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Scope on the Skies: Beyond Earth’s Orbit
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses orbits and which planets can be seen in the sky right now....
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Science for All: Helping Students Succeed by Preteaching Content-Area Vocabulary
This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. In this article the authors discuss why teaching vocabulary is so important and explain how to identify key terms. They also introduce strategies that are effective for teaching vocabul...
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Teacher to Teacher: Tackling Misconceptions About Seasons
This column provides practical advice from your peers. The author uses data and computer simulations to clear up misconceptions because students can study several locations in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres over a complete year in one class p...
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The solar eclipse this August is an ideal opportunity to practice three-dimensional science learning....
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Using various models and perspectives to help students visualize the solar eclipse....
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12
Books selected by the National Science Teachers Association/Children’s Book Council Review Panel...
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Having students compare the effects of different energy sources on the environment....
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Making formative assessment more responsive to student needs....
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Editor's Corner: Standing in the Moon’s Shadow
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Commentary: Become a Solar Eclipse Outreach Agent
As the public becomes aware of the August 21 solar eclipse, science teachers and students can step up to explain the eclipse and help prepare communities to safely view it....
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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Global Collaborators
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards, which makes it possible for students to become global collaborators....
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The Green Room: How Climate Change Affects Our Diet
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses how climate change affects our food supply....
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Focus on Physics: Teaching Physics as the Rules of Nature
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue discusses the laws of nature....
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Career of the Month: Fire Protection Engineer
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Nancy Pearce's career path to becoming a fire protection engineer....
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Right to the Source: Torricelli’s Barometer
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses an engraving of the first mercury barometer designed by Evan Torricelli....
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Estimating a Missing Examination Score
Using exam score data from multiple offerings of two large courses at a public university, the authors compared the accuracy of four methods to estimate an exam score, including linear regression methods....
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Increases in student-centered pedagogy have been more prevalent in K–12 education than in collegiate undergraduate science education. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of using student-centered pedagogy advocated in K–12 educ...
By Debbie A. French and Andrea C. Burrows
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A Problem-Solving Framework to Assist Students and Teachers in STEM Courses
One of the most essential STEM problem-solving skills is the ability to monitor one’s own progress and understanding while solving a problem. Successful monitoring during the entire solution allows a solver to identify errors within a solution and ...
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Students Own Their Introductory Chemistry Experience: Becoming an Element for a Semester
Introductory science courses serve a population of students in the major as well as those students outside the discipline. In an effort to help this diverse population of students connect personally with the content of the course, the authors created...
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Paired Courses: A New Paradigm for College Teaching
Instead of flipping a conventional college course, the authors explore flipping part of a conventional course into a whole new course....
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In recent years, commissions and reports have called for laboratory courses that engage undergraduates in authentic research experiences. The authors present an iterative approach for developing course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs...
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This article describes how one biology department at a midsize university has integrated assignments into core and elective courses with the objective to enhance the development of science communication skills....
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A postexam review activity was implemented in an introductory biology course to help students learn from their mistakes and strengthen reasoning and self-regulatory skills. The goal of this study was to design and test a strategy to measure the effec...
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Introductory science, math, and engineering courses often have problems related to student engagement, achievement, and course completion. To begin examining these issues in greater depth, this pilot study compared student engagement, achievement, a...
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Point of View: Diversity in STEM: Doctor, Heal Thyself
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue calls on STEM professionals to take three simple steps toward diversifying the STEM workforce....
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Two-Year Community: Integrating Undergraduate Research at Two-Year Colleges
Because community colleges contain smaller class sizes, agile course structures, and faculty dedicated to best practice approaches, these institutions are inherently capable of developing more student research platforms. With the support of campus ad...
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Case Study: Formulating Questions That Address Student Misconceptions in a Case Study
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. The idea that misconceptions must be addressed to improve learning is helpful to remember when develo...
Book Chapter
In this lesson, students help a comic book publisher create the scenery and story lines that include real geologic formations in different locations on Earth. Key words and concepts covered are landforms, geologic forces, and plate tectonics. Crosscu...
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In this lesson, students help a comic book publisher develop scenes and images of landforms found below the surface of the ocean. Key words and concepts covered are landforms, geologic forces, and plate tectonics. Crosscutting concepts explored are p...
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In this lesson, students help a comic book publisher understand the path of a drop of water traveling through the water cycle. Key words and concepts covered are water cycle, erosion, gravity, heating, and cooling. Crosscutting concepts explored are ...
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In this lesson, a girl wonders how volcanic rocks and sedimentary rocks ended up in the same area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Key words and concepts covered are rock cycle, formation of rocks, plate tectonics, divergent margin, and rift zone....
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Lassen Volcanic National Park has several types of rocks in one location. It is an unusual mix of all three (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic). What does each rock type tell us about the area’s geologic history? Key words and concepts covered ...
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Southern California is affected by the San Andreas Fault. The geologic features and rock types along this fault tell of a history very different from the region just a short distance to the north. Two cousins try to learn more about how that part of ...
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In this lesson, a boy is worried that his new home in Alaska cannot possibly have warm weather in the summer. Key words and concepts covered are seasons and motion of Earth around the Sun. Crosscutting concepts explored are patterns, cause and effect...
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In this lesson, two siblings debate whether the water they drink has always been on Earth and has been used by other living things. Key words and concepts covered are water cycle. Crosscutting concepts explored are patterns, cause and effect, and ene...
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In this lesson, students in a class are invited to help report the weather on TV and need to learn about air masses and how they help predict the weather. Key words and concepts covered are air masses, weather, and weather forecasting. Crosscutting c...
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In this lesson, students examine scenes from the movie E.T. to see if the phases of the Moon match the time frame of the story. Key words and concepts covered are moon phases. Crosscutting concepts explored are patterns and systems and system models....
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In this lesson, students try to explain what happens in the solar eclipse, and why a person in one location can see a solar eclipse while a person in another place cannot. Key words and concepts covered are solar eclipse. Crosscutting concepts explor...
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In this lesson, two friends living across the country from each other see a lunar eclipse at the same time and wonder how it is possible. Key words and concepts covered are lunar eclipse. Crosscutting concepts explored are patterns, scale, proportion...