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Establish a breeding group of “roly polys” and examine the stimuli that affect their behavior....
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Incorporating a Farm Into Our Science Curriculum: An Innovative Twist
Foster a connection between students and the outdoors by adopting a farm-based science curriculum....
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Teacher's Toolkit: Interactive word walls: Visual Scaffolds That Transform Vocabulary Instruction
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes how middle school teachers can use interactive word walls to increase their students’ ability to learn and effectively use the langu...
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Integrating Technology: Innovative Youth: An Engineering and Literacy Integrated Approach
This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes activities that help students develop literacy and engineering skills while fostering an identity as individuals who are...
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From the Editor's Desk: Innovative Teaching = Learning
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Citizen Science: Summer Night Sky Citizen Science With Globe at Night
This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. The Globe at Night international citizen science project aims to increase awareness of the growing global is...
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Disequilibrium: How Heat Affects the Density of Water
This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event illustrates what happens when a container filled with warmer, less dense water is placed on top of a container filled with denser, cooler water...
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Listserv Roundup: Four Effective Ways to Improve Laboratory Management
This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics.This month’s column focuses on laboratory-related advice from the NSTA listservs....
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Science for All: Kinesthetic Learning in Science
This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's topic describes creating a classroom environment where students can be in motion. The authors include their favorite ways to get students moving while they learn....
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Teacher to Teacher: Transitioning to Three-Dimensional Learning With Evidence Statements
This column provides practical advice from your peers. Incorporating three-dimensional learning in the classroom requires teachers to change how they present lessons and assessments to students. This article shows teachers how to use the Next Genera...
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Scope on the Skies: Vocabulary of the Skies
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month's issue provides a list of astronomical terms that students can apply to events that they can witness this summer....
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The authors reorganized sections of their nonmajors biology course using current issues in biology and society as a premise to promote coherence among course content and emphasize the relevance of biological concepts to everyday life. A key aspect o...
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The Windwalker Project: An Open-Ended Approach
Students in a beginning level undergraduate classical mechanics course engaged in collaborative inquiry through the Windwalker Project. The aim of this project was for students to create a free-standing movable structure as a way of testing and apply...
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It is envisaged that small-group exercises as part of a large-group session would facilitate not only group work exercises (a valuable employability skill), but also peer learning. In this article, such a strategy to facilitate the active engagement...
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Geoscience Videos and Their Role in Supporting Student Learning
A series of short (5 to 7 minutes long) geoscience videos were created to support student learning in a flipped class setting for an introductory geology class at North Carolina State University. This study sought to compare student learning about k...
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The authors created a Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program focused on improving student performance in high-risk STEM courses. Our PALs are modeled after the Peer-Led Team Learning program, which has been shown to provide long- and short-term benefit...
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To engage effectively with contemporary water-related challenges with scientific and social dimensions, students need to understand the properties of water and the nature of scientific processes and practices. However, students have difficulty in un...
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The authors compare student learning and perception data from astronomy, physics, and geology courses taught in a traditional classroom with individual desks to the same classes taught in a large auditorium....
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Collaborative activities in the area of science need to incorporate the co-critiquing of a flawed external source, with appropriate scaffolding to also benefit students with low self-regulation levels by mediating cognitive and metacognitive processe...
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Research and Teaching: A Comparison of Long-Term Knowledge Retention Between Two Teaching Approaches
The purpose of the research in this article was to test assumptions regarding the effectiveness of reform-based instructional approaches to facilitating knowledge retention in students. We conducted an experimental study of knowledge retention at a m...
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of identifiying first-generation college students and helping them become advocates for themselves....
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Few students enter community college science classrooms having experience with, or being proficient in, using evidence to explain scientific phenomena. Therefore, the authors used a claim-evidence-reasoning framework to scaffold students as they lear...
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Case Study: Mini-Case Studies: Small Infusions of Active Learning for Large-Lecture Courses
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue discusses how the author uses case studies as a method for engaging students in ...
Book Chapter
The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore the relationship between acceleration and velocity to determine ”How Does the Direction of Acceleration Affect the Velocity of an Object?�...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore ”What Is the Relationship Between the Mass of an Object and Its Acceleration During Free Fall?” The Teacher Notes provide the connection...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore projectile motion and determine ”How Do Changes to the Launch Angle, the Initial Velocity, and the Mass of a Projectile Affect Its Hang Ti...
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply what they know about the core idea of forces and motion to determine ”How Do the Direction and Rate of Rotation of a Spinning Surface Affect the Path of an Object Moving Across That Surface?” The T...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them determine ”What Is the Mathematical Relationship Among the Net Force Exerted on an Object, the Object’s Inertial Mass, and Its Acceleration?” ...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore ”How Does the Mass of the Counterweight Affect the Acceleration of a Pulley System?” The Teacher Notes provide the connections to standa...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore ”What Is the Mathematical Relationship Between the Angle of Incline and the Acceleration of an Object Down the Incline?” The Teacher Not...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them determine how different types of oils change the coefficient of kinetic friction between two metal plates to explain ”Why Are Some Lubricants Bet...
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Falling Objects and Air Resistance
The purpose of this lab is for students to apply what they know about the core idea of forces and motion to determine ”How Does the Surface Area of a Parachute Affect the Force Due to Air Resistance as an Object Falls Toward the Ground?” The Teac...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by giving them an opportunity to explore factors that affect the rotation of an object to determine ”How Do the Mass and the Distribution of Mass in an Object Af...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by giving them an opportunity to explore the nature of circular motion and determine ”How Does Changing the Angular Velocity of the Swinging Mass at the Top of a...
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply what they know about the core idea of forces and motion to determine ”How Can Someone Predict the Amount of Force Needed to Open a Bottle Cap?” The Teacher Notes provide the connections to standard...
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Simple Harmonic Motion and Pendulums
The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by giving them an opportunity to explore simple harmonic motion and the behavior of pendulums to determine ”What Variables Affect the Period of a Pendulum?” Th...
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Simple Harmonic Motion and Springs
The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore the simple harmonic motion and determine ”What Is the Mathematical Model of the Simple Harmonic Motion of a Mass Hanging From a Spring?”...
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Simple Harmonic Motion and Rubber Bands
The purpose of this lab is for students to apply what they know about the core idea of forces and motion to determine if a mass hanging from a rubber band obeys Hooke’s law, and, if so, ”Under What Conditions Do Rubber Bands Obey Hooke’s Law?�...
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Linear Momentum and Collisions
The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by giving them the opportunity to explore the conservation of momentum during a collision to determine ”When Two Objects Collide and Stick Together, How Do the I...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by giving students an opportunity to explore impulses and momentum to determine ”How Does Changing the Magnitude and Duration of a Force Acting on an Object Affe...