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Direct linkReading Teacher, 2012
The "Toolbox" column features content adapted from ReadWriteThink.org lesson plans and provides practical tools for classroom teachers. This issue's column features a lesson plan adapted from "Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel" by Lisa Storm Fink and "Bio-graph: Graphing Life Events" by Susan Spangler. Students retell biographic events…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biographies, Relevance (Education)
Fencl, Heidi S. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2010
Students in a general education science course made significant gains in scientific reasoning skills when they were taught using carefully designed hands-on activities and writing assignments. The activities required students to make use of scientific skills such as graphing, predicting outcomes under changing conditions, or designing experiments,…
Descriptors: College Students, General Education, Science Curriculum, Thinking Skills
