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Tech Trek: Wordsmiths on the web

Based on authors Bob Tierney and John Dorroh's practical suggestions for promoting student writing and the learning of science, this column highlights a variety of websites that involve students in similar activities designed to help them become bett...

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Science 101: If an insect grows to human size, will it have superhuman strength?

If insects grew to gigantic proportions, could they take over the world with their super-strength? To find and understand the answer, you have to understand a bit of basic geometry and how it applies to all kinds of organisms of different sizes....

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Creating Deep Time Diaries: An English/Earth Science Unit for Middle School Students

Students love a good story. We all do. That's why incorporating literary fiction that parallels teaching goals and standards can be so effective. In the interdisciplinary, thematic six-week unit described here, the fictional book The Deep Time Diarie...

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Kinesthetic Writing, of Sorts

The ability to clearly communicate what was learned as the result of an experiment is a key component of science in general, not just science in the middle school classroom. The trick in the middle school classroom is teaching students how to write w...

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Teacher's Toolkit: Teaching for transferal

An area of cognitive science that may one day help connect neuroscience and education is the concept of transferal. Transferal refers to how the skills and knowledge learned in a classroom can be synthesized and taken into the real world. Of specific...

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Learning to Make Systematic Decisions

How do communities deal with the needs of a growing population? How do they manage limited resources like land, energy, and water? How do they balance the needs of humans against the needs of native ecosystems? The case-based, environmental science c...

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Tried and True: Write it, do it

Effective writing is a keystone in the process of developing scientific knowledge. Scientists must be able to successfully communicate their findings so colleagues can confirm the authenticity of their claims through the replication of experiments. S...

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Every Day Science Calendar: May 2006

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

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What's Bugging You?

"'Ooh, these things give me the willies, and I am not getting near them." "Wonder what those things are and what they eat?" Statements like these were heard amongst preservice students as they embarked on "bug" research. This article offers insight...

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Knowing When You Don't Know

This article describes an alternative way of testing--a performance assessment--that is different both in process and goals from typical tests, but closer to what teachers believe assessment should be. Teachers who have helped to create, refine, and ...

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Collaboration with Community Partners

Collaborations with community partners make problem-based learning experiences more authentic and exciting for students while ensuring that the experience is consistent with the community’s needs and interests. The authors describe a problem-based ...

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Editor's Corner: Community Collaboration

Science activities that take students outside the school walls can combine the best aspects of service to the community, problem-based learning, and lessons in good citizenship. Over the past half-decade, The Science Teacher (TST) has published more ...