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Gyotaku—The Japanese art of fish printing—evolved in Japan more than one hundred years ago as a means for fishermen to record and document the size of their catches. Today, fish printing provides an excellent classroom activity to introduce the t...
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Forces at Work: The Top 5 Reasons for Belonging to a Professional Organization
Although we all interact within our classrooms and with our students all of the time, we also need the dynamic of peer interaction. This article describes the benefits of participating in a professional organization for science teachers, whether it b...
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As educators, we must be willing to reinvent our worlds as we learn new things; to re-examine our conceptions as we encounter new views; and to re-evaluate our own subjective interactions with the new material. As part of a pilot Earthwatch-Conservat...
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“If I ever get as burnt out as Mr. Jones down the hall,” commented a teacher I admire to a group of us novices, someone please tell me, and I will get out of teaching.” To avoid faring like “Mr. Jones,” read the following ideas to maintain ...
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The Seven Cs strategy described in this article is a small but very practical start to addressing the needs of students. The practices are divided into seven categories: community, curriculum, constructivist connections, confidence, competence, compu...
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Science of the Maya: Teaching ethnoscience in the classroom
Ethnoscience is empirical knowledge of the world held by indigenous people, reflecting their thought processes, values, concepts, and experiences. Drawing on the work of Heinberg (1994), five premises may be identified in Mayan ethnoscience: (1) ever...
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Idea Bank: Tips and techniques for creative teaching
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, learn about the periodic table card trick using a half-deck of cards, fun and games science, and integrating technology....
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Inclusive Classrooms: Multicultural look at the National Science Education Standards
Five Standards-based strategies for successful inclusion of special-needs students in the secondary science classroom are described in this article. Use a multisensory approach; encourage collaboration among students; provide specific expectations an...
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A teachable moment presented itself when a fallen bird was discovered in the snowy woods of Alaska by a couple of kindergarten students. As a result of this experience, the children had grown in their abilities to take part in a group, to actively li...
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A New Way of Looking at the World
The Global 200 represents a new science-based approach to setting priorities for conservation. At its core is a simple concept: If we conserve the broadest variety of the world’s habitats, we can conserve the broadest variety of the world’s speci...
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Understanding the Elements: The physics and symmetry of the periodic table of the elements
The Periodic Table of the Elements, or the Mendeleev Chart, is the starting point for chemistry and critical for learning physics as well. This article is an effort to explain, from fundamentals, how the periodic table became the way it is, and in do...
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Analyzing Scientific Literature Using a Jigsaw Group Activity
After gathering into groups to read papers with different viewpoints on a scientific topic, students form into new groups to share the diverse viewpoints expressed by the scientist-authors of their papers. This modified jigsaw activity encourages stu...
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The Learning-Style Teaching Model
The recent surge of interest in science education reform is welcome news for teachers who are eager to engage students in active science learning. However, along with these positive steps in science education reform come increasing pressure to improv...
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When playing outside during recess, a group of first-grade students noticed a lizard in the grass. They observed it for a while but it was very hard to see. This experience led the author to conduct a series of activities to teach her students the im...
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From Petroleum to Tomatoes: An integrated approach to educating scientifically literate students
While tomatoes grow abundantly in Israel, it is necessary to control the climate in which they are grown. This article deals with the issue of maintaining suitable growing conditions for tomatoes in Israel. Learning this integrated module, students d...