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Bodzin, Alec; Anastasio, David; Sahagian, Dork; Henry, Jill Burrows – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
A curriculum-linked professional development approach designed to support middle level science teachers' understandings about tectonics and geospatial pedagogical content knowledge was developed. This approach takes into account limited face-to-face professional development time and instead provides pedagogical support within the design of a…
Descriptors: Investigations, Faculty Development, Plate Tectonics, Adoption (Ideas)
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Dolphin, Glenn – Science & Education, 2009
Current high school Earth Science curricula and textbooks organize scientific content into isolated "units" of knowledge. Within this structure, content is taught, but in the absence of the context of fundamental understandings or the process of how the science was actually done to reach the conclusions. These are two key facets of scientific…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Plate Tectonics, Scientific Literacy, Grade 9