His goal is to help NSTA better serve its members—"I call them classroom teachers of science rather than science teachers because not all of them have a background in the subject"—and allow them to become more effective educators.
These videocases include classroom video of science teaching that shows the STeLLA strategies in action, video of student interviews about the science content before and after an instructional sequence of lessons, and written student work on pre- and posttests.
To accommodate the current enrollment of 3,400, the district recently completed a middle-school addition, consisting of classrooms, a new cafeteria and a performing arts center, and a high school addition of science classrooms, a cafeteria, a new gymnasium and two synthetic turf fields.
By scientific custom, if the latest discovery is confirmed elsewhere, the element will receive an official name and take its place in the periodic table of the elements, the checkerboard that begins with hydrogen, helium and lithium and hangs on the walls of science classrooms and research labs the world over.
Some pointed out that students' perceptions of science classrooms as constructivists are correlated positively to student interest (Aldridge et al. 2000).
In classroom practice, critical aspects of science learning tend to be set aside (Apedoe and Schunn 2013) as students focus on aesthetic features or on building and construction as opposed to experimentation, analysis, and justification of design decisions.
The end result is what Neko describes as "a combination of science classroom, hunting lodge and Art Nouveau battleship".
After all, it's the science classrooms of my youth that somehow nudged me toward a career as a molecular biologist.
This sample was comprised of undergraduate and graduate students who responded to study advertisements placed in health science classrooms of a large research university.
More studies are needed to understand transnational students' lived experiences of science learning, classroom participation, and identity construction.
