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Creative Writing and the Water Cycle

Creative writing provides one strategy for helping students combine their powers of imagination with their arsenal of knowledge. Teachers also can use creative writing exercises to assess student understanding of science content. Use the story, “Th...

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Issues in Sociobiology: The nature vs. nurture debate

The implications of recent advances in genetic science have been called “America’s next ethical war.” Teachers should be prepared to discuss the controversial and sensitive dimensions of these topics because citizens will be faced with hard dec...

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Exploring the Evolution of Plate Tectonics

Students often view science, especially Earth science, as being “set in stone.” They don’t realize that scientific theories are continually being developed, refined, and discarded as new information is discovered. The American Geological Instit...

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Technology-Based Learning: Using water studies as the basis for an alternative teaching strategy

The Technology-Based Learning in School Science (tBLISS) project was developed with two purposes in mind—to investigate the feasibility of implementing a technology-based science curriculum with a small group of teachers and students and to examine...

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Atomic Poetry: Using poetry to teach Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus

Most students regard literature and science as two separate subjects with no obvious connections to one another. This interdisciplinary, cross-curricular approach integrates the two to teach physical science students about atomic theory through Rober...