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Learning Together: Understanding and appreciating students' cultural backgrounds
Understanding and appreciating students’ cultural backgrounds facilitate learning in a Department of Defense (DoD) science classroom. Diversity in the science classroom is both a challenge and an opportunity—a challenge to meet the needs of these...
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Commentary: Science for All—Can "No Child Left Behind" Make a Difference?
For student achievement in the sciences to increase, the equity and excellence principle in science teaching and learning must be addressed. One possible solution may be the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. But can it make a difference in Science fo...
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The material in the authors’ general chemistry curriculum has been rearranged into a sequence thought to be more logical to students than the traditional sequence. This fresh approach does not radically change course content but rather produces a s...
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EXPLORE!, an after-school program, helps inner-city high school students understand ecological concepts. The program builds on students' school experiences and engages students with quality science activities and student development workshops. Studen...
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Research indicates that interdisciplinary instructional strategies help students make meaningful connections among various subjects through asking questions, making predictions, and thinking critically (Borich 2000). For this purpose, trees are an ea...
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Using GLOBE's Plant Phenology to Monitor the Growing Season
Has the growing season in North America increased by eight days? Is it still increasing? Middle-school students can help sleuth the answer with the Global Learning and Observations To Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) phenology data collected at many s...
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Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating an Interactive Genetic Drift Exercise
The exercise presented here is a hands-on demonstration of the phenomenon of genetic drift in populations. In particular, it reinforces the random nature of drift and demonstrates the effect that population size can have on the mean frequency of an a...
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Scope on the Skies: Celestial grid system
The “coordinate system” in the sky is essentially an extension of the Earth’s surface-based system of latitude and longitude. There are celestial poles and a celestial equator and, just like parallels of latitude on Earth, objects are measured ...
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It often seems to rain endlessly in spring. Although rainy days are a nuisance, they are actually vitally important to all living things. Rain showers are part of the continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and the atmosphere that is c...
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This article describes how interdisciplinary, thematic lessons about plants, animals, and the environment were introduced with children’s literature. First-grade students created a display of the African baobab tree and its inhabitants, focusing on...