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Growing Garden-based Learning: Mapping Practical and Theoretical Work through Design

Environmental Science
Science
Elementary

Echoing calls to expand environmental education research through design, this study explores the role of design in garden-based education and illustrate its contributions towards practical impact and theoretical insight. Design can explicate and map conjectures about resources, tasks, roles, and other supports for learning and teaching then, in turn, can be teste to illuminate how these supports operate together. Design, as such, focuses holistically on examining systems of activity.

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Author/Presenter: 
Steven J. Zuiker
Amanda K. Riske
Lead Organization(s): 
Arizona State University (ASU)
Year: 
2021
Short Description: 

Echoing calls to expand environmental education research through design, this study explores the role of design in garden-based education and illustrate its contributions towards practical impact and theoretical insight.

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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program) Full Proposal Deadline

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Wed, 08/25/2021 - 5:00pm
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Full Proposal Deadline

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Wed, 07/21/2021 - 5:00pm
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National Science Foundation (NSF)

Institutional and Community Transformation Capacity-Building Proposals
Engaged Student Learning and Institutional and Community Transformation Level 1 Proposals

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Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
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Racial Equity in STEM Education (EHR Racial Equity) Full Proposal Deadline

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Tue, 07/13/2021 - 5:00pm
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National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Engineering
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Science
Technology
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8 Lesson Plans to Integrate JEI into the Classroom

Science
High

Includes eight separate lesson plans to help integrate the primary literature into the classroom.

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Author/Presenter: 
JEI Project Team
Lead Organization(s): 
Emory University
Year: 
2020
Short Description: 

Includes eight separate lesson plans to help integrate the primary literature into the classroom.

Student Ideas about the Small Particle Model of Matter

Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Elementary

What ideas do students have about small particles of matter? The Two Cups of Liquid task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT related to students’ ideas about the small particle model (SPM) for matter. The first part of the task asks preservice teachers to articulate their own understanding about why two cups containing different volumes of liquid might have the same mass, while the second examines how elementary students might respond.

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Author/Presenter: 
CKT Science Project Team
Lead Organization(s): 
Western Washington University (WWU)
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Year: 
2020
Short Description: 

What ideas do students have about small particles of matter? The Two Cups of Liquid task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT related to students’ ideas about the small particle model (SPM) for matter.

Scientific Modeling and the Structure of Matter

Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Elementary

What does it mean to help students develop a small particle model of matter? The Mystery Bubble task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT related to students’ ideas about the small particle model (SPM) for matter, particularly the idea of empty space between the particles. The task presents a phenomenon in which combining ethanol and water results in a mixture that occupies less space than the combined volume of each.

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https://cktscience.org/
Author/Presenter: 
CKT Science Project Team
Lead Organization(s): 
Western Washington University (WWU)
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Year: 
2020
Short Description: 

What does it mean to help students develop a small particle model of matter? The Mystery Bubble task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT related to students’ ideas about the small particle model (SPM) for matter, particularly the idea of empty space between the particles.

Scientific Explanations of Changes in Matter

Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Elementary

What is a scientific explanation and how can we support students in explaining changes in matter? The Fizzy Antacid task is intended to elicit and develop preservice teachers’ CKT related to students’ scientific explanations of changes in matter. The first part of the task asks preservice teachers to develop their own explanations and engage in scientific argumentation, while considering how elementary students might explain the Fizzy Antacid phenomenon.

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https://cktscience.org/
Author/Presenter: 
CKT Science Project Team
Lead Organization(s): 
Western Washington University (WWU)
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Year: 
2020
Short Description: 

What is a scientific explanation and how can we support students in explaining changes in matter? The Fizzy Antacid task is intended to elicit and develop preservice teachers’ CKT related to students’ scientific explanations of changes in matter.

Investigating Conservation of Matter

Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Elementary

What investigations can help students best understand conservation of matter? The Investigating Matter tasks are intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT related to the conservation of matter. The open-ended task asks preservice teachers to identify an investigation that would provide students with evidence to support this idea, while the multiple-choice version, Selecting Investigation of Matter, provides them several alternatives to consider.

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https://cktscience.org/
Author/Presenter: 
CKT Science Project Team
Lead Organization(s): 
Western Washington University (WWU)
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Year: 
2020
Short Description: 

What investigations can help students best understand conservation of matter? The Investigating Matter tasks are intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT related to the conservation of matter.

Instructional Goals and Big Ideas for Teaching about Materials

Science
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Elementary

How can we align activities with instructional goals to support student understanding of matter and materials? The Building a Tower Task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT about descriptions and appropriate uses of materials based on their properties.

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https://cktscience.org/
Author/Presenter: 
CKT Science Project Team
Lead Organization(s): 
Western Washington University (WWU)
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Year: 
2020
Short Description: 

How can we align activities with instructional goals to support student understanding of matter and materials? The Building a Tower Task is intended to elicit preservice teachers’ CKT about descriptions and appropriate uses of materials based on their properties.

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