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American Modeling Teachers Association – Overview on the NExt Generation science standards
American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) Modeling Instruction has been under development since 1990 guided by David Hestenes (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Arizona State University). The method aims to address many of the limitations of more traditional methods e.g. lecture-demonstration method, the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. The…
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The Crucible: A place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or political forces. The National Academy Press, USA published A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts and Core ideas (National Research Council, NRC 2012) in response to the low uptake of Science, Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) within…
