Resource Detail: Journal Article

This resource has 7 correlations with the National Standards.  
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• Science as Inquiry
  • Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry
    • Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations.

• Process Standards for Professional Development
  • Design
    • Introduce teachers to scientific literature, media, and technological resources that expand their science knowledge and their ability to access further knowledge. (NSES)
  • Learning
    • Build on the teacher's current science understanding, ability, and attitudes. (NSES)

• Content Standards
  • Quality Teaching
    • Deepens educators’ content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (NSDC)

• Teaching Standards
  • Teachers provide students with the time, space, and resources needed to learn science.
    • Create a setting for student work that is flexible and supportive of science inquiry.
    • Make the available science tools, materials, media, and technological resources accessible to students.
    • Identify and use resources outside the school.