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The Future of Fracking: Exploring Human Energy Use

Science
Standards
High

Today few states require Earth science as part of the high school curriculum—despite the fact that both NSES and AAAS Benchmarks have substantial Earth and space science content standards. However, this may change. The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) give equal importance to Earth and space science, physical science, life science and engineering.

Access Link
https://concord.org/newsletter/2013-spring/future-of-fracking/
Author/Presenter

Amy Pallant

Year
2013
Short Description

The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) give equal importance to Earth and space science, physical science, life science and engineering. It’s likely that the 26 Lead State Partners that helped develop the standards will adopt them in their entirety, which could provide a significant motivation for incorporating more Earth and space science content into their required curriculum.

Using Generic and Context--Specific Scaffolding to Support Authentic Science Inquiry

Science
Elementary
Middle
High

In this conceptual paper, we propose an heuristic to balance context-specific and generic scaffolding, as well as computer-based and teacher scaffolding, during instruction centered on authentic, scientific problems. This paper is novel in that many researchers ask a dichotomous question of whether generic or context-specific scaffolding is best, and fail to focus on what processes and cognitions each type of scaffolding excels at supporting.

Author/Presenter

Brian R. Belland

Jiangyue Gu

Sara Armbrust

Brant Cook

Year
2013
Resource(s)
Belland et al - 2013 - Using Generic and Context-Specific Scaffolding to Support Authentic Science Inquiry.pdf
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