The Language of Science Education: An Expanded Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts in Science Teaching and Learning -- PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS -- SUGGESTED REFERENCE FORMAT -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- "21st-Century Skills" -- Academic Language in Science -- Action Research -- Advance Organizers -- Alphabet Soup Science Curriculum Projects -- Analogies in Science Teaching -- Argumentation in Science Teaching -- The Atlas of Science Literacy -- Authentic Science Learning Contexts -- Benchmarks in Science Teaching -- Benchmarks for Science Literacy -- Blended Science Instruction -- Intradisciplinarity -- Integrated Science -- Unified Science -- Coordinated Science -- Interdisciplinary Science -- Classroom Discourse -- Cognitive Dissonance -- The Common Core Standards -- Computer Simulations -- Concept Map -- Conceptual Profile -- Constructivism -- Constructivism as Learning Theory -- Conceptual Change Teaching -- Radical Constructivism -- Constructivist Teaching Practices -- Construction of Scientific Knowledge -- Context-based Science Education (CBSE) -- Controversial Science Issues -- Critical Thinking -- Crosscutting Concepts -- Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) -- Curriculum -- Deduction -- Diagnostic Assessments -- Didactic Instruction -- Differentiation -- Discovery Learning (Teaching) -- Discrepant Events (Puzzling Phenomena) -- Disciplinary Core Ideas -- Environmental Education (EE) -- Ethics in Science -- Experiential Learning -- Framework for K-12 Science Education -- Frameworks (General Definition) -- Formative Assessment -- Globalization of Science Education -- Hands-on Science -- Hypothesis -- Prediction -- Trial Theory or Explanatory Hypothesis -- Trial Law or Generalizing Hypothesis -- Hypothetico-Deduction -- Inclusive Science Education -- Induction -- Inferences.

Informal (Free Choice) Science Learning -- Inquiry Instruction -- Structured, Guided and Open (Authentic) Inquiry -- Benefits of Inquiry -- Limitations of Inquiry -- Laboratory and Science Teaching -- Laboratory Level and Student Decision Making -- "Dry" Laboratory -- "Wet" Laboratory -- Virtual Science Laboratories -- "Cookbook" Laboratory -- Law (Scientific Law or Principle) -- Learning Cycle -- Learning Progression -- Meaning Making and Science Learning -- Metacognition -- Micro-computer Based Laboratory -- Misconceptions -- The National Science Education Standards (NSES) -- Nature of Science (NOS) -- Science Shares Common Tools and Products -- Science has Important Human Elements -- Scientific Knowledge has Limits -- Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) -- Outdoor Science Education -- Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) -- Pedagogical Practices in Science Teaching -- Place-based Learning -- Prior Knowledge -- Probes and Probeware -- Problem Based Learning -- Problem Solving -- Process Orientated Guided Instruction (POGIL) -- Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) -- Project 2061 -- Project-based Instruction -- Questioning Strategies -- Reasoning -- Scaffolding -- Science and Engineering Practices -- Science Education -- Science Fairs, Exhibitions, and Research Competitions -- Science Notebooks -- Science Process Skills -- Science, Technology, and Society (S/T/S) -- Scientific Discourse (Rhetoric of Science) -- Scientific Literacy -- Scientific Method (Scientific Methodology) -- Scientific Model (Modeling) -- Scientific Openness -- Openness and Data -- Openness and Publication -- Scientific Thinking Skills -- Scientific Writing Heuristic (SWH) -- Situated Learning -- Social Constructivism -- Socio-scientific Issue-based Instruction -- Standards (Academic Standards) in Science Teaching.

STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics -- Summative Assessments -- Teaching for Conceptual Understanding -- Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) -- Theory in Science -- Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) -- Urban Science Education -- Virtual Learning Environment.