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Learning Science With Inquiry in the Clark County School District
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In 2005, Project PASS—Proficiency And Success in Science—was funded as a Mathematics and Science Partnership by the Nevada Department of Education. This three-year collaborative project was initiated with the goals of…
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Natural Scientists: Children in Charge
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This chapter discusses how the authors refined their teaching practices to allow young children to begin to develop inquiry process skills. In previous years, the process skills of science were addressed because…
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Science Is Not a Spectator Sport: Three Principles From 15 years of Project <em>Dragonfly</em>
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Project Dragonfly at Miami University was founded on the premise that the most powerful way to engage children in learning is to celebrate their voices, to invite them into the community of discovery, and to allow them…
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Student Inquiry and Research: Developing Students’ Authentic Inquiry Skills
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In the 2005 NSTA monograph Exemplary Science in Grades 9–12: Standards-Based Success Stories, the authors present and discussed student inquiry at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) (Scheppler et al.…
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From Wyoming to Florida, They Ask, “Why Wasn’t I Taught This Way?”
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As educators recognize the power of inquiry in the classroom, the Conceptual Change Model (CCM) is gaining popularity across the country. Those who are using CCM are reporting that students are highly engaged and…
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Student Outreach Initiative: Sowing the Seeds of Future Success
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This chapter features the Student Outreach Initiative project developed as a collaborative research community between USDA/Agricultural Research Service/Southern Plains Area (ARS/SPA) laboratories and their local…
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Developing Inquiry Skills Along a Teacher Professional Continuum
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The setting for this chapter is Bradley University—a midsize, private, comprehensive university in a Midwestern community of approximately a quarter million people. In the past decade, new faculty members have brought…
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Promoting Inquiry With Preservice Elementary Teachers Through a Science Content Course
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Inquiry science teaching is effective at all levels, from elementary classes to higher education. It is important, therefore, that preservice education majors who will be teaching science understand the differences…
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Developing a Relationship With Science Through Authentic Inquiry
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In this chapter, the authors first describe the theoretical framework they have developed for understanding and developing their work as teachers. They start by articulating their own understanding of teaching and…
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The authors contend that preservice training in Project-Based Science (PBS) facilitates early faithful implementation of PBS, which in turn provides students with the opportunity to engage in the public discourse and…
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Using Socioscientific Issues as Contexts for Teaching Concepts and Content
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This chapter focuses upon the conceptual development and implementation of a socioscientific issues (SSI) curriculum in two high school science classrooms. The scenarios and perspectives described in this chapter…
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Securing a “Voice”: The Environmental Science Summer Research Experience for Young
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Roland Park Country School is an urban college preparatory school for students in grades K–12 located in Baltimore, Maryland. An independent all-girls school, the institution maintains a commitment to community outreach…
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Two settings build the premise for this chapter and comprise the Connecting Humans and Nature through Conservation Experiences (CHANCE) program. The first setting is a summer field course in Costa Rica and the second is…
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Engaging Students in Content Learning
and Scientific Critique Through a Nanoscience ContextBook Chapter |
Nanoscience is increasingly visible in scientific endeavors, new technologies, and engineered products. Citizens and students must develop a sense of what constitutes scientific evidence of the positive and negative…
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As in many other education jurisdictions, environmental education in Ontario is infused throughout the science curriculum. This infusion requires students to not only understand the science behind environmental issues,…
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