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Full Application of the Scientific Method in an Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory: A Reality-Based Approach to Experiential Student-Directed Instruction

Classroom experiments are often designed for convenience, ignoring fundamental scientific processes. Even “hands-on” experiences seldom allow the student to define the problem or design the experiment. The example outlined here incorporates the e...

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Scope on the Skies: The sky is falling

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. In this issue, learn about the special events occurring in the months of November and December....

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Making Environmentally Friendly Cleaners

The emphasis on science education involves students "doing science" with hands-on and minds-on activities. In this article, students do science by making, testing, and comparing the effectiveness, cost efficiency, and safety of environmentally friend...

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Teaching Teachers: Day of Science

"Day of Science" provided students an opportunity to sample various hands-on activities and also provided superb learning and practice opportunities for visiting preservice teachers. This article offers information on how the project came about and h...

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Teaching with Dewey on My Shoulder: John Dewey's ideas about interaction and continuity contribute to the teaching and learning of science

When John Dewey’s name appears somewhere, many people imagine a librarian inventing an organizing system for shelving library books, but this is a different Dewey. Here the author is talking about John Dewey (1859–1952), the educator whose ideas ...