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| Preface | |
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| The Scientist Within | |
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| An Invitation to Teaching Science | |
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| What Is Science, and Why Teach It? | |
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| Science as a Process, a Set of Ideas, and a Way of Thinking | |
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| The Value of Teaching Science | |
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| Video CASE: Inquiry Learning | |
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| How Do Students Learn Science? | |
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| Key Tenets of Constructivist Theory | |
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| Implications for Teaching | |
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| Science Story: Listening to Students' Ideas | |
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| Science Story: The Search for Understanding: A Toaster Story | |
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| Standards for Science Education | |
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| The Diversity of Science Students | |
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| Questions to Ask About Your Students | |
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| Connecting Science to All Students | |
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| The Role of Technology in Today's Science Teaching | |
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| Technology Education Standards | |
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| Ways of Using Technology | |
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| Issues of Technology Access | |
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| Becoming a Science Teacher | |
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| Locating Your Scientific Self | |
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| Science Story: Why the Balloon Doesn't Pop: An Experience for New Teachers | |
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| Teachers as Scientists | |
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| Beliefs About Science: We Teach What We Think | |
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| What Is a Scientist? | |
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| Stereotype Versus Reality | |
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| Drawing a Scientist | |
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| Interviewing a Scientist | |
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| Reflective Practice I: Your Science Autobiography | |
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| Writing Your Science Autobiography | |
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| Reflecting on Your Science Autobiography | |
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| Reflective Practice II: Keeping a Science Journal | |
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| A Bird Story: Sample Entries from a Science Journal | |
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| Learning from Your Science Journal | |
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| Some Guidelines for Your Own Science Journal | |
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| The Inner Scientist | |
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| Doing Science With Students: Inquiry In Practice | |
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| The Teacher as Mediator and Facilitator of Student Learning | |
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| Science Story: The Bottle and the Balloon | |
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| expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Helping Students Construct Meaning | |
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| Prior Knowledge | |
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| Valuing the Students' Thinking | |
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| Mediating the Students' Learning | |
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| science Story: Icicles | |
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| The Next Day: From Icicles to Ice Cubes | |
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| expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Mediation and Alternative Conceptions | |
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| Video Case: Inquiry Learning | |
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| Science Story: The "Skin" of Water | |
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| An Experiment to Explore Shondra's Question | |
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| Further Experiments and Discussion | |
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| More Challenges | |
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| expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Students as Knowers | |
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| Science as a Process: Using the Skills of Scientific Study | |
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| Science Notebooks | |
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| The Science Circus | |
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| Science Story: The Circus Comes to Mount Holly | |
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| An Old Log | |
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| The Soda Can | |
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| Crazy Rocks | |
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| The Leaky Faucet | |
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| The Penny in the Pie Pan | |
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| Three Types of Soil | |
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| The Weather Station | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Extending Our Senses with Computer Technology | |
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| Real-Time Data Collection Software | |
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| Digital Video Technology | |
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| Science in the Classroom and in Everyday Life | |
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| Family Science Night | |
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| Making Connections: Scientific Explorations in the Students' Own Environment | |
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| Green Science and the Importance of Experiences with Nature | |
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| Diversity Within and Without | |
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| Seeing the Larger Picture: Content Plus Context | |
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| From Alienation to Inclusion | |
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| Video Case: Gender Equity in Science Learning | |
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| Science Corners | |
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| Making the Science Corner an Interactive Experience | |
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| Connections to Literature and Other Subjects | |
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| Sample Science Corners from Around the Country | |
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| Local Explorations of Global Environmental Issues | |
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| Science Story: Ecology Disrupted | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Science Story: How Much Milk Are We Wasting? | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Field Trips | |
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| Science Story: Making Connections, Inside and Outside the Classroom | |
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| An Urban Park and the Story in the Rocks | |
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| The Osage | |
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| A Snow Story | |
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| Two Seashores | |
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| Investigating a Natural Disaster | |
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| Coconuts Outside the Door | |
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| A Virtual Field Trip | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| The Daily Life of the Classroom | |
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| Matter Matters: Getting Messy With Ordinary Objects | |
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| Classifying | |
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| Science Story: Exploring Solids, Liquids, and Gases | |
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| Science Story: Mysterious Matter | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| If It's So Messy, Can It Be Science? | |
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| Messiness in the Classroom | |
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| Video Case: A Return to the Mystery Bag Lesson | |
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| Messiness in the Categories | |
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| Sustained Inquiry: Explorations of Living Things | |
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| Science Story: What Does It Mean to Be Alive? | |
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| What Makes a Rabbit Real? | |
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| Are Plants Alive? | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Plants and Animals in Your Science Corner | |
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| Science Story: From Seed to Plant: A Failed Experiment | |
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| Science Story: What's Inside a Seed? | |
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| The Following Days: Germination Bags | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Science Story: Planting in a Vacant Lot | |
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| Science Story: When Is a Vegetable a Fruit? | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| A Classroom Invertebrate | |
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| Observing and Investigating Earthworms | |
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| Science Story: Learning About Earthworms | |
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| Questions for Investigations | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Working Together to Conduct Investigations over Time | |
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| Spiraling Curriculum: Explorations of Density | |
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| Science Story: Looking at Liquids | |
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| The Next Day: Building Science Toys to Illustrate Density | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Science Story: Delving Deeper into Density | |
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| The Floating Egg | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Extending Curriculum: Taking Advantage of Emerging Relevance | |
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| Video Case: Effective Teaching | |
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| Science Story: Floating and Sinking Fruits | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Looking Back to Look Ahead | |
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| Science Story: Apples, Potatoes, and Density | |
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| The Following Days: Further Tests and Measurements | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| "Replacement" of Understandings | |
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| Virtual and Concrete Models: Explorations in the Solar System | |
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| The Usefulness of Models | |
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| Science Story: An Edible Solar System | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Science Story: A Model Orbit | |
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| Video Case: Studying Genes with a Simulation | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Science Story: Shapes of the Moon | |
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| The Same Side of the Moon | |
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| Modeling the Moon Phases | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Using Moon-Phase Journals | |
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| Moving Beyond the Science Kit: Explorations of Electricity and Atoms | |
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| Science Story: Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires | |
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| Science Story: Batteries, Bulbs, and Wires Revisited | |
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| The Next Day: Lighting a Shoebox House | |
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| Bye-Bye Light Bulb | |
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| Continuing Investigations | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind These Stories | |
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| The Standards Behind These Stories | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Thinking About Teaching and Learning | |
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| Science Story: Making Models of Atoms | |
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| Exploring the History of Atomic Theory | |
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| Mystery Boxes | |
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| Discussing the Nucleus | |
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| The Periodic Table | |
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| The Atom Design Challenge | |
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| Expanding Meanings | |
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| The Teaching Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Science Ideas Behind This Story | |
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| The Standards Behind This Story | |
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| Exploring Further | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Design Technology | |
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| Creating The Science Experience In Your Classroom | |
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| Planning for Science: Lesson Plans and Instructional Strategies | |
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| An Activity Is Not a Lesson | |
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| Planning the Lesson | |
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| A Planning Guide | |
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| If I Know It, Do I Have to Write It? | |
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| Time Allotment | |
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| After the Planning, the Letting Go! The Role of Questioning | |
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| Types of Questions | |
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| A Word About Wait Time | |
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| Science Learning Groups: Creating an Environment for Cooperative Learning | |
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| Cooperative Learning Groups | |
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| Constructivism and Small-Group Learning | |
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| Scientific Investigation and Group Learning | |
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| Structuring Cooperative Learning Groups in Your Classroom | |
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| Group Learning with Technology: WebQuests and Online Collaborations | |
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| Science Story: A WebQuest on Marine Organisms | |
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| Underwater Adventure | |
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| Mission | |
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| Resources | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Inclusive Science Education | |
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| Science and the Inclusion Model | |
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| Classroom Strategies for Doing | |
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| Science with Students with Disabilities | |
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| Technology to Increase the Success of Students with Disabilities | |
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| Video Case: Assistive Technology | |
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| Questions for Your Own Reflection | |
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| Science Content and Curriculum: The Big Ideas and Your Scientific Self | |
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| Making Big Ideas Your Own Ideas | |
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| Ways of Thinking About Science Topics | |
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| Systems | |
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| The Solar System | |
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| Thinking About Systems: The Interconnection of Parts | |
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| Human Body Systems | |
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| Thinking About Systems: Noticing Similarities and Differences | |
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| Simple Machines | |
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| Thinking About Systems: Simple Machines as Systems | |
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| Thinking About Systems: The Benchmarks for Science Literacy | |
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| The Earth as a Super-System | |
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| Interactions and Patterns of Change | |
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| Heat Energy and Matter | |
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| Thinking About Interactions: Chemical and Physical Changes | |
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| Thinking About Interactions: Links | |
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| Between Interactions and Systems | |
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| Electricity | |
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| Light | |
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| Thinking About Interactions: Making Connections: From Electricity to Heat and Light | |
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| Sound | |
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| Thinking About Interactions: Sound | |
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| Energy and Musical Instruments | |
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| Magnetism | |
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| From Content to Curriculum | |
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| Who Creates the Curriculum? | |
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| National Influence and Local Control | |
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| STEM Curriculum | |
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| Other Interdisciplinary Trends | |
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| Developing Curriculum Units | |
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| Aligning a Unit of Study with the Standard | |
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| Selecting Activities | |
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| What Is Missing? | |
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| A Checklist for the Science Curriculum | |
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| What's the Big Idea? | |
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| Matching Assessment to Instruction | |
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| Assessment and Testing | |
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| Assessment and the Instructional Context | |
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| Writing as an Assessment Tool in Science | |
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| A Sample Structure for a Science Notebook | |
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| Integrating Technology with Science Notebooks | |
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| Drawing Pictures and Telling Stories | |
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| Assessing Student Notebooks | |
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| Other Types of Writing Assignments | |
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| Science Story: Middle Schoolers Blog About Organelles | |
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| Video CASE: Using Blogs | |
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| Using Science Portfolios for Assessment | |
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| Assessing Student Portfolios | |
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| Using Science Conversations for Assessment | |
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| Using Technology to Assess Understanding | |
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| Concept Maps | |
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| Concept Cartoons | |
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| Electronic Presentations | |
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| Multiple Types of Performances | |
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| Science Story: Third Graders Enact the Water Cycle | |
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| Science Story: Second Graders Do a Station | |
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| Assessment for a Unit on Matter | |
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| Assessment and National Standards | |
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| Teaching, Learning, and Assessing | |
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| Pulling it All Together: Reflection and Self-Assessment | |
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| Your Scientific Self | |
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| Becoming a Reflective Teacher | |
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| Video CASE: Information Processing and Reflection | |
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| Developing a Personal Philosophy | |
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| Professional Development | |
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| Networking in the Profession | |
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| Promotion and Certification Requirements | |
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| Further Means of Professional Development | |
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| How Am I Doing? | |
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| A Guide to Self-Evaluation | |
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| Looking Back to Look Ahead: A New Chapter in Your Science | |
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| Autobiography | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Resources for Further Exploration | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |