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Isopod Inquiry: Students learn experimental design by studying sowbug food preferences
For any science teacher who has ever used slugs or snails for behavioral studies, sowbugs—also known as isopods or pillbugs—are a welcome alternative. This inquiry-based activity is an investigation of sowbugs' preferred food sources. In this inv...
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Commentary: The Changing Nature of Science
An opinion piece about the current science education reform....
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Teaching to the Power of 10: Microscopic & macroscopic scaling activties for the classroom
Traditional scaling activities put students through the paces of the exercise but do not provide relevant associations with the idea of size and how greatly size varies in our universe. The traditional scaling was rethought and these activities were ...
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STS Simulations: Engaging students with issues-based scenarios
Science-Technology-Society (STS) issues-based simulations present science education in an appropriate context for all students. In STS issues-based simulations, students are presented with a controversial issue to investigate from a variety of perspe...
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Editor's Corner: Kool Konversions
The Science Teacher’s editor introduces a wonderful teaching tool she found at the grocery store—Kool-Aid packages....
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Scientists commonly use transects as a method of gathering information about a particular area, including studying the distribution of organisms across an area or seeing transitional changes between habitats. Transecting involves observing an area, c...
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Recycle Used Oil on America Recycles Day
Motor oil doesn’t wear out—it just gets dirty. Students and the general public may not know that used oil can be reused or recycled. The fact is, used oil can be re-fined, blended with additives, and used again. When you consider that 1.4 billion...
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In this article two teachers, one from the science department and one from the industrial technology department, paired up in a newly developed course called "Science and Technology." In the course students turned an old volkswagen beetle into an ele...
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The Envirobox Project involved a total of six classes (first- through fifth-grades) from around the United States sending each other a shoebox containing six to ten environmental samples. The boxes contained items such as pressed leaves and flowers, ...
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Good Science Begins With Good Questions
Students in a large, active-learning, freshman biology class learned to ask better questions with the aid of a new taxonomy for student questions. The taxonomy provided a tool that helped them (and the instructors) to evaluate their questions and pro...
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Commentary: Mass and Weight—Explaining the Difference
An opinion piece about two of the most commonly confused words in science class—mass and weight....