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Design Challenges Are "ELL-ementary"

Engineering activities encourage English Language Learners to express understanding through language and actions. This article describes one school’s experience with the Museum of Science (Boston) program Engineering is Elementary and provides a mo...

Journal Article

Building Science Process Skills

A well-designed and executed field trip experience serves not only to enrich and supplement course content, but also creates opportunities to build basic science process skills. This article describes an onsite trip to the Bronx Zoo that allowed coll...

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Scope on the Skies: Location, location, location

While traveling from home to distant locations, it is easy to feel both a sense of unfamiliarity as well as familiarity with the change in location, especially when considering the view of day and night skies. The position of celestial objects like t...

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Society for College Science Teachers: What Currency Should We Use?

A colleague's favorite question when the issue of evaluationg teaching arises is to ask, "What's the currency?" In this article, we discover the various quandries involved in quantifying quality teaching. ...

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Editorial: So, Where's the Guy with the Cape?

In this section the new editor of the Journal of College Science Teaching, Ann Cutler introduces herself and dispels some of the myths about being an editor. She offers insight into her life as a prodigal academics' daughter and offers her own perso...

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Science Sampler: Fired up about science

Turn the "wow" factor into the "how" factor with this exciting activity that reinforces or introduces the skills of observing and inferring with the use of flash paper and candles. The magic of this lesson is that the flash of combustion ignites inqu...

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Idea Bank: A Sense of Place--GPS and the Biology Field Trip

In this month's Idea Bank column, a high school biology teacher describes an inquiry-based, high-tech scavenger hunt based on a hybrid form of geocaching that he developed called "BioCache," where students explore the wonders of nature and biology us...

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Science Sampler: Developing the scientist in your students

Develop the budding scientist within your students by weaving this hands-on, exciting project into your science curriculum. This inquiry-based project allows students to design, carry out, annalyze, and communicate their findings to their peers while...

Book Chapter

Building on the Natural Wonder Inherent in Us All

The Gladbrook-Reinbeck School District is located in Iowa, a state of just over three million people. The rich farmland that surrounds the district produces corn, beans, cattle, swine, and proud hardworking people. Naturally, many of the businesses ...