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Editor's Corner: Your Voice Counts
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on how "your voice counts" in helping influence the future of science education....
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The Home Zone: Flying Together
Airplanes, like kites and other flying objects, are of great interest to elementary children. Like the Wright brothers and countless other aviation pioneers, children seem to enjoy the process of designing, making, and modifying airplanes. The follow...
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Science and nonscience majors work together in a remote field setting on authentic marine research projects supervised by faculty from multiple disciplines and institutions. In the process, they learn science by doing science, gain research and logis...
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Tried and True: Balloons and Newton's Third Law
This constructivist adaptation of the classic balloon-on-a-string exploration leads students to investigate Newton's third law: for every action force there is an equal and opposite reaction force. This hands-on, minds-on activity leads students to...
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Careers in Science: An interview with physical vapor deposition and coatings expert Patrick Sullivan
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month's feature, find out how Patrick Sullivan became involved in this particular science....
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Science Sampler: To heat or not to heat
As part of a lesson on heat transfer, middle school students design their own investigation of conduction, insulation, and convection....
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Commentary: Enthusiasm is Contagious
An opinion piece about students learning more when they are excited about the topic, and educators teaching better when they teach about something they are passionate about....
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Tech Trek: Science research on the Internet
Young students often get frustrated when trying to find useful information on the Internet for school purposes and end up jumping from one point of interest to another, keeping little focus on the task at hand. To help students achieve success in the...
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Did you know that whenever you take a walk in the rain, you have a close encounter with extraterrestrial material? Our atmosphere contains small, microscopic bits of matter called micrometeorites. When scientists study these tiny invaders, they use s...
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Concept mapping in the organic chemistry laboratory can supplant cookbook activities with higher cognitive exercises. The common thread of most organic lab experiments is the synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of a carbon compou...
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Making Science Accessible: Strategies to Meet the Needs of a Diverse Student Population
Despite the sincere interest of many teachers to address the varying educational needs of their students (Scruggs and Mastropieri 1994), the current emphasis on inclusion remains a source of frustration, misunderstanding, and distrust by some teacher...
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The importance of environmental influences outside of school has been the focus of numerous studies that support the home’s influence on science learning. Students who come from homes primed with experiences that parallel curriculum are able to imm...
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Issues in Science and Technology
In this course, students select a current issue in science and technology and then explore it in a scientific manner. They work in groups and individually to examine the history behind the science and technology that have led to the issue and conside...
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A teacher describes how developing a structured, focused, and fun curriculum on rocks and minerals for learning-disabled students transformed her initial reluctance about Earth science into enthusiasm. Students observed, described, and sorted rocks a...
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Field Trip Preparation: Increasing student knowledge about matter and energy before a field trip
When student interest is waning toward the end of the school year a class field trip will catch their attention. In this article, activities and discussion about matter and energy prepare students for a more rewarding field trip....