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Point of View: Civic Engagement in the Science Classroom

Science educators are well-positioned to incorporate civic engagement into the classroom by the natural suitability of the subject matter. There are many ways that we may engage students in community matters to encourage civic involvement and broaden...

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Idea Bank: School Greenhouse Design Tips

Growing plants in a controlled environment such as a greenhouse can be a wonderful enhancement to any science program. Thoughtful planning, proper design, and faculty advocates who support the greenhouse as an important asset to their curriculums are...

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Ask the Experts—November 2006

The following questions are addressed in this month’s Ask the Experts column: “If energy is conserved and we begin to store “renewable” energy sources such as wind and solar energy, what happens to our environment as a result of this “missi...

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Scope on the Skies: Eclipse cycles

The Moon's orbit around the Sun with the Earth brings it into position twice each month for an eclipse at new Moon and at full Moon. However, we do not have an eclipse pair each month, nor do we have an eclipse every two weeks. In this issue of Scope...

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Get a Grip! A Middle School Engineering Challenge

Investigating the field of engineering offers the opportunity for interdisciplinary, hands-on, inquiry-based units that integrate real-world applications; yet, many K-12 students are not exposed to engineering until they enter college. Get a Grip! is...

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Every Day Science Calendar: November 2006

This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer. ...

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Editor's Note: Reading Strategies for Science

In recent years, the increased attention to standards and achievement in reading has pushed the pendulum back towards incorporating reading within science content knowledge. Teachers are looking for ways to integrate reading and science, while also ...

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Perspectives: The Synergy of Science and Reading

Elementary teachers today are faced with a lot of pressure to focus their efforts on teaching reading. Often this means that other disciplines, such as science, are squeezed in or (worse) left completely. Is it possible that teaching science can ac...

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Game Time!

Sharks and fishes is both a classic playground game and a lighthearted model to introduce second- to fourth-grade students to the concept of predation, or the relationships between a predator and its prey. This game has been incorporated in a learni...

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Becoming Environmentally Literate Citizens

The RAFT technique (Santa 1988) is a writing strategy that helps students understand their Role as a writer, the Audience they will address, various Formats for writing, and the expected Topic or content. This article describes how students can use t...

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Teacher's Toolkit: No Child Left Behind -- What does this mean to middle school science teachers?

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is the historic education reform effort that President Bush proposed his first week in office, which Congress passed into law on January 8, 2002. NCLB reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act...

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Editor’s Corner: Problem-Based Learning

Problem-based learning (PBL) is finding a place in more and more secondary school science programs as teachers discover its power to engage students and develop critical-thinking skills. In the best PBL scenarios, constructivist learning is driven by...

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Science Sampler: The science of Star Wars -- Integrating technology and the Benchmarks for Science Literacy

Star Wars: The name alone implies action, adventure, the vastness of space, alien creatures, and of course, who can forget light sabers? Since the Star Wars saga has entertained millions of people around the world for years, the author decided to...

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Editor's Corner: Digital Frontiers

In 1960, JFK's rallying cry was "We stand at the edge of a New Frontier--the frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams." Our newest frontier is a digital one. It has changed the way we work, the way we shop, the way we communicate, and the way we get ...

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Hot Off the Press

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a peer-reviewed environmental health research journal (published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health,) provides the EHP Student Edition for ...