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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...