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Park, Byung-Yeol; Rodriguez, Laura; Campbell, Todd – Science Teacher, 2019
Cultivating students' scientific knowledge and developing their capability in scientific inquiry depends on a teacher's ability to use existing resources to design rich learning opportunities. Designing such experiences is not easy, and is particularly challenging for new teachers who have little experience making decisions about the best way to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Models, Teaching Methods, National Standards
Neilson, Drew; Campbell, Todd – Science Teacher, 2018
Science students should use mathematical and computational thinking to explain phenomena, but few examples of teachers engaging students in this important scientific practice have been found. This article describes a strategy for enhancing a lesson in which students use a mechanistic model to explain friction by adding mathematical and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Computation
Campbell, Todd; Schwarz, Christina; Windschitl, Mark – Science Teacher, 2016
The vision of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) "requires a dramatic departure from approaches to teaching and learning science occurring today in most science classrooms K-12" (Reiser 2013, p. 2). In this article the authors emphasize the importance of examining student misconceptions and correcting them with sense-making…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Science Instruction, Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Campbell, Todd; Neilson, Drew – Science Teacher, 2016
In this article Campbell and Neilson discuss several design strategies developed or adopted that were found particularly helpful when sequencing a unit that focused on learning about motion and acceleration. Students were expected to predict, observe, and explain why a ball traveled down one ramp faster than the other. Before engaging students,…
Descriptors: Models, Motion, Kinetics, Scientific Principles
Turley, Renee; Trotochaud, Alan; Campbell, Todd – Science Teacher, 2016
Sense-making has been described as working on and with ideas--both students' ideas and authoritative ideas in texts--to build coherent storylines, models, and/or explanations. This article describes the process for developing storyline units to support students' making sense of and explaining a rocket launch. The storyline approach, which aligns…
Descriptors: Aviation Technology, Units of Study, Concept Teaching, Story Telling
Medina-Jerez, William; Campbell, Todd – Science Teacher, 2015
As the ethnic and racial diversity in U.S. classrooms continues to grow, myths about the education of English Language Learners (ELLs) persist, while many teachers feel ill-prepared to meet these students' academic needs. This article focuses on myths shared by in-service science teachers enrolled in a master's program at the University of Texas…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Science Teachers
Campbell, Todd; Neilson, Drew; Oh, Phil Seok – Science Teacher, 2013
Of the eight practices of science identified in "A Framework for K-12 Science Education" (NRC 2012), helping students develop and use models has been identified by many as an anchor (Schwarz and Passmore 2012; Windschitl 2012). In instruction, disciplinary core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and scientific practices can be meaningfully…
Descriptors: Physics, Models, Science Education, Science Instruction
Campbell, Todd; Melville, Wayne; Bartley, Anthony – Science Teacher, 2012
Teachers do not work in a vacuum. They are, in most cases, part of a science department in which teachers and the chairperson have important roles in science education reform. Current reform is shaped by national standards documents that emphasize the pedagogical and conceptual importance of best practices framed by constructivism and focused on…
Descriptors: National Standards, Science Education, Educational Change, Best Practices
Neilson, Drew; Campbell, Todd; Allred, Benjamin – Science Teacher, 2010
Model-Based Inquiry (MBI) is an emergent instructional strategy that is gaining acceptance among science educators. This approach to learning realistically mirrors the work of scientists, who develop and test hypotheses to construct more sophisticated understandings of the natural world. This article details how the authors collaboratively taught…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Physics, Science Instruction, Inquiry