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Science Adventures at the Local Museum
To promote science learning outside the traditional classroom and encourage preservice teachers to use hands-on science, a local university and museum partner to promote informal science education....
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Tech Trek: Personal digital assistants
The personal digital assistant (PDA) is rapidly becoming an essential classroom tool. This article provides an overview of some of the science related programs available to classroom teachers....
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What Does It Mean To Be Standards-Based? Examining Standards and initiatives in the classroom
The standards-based teacher is patient, working to create a classroom climate that supports a need to know and explain on the part of the students. This article features a brief history of the benchmarks and Standards and provides a checklist of crit...
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Project FLORA: Flora Love Our Revegetation Areas
A small school district in southwestern Texas comes together to protect its own backyard. In this project students collected native seed, built a greenhouse to propagate native plants from this seed, learned to identify disturbed areas within the par...
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Toying with Motion: Exploring Newton's laws of motion with student activities
Students are motivated to understand and apply Newton’s laws of motion by playing with toys. This activity allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the laws of motion and requires far more than just memorization. ...
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The Coast Guard Comes to Class
The United States Coast Guard offers many programs and resources without cost to teachers and their students. The author describes his visit to a sixth-grade classroom, where he demonstrates an oil spill and explains how pollution affects the marine ...
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Scope on the Skies: April's planetary line up
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. Sit back and enjoy the month of April as the five brightest planets are arranged over the western horizon at sunset....