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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Earth's Changing Surface
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue shows how to help children understand the crosscutting concept Stability and Change by looking at changes to the Earth's surface over…
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Formative Assessment Probes: No More Plants
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how to uncover students' ideas about interdependency and change.
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Methods and Strategies: Garden-Based Learning: It's Just the Berries!
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes indoor and outdoor experiences that engage students in plant science.
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Science 101: How Does Stable Equilibrium Differ From Other Kinds of Equilibrium?
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This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses the different types of equilibrium.
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The Early Years: Recognizing Stability and Change
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue introduces and discusses the concepts of stability and change in systems.
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To make our general education biology course for nonmajors more relevant and engaging, we recently implemented an instructional approach featuring collaborative, active-learning exercises. The primary point of interest…
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Large-enrollment undergraduate science courses are often seen as “gatekeepers” and tend to support less-than-ideal pedagogical approaches. Student satisfaction with teaching and learning and gains in student conceptual…
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As science teacher educators attempt to prepare teachers to underscore the aims of the Next Generation Science Standards alongside the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, they must pay close attention to the…
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Helping Students Save: Assigning Textbooks Early Can Save Money and Enhance Learning
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Education costs, especially textbook prices, are outpacing inflation and becoming a serious financial burden for college students. Because student textbook use is linked to academic performance, making textbooks more…
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The use of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction has the affordances of combining harmonious content area connections into real-world experiences that are both engaging and…
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An Improved Design for In-Class Review
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We present the theory and implementation of a review strategy based on testing rather than lecturing. We also show the results of a beginning-of-course review using the format of a two-stage examination, in which…
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Two-Year Community: Integrating Reading Skills in an Introductory Science Classroom
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Typically science textbooks communicate information in a discipline-specific manner. To read an average science textbook, students need to understand cause/effect, learn a new language, interpret charts/graphs, and make…
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Case Study: The 20/80% Rule: Presentation Is the Key
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There are a million things that we do in the classroom every day that make or break a lesson. Just as there are good ways to give a lecture, there is an assortment of ways to encourage discussion, starting with how we…
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The learning goals of a lower division honors course, Science as a Way of Knowing, include critical thinking, scientific literacy, quantitative reasoning, communication, and teamwork. To help students develop skills and…
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Research and Teaching: During POGIL Implementation the Professor Still Makes a Difference
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One common notion is that all classrooms using Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) are the same. Though POGIL has essential components, this research found that students’ conceptual achievement, a classroom…
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