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Talk it Out! Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment with Dialogues
Getting ALL students involved in a class can be a difficult task. Getting students EXCITED about reading, writing, and learning can be an even MORE difficult task. Fortunately, the use of Dialogues is an easy strategy that any teacher can implement...
By Anne Levendusky and Gregory Bisbee
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Blackout Poetry: Eclipsing with words and images to Illuminate ideas
Integrating literacy practices in science classrooms can help students with reading complex scientific text, write arguments as part of shared cross-disciplinary practices and engage with content. In the Linking Science, Mathematics, and Literacy fo...
By Amy Lannin, Jeannie Sneller, and Heba Abdelnaby
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Easing into Socioscientific Issues and Critical Science Literacy
Including SSIs in the classroom can be a daunting task. To make this task more manageable, we have developed a strategy to easily create short modules for use in our classrooms that can be used to introduce new topics or apply previously learned topi...
By Mitchell Klocke and Jerrid W. Kruse
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Empowering Student Action Through Climate Literacy Development
In light of the International Panel on Climate Change's findings, this article underscores the detrimental effects of climate misinformation in the U.S. and its role in impeding public understanding and action. Leveraging the power of education, an 8...
By Jocelyn Miller, Gina Childers, and Rebecca Hite
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Just Because It Sounds Plausible, Doesn’t Mean It’s True
Plausible scientific arguments abound. Those who wish to deceive often weave a tangled web of plausible scientific arguments to support their case. What can the science teacher do to prevent their students being duped? Given that many of the claims a...
By Jonathan Osborne
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Promoting Scientific Literacy through the Writing of Abstracts
Students are provided with plenty of opportunities to acquire new knowledge based on the various scientific disciplines they explore in their schooling. However, it can sometimes be difficult to integrate activities that build scientific literacy ami...
By Alexander Eden
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Establishing AI Literacy before Adopting AI
As applications of AI have proliferated, the call has grown for educating students about what AI is, how it works, and how it can affect us. In response, [an American University], in collaboration with an external implementation partner, developed 12...
By Fiona Hollands, Cynthia Breazeal
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How Can We Make Our Students’ Thinking Visible?
Understanding our students’ thinking is paramount to moving a lesson forward and seeing where misconceptions exist. By providing particular prompts, we can uncover their thinking, take action, and enhance the overall learning experience for our stu...
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Becoming Scientifically Literate: Developing Epistemic Practices through Reading Scientific Papers
To help students confront pseudoscientific claims and misinformation in their everyday lives, it is important to develop the epistemic practices of scientists in the classroom. Many of these practices can be illuminated by challenging students to rea...
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Teaching for Tomorrow: Scientific Literacy in the Classroom
This article describes the integrated Coding, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSTEM) full-year course that aligns mathematical skill-building and computational thinking while applying them to real-world problems and the ways in whi...
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Science L.I.A.R.S.: A Game to Combat Misinformation
Science in the wild — misinformation beyond the boundaries of the science classroom and curated media sources — threatens our culture Here, I present one fun classroom activity, in an engaging game format, that fits in the NGSS framework and can ...
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