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Systems Concepts Effectively Taught Using Systems Practices
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This article describes two lessons within the authors’ education module entitled, Ecological Networks, that successfully teaches introductory systems content to middle and high school students. To catch students’…
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The Prepared Practitioner: Constructivism and Conceptual Change, Part II
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As complex and theoretical as constructivist principles sounds, classroom application often boils down to two precepts. First, learning is an active process—it does not happen passively. Learners need to mentally…
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If Stones Could Talk...Epitaphs feed data for a unique after-school club
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Students learn science and mathematics through inquiry-based investigations using technology and the unique history of a local cemetery. This project helped students learn how to combine the learning of science and…
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Make Your Own Digital Thermometer!
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In the hands-on, guided-inquiry lesson presented in this article, high school students create, calibrate, and apply an affordable scientific-grade instrument (Lapp and Cyrus 2000). In just four class periods, they build…
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A guided inquiry helps students view an equilibrium system from the particulate level.
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Middle school students can develop and enhance their observation skills by participating in teacher-guided scientific inquiry activities where they observe animals that tend to act in known, predictable ways. Using…
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue explains how using upper-class undergraduates as…
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Through a project funded by the National Science Foundation, Horizon Research has been developing assessment items for students (in the process, compiling item-writing principles from several sources and adding their…
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Commentary: Finding Purpose—Reflecting Upon Curriculum and Assessment
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An opinion piece about how the purpose of teaching plays a sginificant role in how lessons are received and valued. The challenge for teachers is to critically reflect upon the purpose of their curriculum and…
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Good Science Begins With Good Questions
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Students in a large, active-learning, freshman biology class learned to ask better questions with the aid of a new taxonomy for student questions. The taxonomy provided a tool that helped them (and the instructors) to…
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Who Wants to Make Assessment Fair?
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An assessment strategy based on the television game show, “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” helps teachers make grading fair. The author describes which game show strategies to apply to classroom assessment and which to…
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Scope on the Skies: Tidal forces
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Tidal forces are gravitational and vary between objects; in this case between the Moon and Earth. With an elliptical orbit, the Moon's gravitational influence, its tidal force, on the Earth varies with each apogee and…
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Cemeteries provide students with the opportunity to learn science in an unusual outdoor setting. In this activity, find out how Earth science, math, and history can be brought together in a field trip to your local…
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Commentary: The Science of Special Education
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An opinion piece about the need to improve science curricula in the area of special education.
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Resources like university science camps, 4-H, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America can help motivate curious students with experiences related to community concerns and interests, while also exposing students to…
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