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Abstract

As a cumulation of my studies and to satisfy the non-thesis option for my graduate program at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), I designed this Water Quality Unit to be used for 9th and 10th grade students. It uses both learning cycles and a constructivist approach to satisfy Dubuque Community School District and Iowa Core Curriculum Standards. Each learning cycle applies the 3-E approach [Explore, Explain and Extend]. The unit contains seven separate learning cycles and ends with a final project in which students analyze the runoff from their school's watershed for various pollutants to determine what steps can be taken to reduce this runoff. While many ideas from courses in the UNI science education graduate program were incorporated, several ideas from Teaching Learning Models and Developing Science Curriculum are highlighted and of special importance.

Year of Submission

2009

Degree Name

Master of Arts in Education

Department

Science Education Program

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Date Original

2009

Object Description

1 PDF file (iii, 49 pages)

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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