| Acknowledgments |
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| About the Author |
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| Introduction |
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| Science Education Topics |
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| Classroom Safety Practices |
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Section 1 Welcome Back to Interactive Teaching and Experiential, Participatory Learning |
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Activity 1 Comeback Cans: Potentially Energize "You CAN Do" Science Attitudes |
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Activity 2 The Unnatural Nature and Uncommon Sense of Science: The Top 10 Crazy Ideas of Science and Challenges of Learning Science |
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Section 2 Science as a Unique Way of Knowing: Nature Of Science and Scientific Inquiry |
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Activity 3 Dual-Density Discrepancies: Ice Is Nice and Sugar Is Sweet |
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Activity 4 Inferences, Inquiry, and Insight: Meaningful "Miss-takes" |
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Activity 5 Pseudoscience in the News: Preposterous Propositions and Media Mayhem Matters |
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Activity 6 Scientific Reasoning: Inside, Outside, On, and Beyond the Box |
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Activity 7 Magic Bus of School Science: "Seeing" What Can't Be Seen |
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Activity 8 Reading Between the Lines of the Daily Newspaper: Molecular Magic |
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Activity 9 Pondering Puzzling Patterns and a Parable Poem |
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Section 3 Science for All Americans Curriculum Standards |
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Activity 10 Follow That Star: National Science Education Standards and True North |
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Activity 11 "Horsing Around": Curriculum-Instruction-Assessment Problems |
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Activity 12 Magical Signs of Science: "Basic Indicators" for Student Inquiry |
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Activity 13 Verifying Vexing Volumes: "Can Be as Easy as Pi" Mathematics |
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Activity 14 Archimedes, the Syracuse (Sicily) Scientist: Science Rules Balance and Bathtub Basics |
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Activity 15 Measurements and Molecules Matter: Less Is More and Curriculum "Survival of the Fittest" |
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Activity 16 Bottle Band Basics: A Pitch for Sound Science |
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Activity 17 Metric Measurements, Magnitudes, and Mathematics: Connections Matter in Science |
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Section 4 Science-Technology-Society (STS) and Real-World Science Instruction |
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Activity 18 Medical Metaphor Mixer: Modeling Infectious Diseases |
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Activity 19 Cookie Mining: A Food-for-Thought Simulation |
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Activity 20 Making Sense by Spending Dollars: An Enlightening STS Exploration of CFLs, or How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change the World? |
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Section 5 Assessment to Inform Learning and Transform Teaching |
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Activity 21 A Terrible Test That Teaches: Curriculum-Embedded Assessment |
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Activity 22 Diagnostic Assessment: Discrepant Event or Essential Educational Experiment? |
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| Appendix A Alternative, Naive, Preinstructional, Pre-scientific, or Prior Conceptions Matter: Misconceptions, or a Rose by Any Other Name Is Still as Sweet (and/or as Thorny) |
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| Appendix B The S2EE2R Demonstration Analysis Form |
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| Appendix C Science Content and Process Skills |
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| Research Cited |
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| Index |
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