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Interdisciplinary learning in science integrates two or more disciplines into coherent connections to enable students to generate meaningful associations.

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Dog Days At School: Using Authenticity to Guide cross-curricular Learning in Kindergarten

The presented unit explores the often-overlooked potential of integrating science, social studies, math, and ELA through the lens of a kindergarten un...

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Introducing Engineering Design to First-Year Students Through the Net Zero Energy Challenge

First-year engineering students are often introduced to the engineering design process through project-based learning situated in a concrete design co...

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Reimagining Science as a Natural Tool for Connection: A Restorative Approach

This paper explores a restorative-type intervention with a high school student who is suspended from school for repeated threats to other students. Th...

 

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“Black is Beautiful”: A Culturally Relevant/Responsive High School Biology Lesson

This biology lesson uses the science of central dogma to “critique and question the politics of representation that systematically devalue[s] Blackn...

 

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Using Citizen Science to Learn About Climate Change: Investigating the Phenomenon of Increasing Carbon Dioxide Levels Using Fossil Ginkgo Leaves

Science classrooms are most engaging when students have the opportunity to engage in the practices of scientists. Unfortunately, many attempts to inco...

 

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Uncovering Earth’s History, One Sample at a Time

Teaching Through Trade Books...

 

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Dog Days At School: Using Authenticity to Guide cross-curricular Learning in Kindergarten

The presented unit explores the often-overlooked potential of integrating science, social studies, math, and ELA through the lens of a kindergarten un...

 

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Mapping in Two and Three Dimensions

Second graders used their own school-ground explorations, using journals and iPads for pictures and narrated videos, to create traditional, two-dimens...

 

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Changes in the Leaves

The Poetry of Science...

 

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Disciplinary Differences in STEM Faculty and Student Use of Learning Objectives: Implications for Teaching and Learning

Using learning objectives to guide course design is often considered an educational best practice, but little research exists that explores how studen...

 

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We have more in common than we think: A comparison of scientific skills and disciplinary practices in the guiding documents for Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics

Students are encouraged to develop a set of scientific skills and disciplinary practices common across the STEM disciplines....

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