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Teachers like to point out in discussions pertaining to higher-order thinking that their students often struggle with lower-order thinking. Their point is well taken. There has been a trend away from making students…
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From Concepts to Principles to Processes to Equations
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There is a tendency for students to misunderstand order and priorities when learning advanced mathematics and physical science. Many times students become so focused on the equations that they fail to comprehend the…
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Doing Calculations the Right Way
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Observing a student trying to solve a word problem can often be a frustrating experience for the teacher. The secret to getting students to learn processes is to set their perspective. They need to look at problems…
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How to Analyze: Building the Perfect Laboratory Rat
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Mastering analytical thinking is equally important to problem-solving proficiency for students’ enrichment and their preparation for professional careers. Analytical thinking is one of the top three categories in Bloom’…
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