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Cold Facts about Viruses

Learn more about the life cycle of a virus and simulate the spread of a cold throughout your classroom. This article features a mini-unit developed around a theme that every student can relate to—the common cold....

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Travel Without Leaving the Classroom

Create travel brochures that explore the flaura and fauna of different biomes to persuade travelers to pay a visit. In this project, students research and report on a particular biome. The final product is a magazine modeled after a travel magazine. ...

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Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism: Helping students avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism

Once a student has plagiarized successfully, they are likely to try it repeatedly and before long their enthusiasm to learn has been robbed. Today’s technology-savvy students are finding it easy to plagiarize papers using the Internet. The author s...

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Scope on the Skies: Winter viewing

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue gives information on the opportunities for observing our solar system during the winter months....

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Physics Careers Web Site: Expanding College Women’s Perceptions of Physicists’ Lives and Work

Twenty college women used a Physics Careers Web site that aligned profiles of the college’s physics alumnae with the curriculum of introductory physics during an experimental version of the course. Twenty-one college women took a control course tha...

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Computer Analogies

Computer science analogies can aid the understanding of gene expression, including the storage of genetic information on chromosomes and the fate of genes that are no longer used. Computer science analogies can also aid the understanding of species i...

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Commentary: Finding Purpose—Reflecting Upon Curriculum and Assessment

An opinion piece about how the purpose of teaching plays a sginificant role in how lessons are received and valued. The challenge for teachers is to critically reflect upon the purpose of their curriculum and assessments, and most importantly share t...

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Editor's Note - November/December 2002

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Rubric for Content Classification

Are teaching strategies such as collaborative learning, student-centered classrooms, and guided inquiry always appropriate? How do we decide what topics to teach? The Rubric for Content Classification is a taxonomy of material covered in a general sc...

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Not for Teachers Only

The author describes how she revised an environmental science workshop exploring the use of graphing tools and sensors at the last minute to meet the needs of elementary students, high school students, and adults. ...

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Rocket Flight

Launch rockets to test the effect of design modifications on flight characteristics. As a culminating activity to a unit on motion, students design, build, and launch model rockets....