High School Science Classroom

The Science Teacher

NSTA Connections

March 2013

The Ethanol Project

Health Wise: Unplug to Power Up

February 2013

Reading the Ice

Stromatolites

Health Wise: Look Better, Feel Better

January 2013

A Science That Saves Lives

Design Practices and Misconceptions

Health Wise: Curbing Texting While Driving

December 2012

Flying Into Inquiry

Citizen Science in Your Own Backyard

Project Citizen

Be Your Own Groundhog

November 2012

Make Your Own Phylogenetic Tree

Chemistry Cook-Off

It’s All in the Particle Size

Health Wise: Better Grades Through Sleeping?

October 2012

Complexity From Simplicity

All Things Being Equal

Scientific Discoveries the Year I Was Born

September 2012

A Virtual Tour of Plate Tectonics

Now You're Cooking

Summer 2012

Making the Argument

Current Research

April/May 2012

Las Rocas Nos Cuentan Su Historia [Rocks Tell Their Stories]

Hands-On Hydroponics

Taking the Leap

March 2012

Rock On!

What's Missing?

January 2012

Writing and Science Literacy

December 2011

It’s Your Fault!

Going Underground

Investigating Continental Margins

November 2011

The Science Fair: A New Look at an Old Tradition

October 2011

Science in the 21st Century: More Than Just the Facts

Secret in the Margins: Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment

September 2011

Adopt-a-Dino

What Students Really Want in Science Class

Avatar in the Science Classroom

Summer 2011

Hydrogel Beads: The New Slime Lab?

A Scientific World in a Grain of Sand

It’s Elemental!

Chromonoodles: Jump Into the Gene Pool

Simulating Science

April/May 2011

Fire and Ecological Disturbance

The Reasons for the Seasons

Science 2.0: Stop-Motion Mitosis

March 2011

Creating a College-Going Culture

February 2011

Antigenic Shift and Drift

Modeling Natural Selection

A Tale of Four Electrons

One Fish, Two Fish, Redfish, You Fish!

January 2011

The Affective Elements of Science Learning

How Much Carbon Is in the Forest?

Beyond Grading

December 2010

Wolves in the Wild

A Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels

The Hudson River Plume

Why Do Athletes Drink Sports Drinks?

November 2010

The Inquiry Matrix

Exploring Osmosis and Diffusion

Model-Based Inquiry

October 2010

Self-Regulated Learning

Idea Bank: Skyping Science

Juan’s Dilemma

September 2010

Supporting Right-Brained Thinking

What Microbe Are You?

Summer 2010

A Virtual Circuits Lab

Generate an Argument: An Instruction Model

April/May 2010

Students for Sustainable Energy

Talk Like a Scientist

Leaving Their Legacy

Idea Bank: Lunar “Space Weather” Action Center

March 2010

Who’s in the Zoo?

Community-Based Inquiry Lessons

Make Your Own Digital Thermometer!

February 2010

Investigating Aquatic Dead Zones

Meet Us Outside

January 2010

Writing Better Lab Reports

Laboratory Notebooks in the Science Classroom

November 2009

Argument-Driven Inquiry

Examining Student Work

October 2009

Hurricane Katrina: A Teachable Moment

Idea Bank: Earth Systems in Silence

September 2009

Shrinking Our Footprints

What Happens to Cemetery Headstones?

The Science Behind Nanosunscreens

Teaching With Crystal Structures

Summer 2009

Idea Bank: Start a Classroom Library!

Helping New Science Teachers

April 2009

The Big Sky Inside

Stories in Science

Idea Bank: Vector, Vector—That’s Our Cry!

February 2009

The Interdisciplinary Study of Biofuels

The Potential Da Vinci in All of Us

Rev Your Engines!

December 2008

The Art of Physics:

“Life” in Movies:

October 2008

The Quiet Skies Project:

Teaching the Anatomy of a Scientific Journal Article:

September 2008

Whole-Class Inquiry Assessment:

Enzyme Inquiry:

January 2008

Thinking Like an Ecologist:

December 2007

Recycled Insect Models:

October 2007

Nemotodes: Model Organisms in High School Biology:

September 2007

A Cooperative Classroom Investigation of Climate Change:

March 2007

Scientific Discovery for All:

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