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Science Sampler: Making Connections Fun
Games are a great way to help students make meaningful connections between abstract science concepts and vocabulary. This article describes three games—Secrets, Connections, and Pairs of Opposites—that help students reinforce concepts, formulate ...
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Science Sampler: The Octet Rules-- A dating game for atoms
To develop student interest in the periodic table, try incorporating this simple, but fun, role-playing activity that follows a game-show format into your science curriculum. This play is used after students have learned the basic structure of atoms ...
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Radiation Therapist Robert Adams
Cancer encompasses over 125 diseases. In the United States alone, over 1 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Approximately 70 percent of the cancer patients will receive radiation therapy. The goal of radiation therapy is to eradi...
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SPF 30: Exposing Your Students to Science Inquiry
Students engaged in inquiry-based science are learning to solve problems, organize their own knowledge, and use higher levels of thinking. This unit begins with an exploration of the “fairness” of testing methodologies. Students devise their own ...
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By getting lost in geospatial technology, a group of high school students discovered how to help members of the community find their way around. This was the result of collaboration between the author (a retired science teacher) and the computer teac...
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Synthesizing Scientific Knowledge
Using the evolution of the universe as an organizing concept framework allows for a natural synthesis of all scientific knowledge. With this concept as a foundation, the author developed a curriculum that provides nonscience majors with a coherent sc...
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The Don River watershed is located within Canada’s most highly urbanized area—metropolitan Toronto. To help assess the ecological health of the Don, biology students investigated the main Don River tributaries using macroinvertebrates instead of ...
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To develop scientific literacy in today’s global era, it is important that students learn about interactions within the Earth’s systems worldwide. A unit exploring El Niño and La Niña—phenomena that can result in extreme weather events in loc...
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Each Tuesday during the fall of 2002, teams of high school students from three South Carolina countries conducted a four-hour polymer institute for their peers at the local public library. In less than two months, over 300 students visited the exhibi...
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After the Bell: Hazardous waste roundup
When most people think of hazardous waste, they generally think of materials used in construction, the defense industry, mining, manufacturing, and agriculture. Few people think of hazardous substances found in their homes. From flammable cleaning p...
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Introducing students to metacognition, or thinking about one’s thinking, allows them to discover the value of reflection. Courses related to thinking theory are often included in the curriculum for high-achieving students, but these methods can als...
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With the convenience of fast-food restaurants on almost every corner, many young people are consuming these foods too often. Therefore, a group of concerned high school students in Wichita, Kansas, studied ratios of omega-3 fatty acids to omega-6 fat...
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Career of the Month: An interview with hurricane researcher Christopher Landsea
Do you find yourself gazing at the sky, curious about the forces of nature? Meteorologists’ curiosity drives them to understand Earth’s atmospheric phenomena and how it affects Earth and the life on our planet. The phenomena include everything fr...
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In this month’s column, the following question is addressed: On very hot days when the Sun beats against the pavement, the light above the ground appears to waver and tremble. Is this the heat reacting with our eyes, or does intense heat actually a...
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Science Sampler: Growth Potential
Students will enjoy carrying out this exciting and challenging research project that combines science with computers and mathematics to investigate how polyacrylate animals change in size over time when placed in water and aqueous salt solutions. The...