The Science Teacher (TST) is seeking manuscripts that describe new and creative ideas for the secondary science classroom. Manuscripts should provide worthwhile ideas and practical help for teachers as they relate to the themes listed below. TST also always encourages manuscripts outside of the listed themes (see “The Fine Print”).
Science, Sports, and Health
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2008
The science of sports and health can be applied in interesting ways throughout the high school science curriculum. Sport and health science naturally incorporate concepts from physics, biology, and chemistry in ways that can generate student interest and even potential future careers. If you have found interesting activities that connect science with sports or health, please share them with TST readers!
Research in the Science Classroom
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2008
This issue will focus on action research in high school classrooms and student scientific research. Do you have an action research project completed or ongoing with your students? Have your students conducted interesting science research themselves? Please share the results with us.
Project-Based Science
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008
Inquiry-based science projects can encourage creativity and develop problem-solving abilities. This issue will focus on interesting and successful new projects, as well as new twists to old favorites, both inside and outside science classroom walls.
Physical Science
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Understanding the relationships among the properties, changes, and structure of matter is a central theme in the high school science curriculum. Concepts of motion, forces, and energy are important in all the sciences, helping students understand everything from the transport of materials across cell membranes to the movement of planets and galaxies. TST is interested in manuscripts that describe classroom activities involving new and creative ideas in physical science.
General Topics
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Do you have an article idea in mind that does not fit with one of TST’s themes? Write about it and submit it for review! General articles, not targeted to a requested theme, are published in every issue. If you have written a manuscript on a secondary education topic, please submit it at any time.
Idea Banks
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
TST is always seeking Idea Banks—short articles of about 1,000 words. During your summer vacation, did an experience reignite your enthusiasm for science and teaching? Is your school involved in a successful partnership with the local community? Do you have an original, how-to lesson that you have developed? If you want to share an experience, activity, or classroom tip, but don’t think it will work as a feature-length article, consider submitting an Idea Bank!
Commentaries
Submission Deadline: Ongoing
Commentaries of approximately 750 words on any secondary education topic are accepted at any time. Do you have thoughts on science education that you would like to share with your peers? Write up a Commentary and submit it to TST for review.
The Fine Print
In addition to submitting articles specifically targeted to the focus of each issue, authors are always encouraged to submit original manuscripts, Idea Bank articles, or commentaries on any secondary science education topic at any time for further consideration by the peer-review panel and the field editor. Manuscripts should describe successful lessons implemented in secondary classrooms, as well as provide specific details for educators who might wish to use the activities with their own students. The manuscripts should include appropriate assessment tools and specifically reference the National Science Education Standards where appropriate. Examples of student work to illustrate results of a successful lesson are encouraged, as are figures, sidebars, and accompanying photos. Author Guidelines can be found online.