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Raven, Sara; Klein, Vanessa; Namdar, Bahadir – Science Teacher, 2016
Argumentation has long been promoted as a core scientific practice in which students should engage, yet science classrooms still often omit it. One remedy is to incorporate socioscientific issues (SSIs) in the curricula. SSIs are open-ended and complex, typically subject to multiple perspectives and solutions. These issues, influenced by science…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Criticism, Critical Thinking, Skill Development
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Lukes, Laura – Science Teacher, 2014
Because Laura Lukes used to be a geologist, when she started teaching science, she wanted to incorporate field experiences in her classroom. But, like many teachers, she faced obstacles: insufficient budgets, testing requirements, a lack of chaperones and transportation, and the safety concerns that come with fieldwork. As a result, a real field…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Visual Aids
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Bautista, Nazan – Science Teacher, 2014
A national survey reports that 42% of mainstream teachers have English language learners (ELLs) in their classrooms, but only 12.5% say they have been prepared to work with them (National Center for Education Statistics 2002). This article supplies a framework to address the cognitive demands of ELLs with varying proficiency levels, guided by the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Cognitive Ability, Science Instruction
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Fowler, Kelsie; Noel, Saraswati – Science Teacher, 2022
Instead of having their students' first experience with biology that did not address issues of racism in science, Kelsie Fowler and Saraswati Noel created a unit drew on storytelling and artistic expression which is rare in science education, where these modes helped them center what really mattered to them--their Black students' personal…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Genetics, Physical Characteristics
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Wysession, Michael E. – Science Teacher, 2013
The "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS"), due to be released this spring, represents a revolutionary step toward establishing modern, national K-12 science education standards. Based on the recommendations of the National Research Council's "A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Space Sciences, Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science
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Fuller, Kirsten; Abi-El-Mona, Issam – Science Teacher, 2019
After the summer nesting period, broad winged hawks are known for migrating nearly 10,000 kilometers, (6,200 miles) each fall from their breeding grounds in North America to tropical biomes in South America, where they spend the winter. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has labeled broad-winged hawks as a species of "least…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Animals, Teaching Methods, Standards
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Simpson, Lauren; Whitworth, Brooke A. – Science Teacher, 2019
For the past 15 years, pine forests across the United States have experienced devastating mountain and southern pine beetle outbreaks (Rosner 2015). These outbreaks are not uncommon but have become increasingly severe. Due to the effects of global warming, pine beetles have been able to survive warmer winters in their native habitats, producing…
Descriptors: Ecology, Science Instruction, Biology, High School Students
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Vondracek, Mark – Science Teacher, 2013
Students who do not progress to more advanced science disciplines in college generally do not realize that seemingly simple physical systems are--when studied in detail--more complex than one might imagine. This article presents one such phenomenon--the hydraulic jump--as a way to help students see the complexity behind the seemingly simple, and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Water, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Research
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Hegedus, Tess; Segarra, Verónica A.; Allen, Tawannah G.; Wilson, Hillary; Garr, Casey; Budzinski, Christina – Science Teacher, 2016
The authors developed an integrated science-and-art program to engage science students from a performing arts high school in hands-on, inquiry based lab experiences. The students participated in eight biology-focused investigations at a local university with undergraduate mentors. After the laboratory phase of the project, the high school students…
Descriptors: Investigations, Extracurricular Activities, Art Education, Science Education
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Canipe, Martha; Tolbert, Sara – Science Teacher, 2016
As institutions, science and science education alike have rarely included the perspectives and contributions of indigenous peoples pertaining to the natural world. Yet, people worldwide have benefited from the traditional ecological knowledge of indigenous communities. Western science and technology, though broadly worthwhile, have been a source…
Descriptors: Science Education, Climate, Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology
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Schafer, Zachary C.; Scharmann, Lawrence C. – Science Teacher, 2021
Many students possess their own unique potential and "genius," but seem to base their worth on the status of grades instead of their connection to education itself. Antonio Salieri, for instance, created wonderful, emotionally binding music throughout his lifetime. Salieri however, never saw the beauty in his work because Mozart, a child…
Descriptors: Musicians, Musical Composition, Aesthetics, Gifted
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Staehling, Erica – Science Teacher, 2015
This article describes a lesson on the greenhouse effect in which students explore blackbody radiation and Wien's law. The lesson, which has been tested in a variety of high school physics classrooms, uses probeware and online simulations and combines two well-established instructional strategies: the 5E Learning Cycle (Bybee et al. 2006) and the…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Climate, Scientific Concepts, Scientific Principles
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Philippof, Joanna; Seraphin, Kanesa Duncan; Seki, Jennifer; Kaupp, Lauren – Science Teacher, 2015
The periodic table does more than provide information about the elements. The periodic table also helps us make predictions about how the elements behave. Understanding the atomic structure of matter and periodic properties of the elements, as shown in the periodic table, is fundamental to many scientific disciplines. Unfortunately, high school…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, High School Students
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Kruse, Jerrid; Wilcox, Jesse – Science Teacher, 2015
High school students often enter classrooms with misconceptions about density. While many students may have studied the concept in middle school, they lack the understanding on which to build more advanced concepts, such as the particulate nature of matter. This lack of understanding poses problems for students' learning about Pascal's principle…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
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McCormack, Stacy – Science Teacher, 2015
In the fall of 2008, Stacy McCormack's students were caught up in the presidential election, and she began to wonder how she might harness this passion for politics in her high school physics classroom. At about the same time, a friend recommended the book "Physics for Future Presidents" (Muller 2008), which led her to develop a year…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
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