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Teach your students the dangers of unsafe lab behavior without scaring them or boring them through this lab safety module.This investigative case is part of a larger program through Emory University and metro Atlanta public schools where graduate stu...
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Methods and Strategies: Using Models Effectively
Models are crucial to science teaching and learning, yet they can create unforeseen and overlooked challenges for students and teachers. This article guides students through age-appropriate, critical analyses of instructional models....
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"Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was the theme song for kindergarten through second-grade students at Ashland City Primary in Ashland, Tennessee who participated in Journey North, a free, online educational program that enables sudents to track the bloomi...
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Guest Editorial: You may be the only scientist your students will ever know
All teachers know that young students have a remarkable ability to ponder questons and put them in a context that is understandable to them. Unfortunately, in too many classrooms, students don't get the opportunity to watch, wonder, or ask questions...
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Guest Editorial: You may be the only scientist your students will ever know
Unfortunately, in too many classrooms nationwide, thousands of students don't get the opportunity to watch, wonder, or ask questions about the world around them. This month's Guest Editorial discusses the struggle to teach science in K-12 classrooms....
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RAISE: Using Geospatial Technology in the Public School
The Rural Alliance for Improving Science Education (RAISE) partners Oklahoma State University with three public school districts in Oklahoma, enabling Oklahoma State University science graduate students to serve as resources in developing and teachin...
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Books Published in 2004)
The annual list of Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 is selected by a committee of NSTA members. The selected titles on this list were all published in 2004....
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Curriculum Integration: Preparing Prospective Teachers
This article describes a science methods course that prepares preservice teachers to integrate a curriculum around thematic units. The project enables students to pull together standards, specific content, teaching strategies, learning activities, a...
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The Golden Age of Islam and Science Teaching
The National Science Education Standards recognize that students could greatly benefit from learning the relationship of science to mathematics and to technology. Helping teachers, preservice teachers, and students develop a sense of the nature of sc...
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Learning to Teach: The Role of Evidence
Prospective science teachers should be taught how to base their planning and instructional decisions on the systematic analysis of evidence of student understanding. We describe three investigations that teach future secondary school science teachers...
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“No Child Left Behind,” or are they...? According to recent research, pregnant teenagers and young parents often do not receive the quality of education available to other students. Most schools do not have a separate facility or program that dea...
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Science 101: How are oil spills treated?
No two oil spills are the same. Logically, oil spills are a nightmare because they are unanticipated and uncontrolled events. Oil spills present a threat to wildlife and coastal resources, concerning everyone from local residents to state environme...