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Idea Bank: Performance-Based Assessment
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Performance-based assessment is appropriate to use in a project-based, problem-based, or inquiry-based science classroom because it is consistent with the way students learn—by investigating a question or problem using…
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Interactive Word Walls: Transforming Content Vocabulary Instruction
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The authors implement an interactive word wall to support vocabulary development in science students, especially ELL students.
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Green Science: Building for the Future
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This first Green Science column will focus on the environmental features of NSTA’s new headquarters, the John Glenn Center for Science Education. The new building, which is currently being designed, will be constructed…
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Artificial Sanity: A Case Study for a Class in Introductory Psychology
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Using the story of death row inmate Charles Singleton, who developed paranoid schizophrenia while in prison awaiting execution, this case study explores the relationship between a society’s concept of mental illness and…
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Science Sampler: Accessible reading assignments
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A few simple reading strategies, properly utilized, can be dynamic, learning techniques. Here the author describes how these strategies helped to engage a student with learning difficulties related to head trauma.
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Investigations with Wisconsin Fast Plants can make the subject matter come alive…or dead, depending on the experimental treatment. This became apparent when a university-based teacher educator and a fifth-grade teacher…
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Data Versus Evidence: Investigating the Difference
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Science teachers and graduate students have developed activities and assessment tools that begin to help students make the distinction between data and evidence. Two activities are covered in this article.
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First graders experience inquiry during a lesson on seed germination and plant growth. Although limited inquiry is used in the beginning while students are planting, once the seeds germinate, students take control!…
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Teaching Science to Students from Rural Mexico
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George Roberts has been teaching ninth-grade Earth science in Gardston, Iowa, for 10 years. This year, as chair of the Gardston High School’s science department, he agreed to have all the English Language Learner (ELL)…
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To teach writing to science students, we designed a collaborative learning community linking students in biology and English courses in author-editor relationships. This article describes the project to date:…
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“Watch out, the stove will burn you,” “Ooh, ice cream headache!” Students construct their conceptions about heat and temperature through their own intuitions about daily life experiences. As a result, misconceptions can…
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Energy is what makes things move, light up, and radiate warmth—energy makes things happen and makes our lives easier, too. But despite the importance of energy to every aspect of our lives, many Americans are not…
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Idea Bank: Astronomy for Students With Sensory Impairments
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The Space Exploration and Experience (SEE) Project and Yerkes Astrophysics Academy for Young Scientists (YAAYS)—both at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin—are designed to promote…
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While there may be a strong human instinct to try to teach, how to teach is not instinctive—it’s habitual—and this leads to very different implications for the classroom and teacher preparation. College classroom…
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The experts address the following question in this month’s column: How do fireflies get their light power?
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