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Beyond the Textbook

Are your science textbooks still including the prototype for the space shuttle, Enterprise? If so, follow the authors’ favorite ways of incorporating different media into the classroom provided in this article. Cartoons, videos, DVDs, newspapers, a...

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Countering Gender Bias in the Media

This inquiry-based activity raises student awareness of the inequity that exists in the way the media portrays the contributions of men and women. Students look at a variety of images of men and women engaged in different actitivities, and then make ...

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Libros de Ciencias en Espanol

Spanish-speaking young readers are eager to explore and understand the world. This selection of well written trade books in Spanish will satisfy young Spanish speakers' quest for knowledge....

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Racing into Physics: Using creativity and physics to design race cars

Conceptual physics emphasizes analysis and analytical thinking skills. This article features an "Edible Race Cars" lab where students design, construct, and race their cars to learn about the concepts of aerodynamics, friction, acceleration, and spee...

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Editor's Corner: Have You Hugged Your Student Teacher Today?

The Science Teacher’s editor shares helpful hints for science teachers who have "student teachers" in their classroom....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12: Books Published in 2001

The books that appear in this annotated bibliography were selected as outstanding science trade books published in 2001. They were selected by members of a book review panel appointed by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and assembled ...

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The Diminishing Apple

Upper elementary students cut apples to explore the Earth. The goal of the activity is to teach children about the relatively small proportions of actual drinkable water, habitable land, and productive areas on the Earth....

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Packing Peanut Properties

Students work with various types of packing peanuts to investigate states of matter and chemical and physical changes. One of the activities involves making slime. The activities can easily be modified for students with learning disabilities....

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"Clued In" to Their Environment

To help students become better acquainted with Florida’s natural environment, an environmental outreach program director developed an activity in which students would use a large canvas floor map of their state to learn about their environment as t...

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In-service Inquiry: A professional development workshop helps in-service teachers bring inquiry-based learning to their classrooms

Developing science process skills and participating in inquiry-based activities help students gain the foundation for job skills outside of school. Overall, this workshop was highly successful, and in-service teachers found that activities, especiall...

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Commentary: Discovering Relationships

Science may indeed be built upon facts but without an understanding of how things are interconnected, students will never get the "big picture." In this article students study integrated science by focusing on discovering and understanding relationsh...

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What Motivates Students in the Lab?

Four types of motivational methods were examined in this study: quizzes, scheduled presentations, unscheduled presentations, and a control. The quiz group showed the most significant and positive change. Because students’ grades were affected by th...