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Methods and Strategies: Oral Science Stories

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue shows how teachers can use culturally responsive storytelling to teach socioeconomically disadvantaged students....

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Safer Science: Student Tests for Safer Labs

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of safety tests to help students demonstrate their proficiency in lab safety....

High School General Science Lesson Plans Pedagogy Safety

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Formative Assessment Probes: Talk Moves

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. In this issue a formative assessment strategy for fostering productive probe discussions is described....

Elementary Assessment Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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Methods and Strategies: Beyond the Textbook—But Not Just "Hands-On"

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how to use high-quality informational texts to meet the Next Generation Science Standards....

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Methods and Strategies: Using Acorns to Generate an Entire Alphabet

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how nature walks empower young bilingual learners....

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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Students' Concept of Matter

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s probe can be used to elicit young children's ideas about matter. The probe reveals commonly held ideas elementary students have about the types of objects, materials, and su...

Early Childhood Elementary Chemistry Assessment Pedagogy

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Science 2.0: Do I Need a Robot?

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses telepresence robots and their use in the classroom....

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Science 2.0: Did They Really Read It?

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses tech tools that reinforce student attention and help teachers assess student work done independently from a teacher's direct observation....

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