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RDLA130 Teaching Reading in Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 3rd-12th
- Hours:
- 30
Help students unravel the mysteries and complexities of scientific concepts by training them to approach science texts in new ways. Learn effective strategies to help your students arrange ideas, understand text organization, set goals for reading, make meaningful connections, and persevere through challenging materials.
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RDLA220 Teaching Writing in the Content Areas
- Subjects:
- Mathematics, Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 6th-12th
- Hours:
- 30
You can bring writing into your classroom in all content areas with a practical plan developed in this course. Covering the research basis for writing across the curriculum, the course will help you teach students effective writing processes, including finding the time to write. You'll learn sound techniques for evaluating writing skills and discover proven ways to promote writing to students.
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RDLA225 Teaching Writing in Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 6th-12th
- Hours:
- 30
Learn to assess your students' understanding of science concepts by integrating writing instruction into your curriculum. Help your students engage in persuasive writing tasks, and develop an instructional plan over the length of the course for using writing effectively in your classroom. Put your plan into action and gain insight from the experience.
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RDLA340 Teaching Reading in the Content Areas
- Subjects:
- Mathematics, Science, Reading/Language Arts
- Grades:
- 3rd-12th
- Hours:
- 30
You can master new strategies to address students' needs in various grade levels. From exploring environments that promote effective learning to examining the skills students need to read content material successfully, this course will introduce you to essential techniques that support more independent reading and learning.
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SCIE120 Scientific Inquiry and Field Work: Discovering with Technology for Grades 6-8
- Subjects:
- Science, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies
- Grades:
- 6th-8th
- Hours:
- 30
Keep your students engaged by incorporating current technology into your science curriculum. Visit Web sites that enable students to collect and analyze data using online equipment and learn high-tech strategies that allow them to record and analyze information, investigate the results, and share their findings. Then, design a unit plan for an ecosystem field trip.
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SCIE125 Fostering Cooperative Learning, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Elementary Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies
- Grades:
- 1st-4th
- Hours:
- 30
Learn to meet national science standards by helping students develop the skills necessary to analyze ideas, think critically, and communicate clearly. Create lessons and activities that support collaboration, inquiry, and critical thinking.
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SCIE130 Fostering Collaboration, Inquiry, and Critical Thinking in Middle School Science
- Subjects:
- Science, Instructional Technology, Instructional Strategies
- Grades:
- 5th-8th
- Hours:
- 30
Science can engage and encourage students to think critically and logically. In this course, you will learn to integrate technology into the classroom to encourage students to ask questions, collaborate with others, and explore and evaluate data. Discover software and Web activities designed to help your students organize and consolidate their thinking and analyze ideas clearly.
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SCIE500 Teaching Elementary Life Science - Special Collection: Teachers' Domain, produced by WGBH Boston
- Subjects:
- Science
- Grades:
- Kindergarten-4th
- Hours:
- 45
Enhance your understanding and teaching of life science. In addition to developing content knowledge, you will be introduced to the constructivist learning model, learn a range of effective teaching methodologies and experience a media-rich learning environment which you can use with your students.
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SCIE502 Science and the Living World - Special Collection: Teachers' Domain, produced by WGBH Boston
- Subjects:
- Science
- Grades:
- Kindergarten-4th
- Hours:
- 30
A topic immersion course on Teaching Elementary Life Science. Explore the essential question of how to use processes of scientific inquiry to learn and teach about the living world. Examine the characteristics common to all organisms and learn techniques to surface your students' prior knowledge and understanding.
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SCIE504 Plants and Animals - Special Collection: Teachers' Domain, produced by WGBH Boston
- Subjects:
- Science
- Grades:
- Kindergarten-4th
- Hours:
- 30
A topic immersion course on Teaching Elementary Life Science. Lead your students' examination of how the structures and functions of plants and animals help them meet their needs as living things. Explore strategies for the use of concept maps and effective uses of live plants and animals in the classroom to present plants as producers and animals as consumers.
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