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Erupting with Great Force: Performing Text to Enhance Reading Comprehension
Performing text in the form of choral reading, rap, reader’s theatre, and/or simulations offers students a powerful vehicle for understanding and recalling key concepts and significant details culled from textual materials. Creating a script, poem,...
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The Prepared Practitioner: Defining Science
In a recent Phi Delta Kappan article, Perry Zirkel (2007) described professors and superintendents as “… two groups … marching to the beat of different drummers.” The point is just as valid for professors and teachers. He went on to say, �...
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Tools of Engagement: Using Case Studies in Synchronous Distance-Learning Environments
Faced with the challenges of addressing a variety of student learning styles, academic levels, and demographics, incorporating innovative learning strategies, attaining higher-level thinking skills, and offering new courses with contemporary content,...
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Idea Bank: Clarifying Tropical Cyclone Activity in Centuries Past
In order to truly answer questions of hurricane frequency one must move past short-term human-documented meteorological records and find environmental proxies for determining historical hurricanes. Just recently, Miller et al. (2006) established such...
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Cell-Phone Use and Cancer: A Case Study Exploring the Scientific Method
Designed for an introductory nonmajors biology course, this case study presents students with a series of short news stories describing a scientific study of cell-phone use and its health effects. Students read the news stories and then the scientifi...
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President’s Message: Meeting the Needs of the New World Student
To succeed in the 21st century, students have to learn how to be creative problem solvers who can work in collaborative groups. These new-world students must have the ability to think critically, use technology efficiently, and communicate effectivel...
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Feel the Pulse of Earth Science!
Each year, the American Geological Institute (AGI) organizes Earth Science Week to help monitor and spread Earth science literacy. This year marks the 10th annual Earth Science Week, which is geared to promote better understanding of the geosciences ...
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Reading Into Science: Making It Meaningful
Helping students read science textbooks and other substantive material does not have to interrupt the flow of content delivery. A variety of strategies, both instructive and effective, are available to help students become more competent and independ...
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Through retelling, students can begin to attach sense and meaning to the sometimes complex concepts they encounter in science texts. Also, the shift from silent thinking to verbal expression causes the brain to consolidate and integrate new ideas. As...
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Science Shorts: Making a Case for Camouflage
What child doesn’t enjoy a good game of hide-and-seek? There is the challenge of finding the perfect hiding spot and, of course, the allure of the hunt. Though children get great pleasure from the game, many members of the animal kingdom are the re...
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A message from the NSTA President: Meeting the Needs of the New World Student (September 2007)
To succeed in the 21st century, students have to learn how to be creative problem solvers who can work in collaborative groups. These new-world students must have the ability to think critically, use technology efficiently, and communicate effectivel...
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Scope on Safety: Bloodborne pathogens—Be prepared, be protected
Malaria, Lyme disease, Epstein-Barr syndrome, meningitis, syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS—what do all of these diseases have in common? These belong to a group of over 100 microorganisms categorized as bloodborne pathogens. With the HIV epidem...
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Guest Editorial: Happy anniversary, traveling companion!
Fifty years ago, on Friday, October 4, 1957, a 184-pound, silver-colored, metal ball caused an event that would change the world forever and reshape science education in the United States for decades to come. That beach ball-sized object was the man-...
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Editor’s Roundtable: Share your passion for science
We are not only teachers of science content, processes, and attitudes, but also teachers of writing and reading. The articles in this month’s issue of Science Scope contain numerous strategies to improve student achievement and understanding in s...
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Methods and Strategies: Teaching About Animals
When asking about animals, it is hard to find a person who doesn’t recall a beloved pet or share that they’ve always loved dolphins, snakes, or ladybugs. A study of animals in an early childhood classroom, then, would seem an easy entry into scie...