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Attracting Dynamos

How Problem Based Science Opens Doors and Creates Opportunities

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Interplay of Creativity and Giftedness in Science

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As teachers of science across the United States implement revised state standards, and in many cases the Next Generation National Science Standards, in their classrooms, the nature of science teaching and learning has been slowly changing. In the most enlightened classrooms, students are offered opportunities to engage in open inquiry investigations including posing their own questions and testing their hypotheses, as well as collecting data and offering conclusions and explanations based on evidence.

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  1. School of Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University Newark, USA

    Mary Lightbody

  2. Westerville City Schools, USA

    Lisa Mary Huelskamp

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  1. Institute for Biomedical Philosophy, USA

    Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos

  2. University of West Florida, USA

    John L. Pecore

  3. Institute for Biomedical Philosophy, USA

    John L. Pecore

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Lightbody, M., Huelskamp, L.M. (2016). Attracting Dynamos. In: Demetrikopoulos, M.K., Pecore, J.L. (eds) Interplay of Creativity and Giftedness in Science. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-163-2_20

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