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Scope on the Skies: Angles and Eclipses
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses types of angles and eclipses, and modeling planets....
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A more consistent—and fun—activity that explores enzyme reactions....
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Editor's Corner: Science Practice in the Post-Truth Era
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: Transforming Science Education With New Tech Standards
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the International Society for Technology in Education Standards for Students....
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Focus on Physics: When Our Round Earth Was First Measured
Building an understanding of physical principles. This month's issue discusses the methods Eratosthenes used to measure the roundness of Earth....
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The Green Room: When Climate Change Causes Extinction
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses the loss of habitat and food sources due to climate change....
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Health Wise: Should Your School Offer Grab-and-Go Breakfasts?
This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue explores the reasons to eat a good breakfast and what some schools are doing to provide breakf...
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Career of the Month: Ethnobotanist
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Karen Sherwood's career path to becoming a ethnobotanist....
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Right to the Source: Back to School With Primary Sources
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the "Measuring the Blizzard's Rage" photograph....
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Building Bridges Between Science Courses Using Honors Organic Chemistry Projects
Introductory undergraduate science courses are traditionally offered as distinct units without formalized student interaction between classes. To bridge science courses, the authors used three Honors Organic Chemistry projects paired with other scien...
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Using Photojournals to Develop Ecoliteracy in a Blended Environmental Science Course
Developing innovative tools for ensuring that students understand the ways in which science content connects to their lives, future careers, and global issues is becoming more dynamic as online, blended, and hybrid instructional models become more pr...
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Self-Directed Learning With Feedback
This article describes a weekly writing assignment named SelFeed (Self-Directed Learning with Feedback), in which students are asked to identify their own questions relevant to the lecture content and provide logical answers....
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Integrating Technology in Today’s Undergraduate Classrooms: A Look at Students’ Perspectives
The authors present the findings of a small-scale study of student opinions drawn from an anonymous and voluntary survey in an undergraduate science classroom. The survey questions focused on the use of basic tools in a college classroom. The tools i...
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This study involved a scientific research competency module taught to the first-year premedical student in a 6-year premedical–medical program at an overseas U.S. medical school....
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Research and Teaching: Teaching Students How to Check Their Work While Solving Problems in Genetics
An essential component skill of monitoring and reflection during problem solving is work checking, a process used by experts while solving problems to determine if their solution is achieving the goal. The results of work checking may reveal errors o...
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At the authors' public liberal arts institution, biology masters students are required to enroll in BIOL 5050: Teaching Techniques. Course topics include designing effective lectures, assessment, classroom management, diversity in the classroom, and ...
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Research and Teaching: Reenvisioning the Introductory Science Course as a Cognitive Apprenticeship
Introductory science courses play a critical role in the recruitment and retention of undergraduate science majors. In particular, first-year courses are opportunities to engage students in scientific practices and motivate them to consider scientif...
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of the insights that are gained through neuroscience research....
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Case Study: What Makes a Good Case, Revisited: The Survey Monkey Tells All
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the authors provide a more definitive answer to the “What Makes a Good Case...
eBook
Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why (e-book)
“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s snores at night, sounds are everywhere. That’s what an attentive boy discovers as he listens his way...
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Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why (e-book)
Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to his dad’s tale about taking in the deliciousness of a pastry shop, the woodsy smells of a lumberya...
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Learning to Read the Earth and Sky: Explorations Supporting the NGSS, Grades 6–12 (e-book)
Is it time to refresh the way you think about teaching Earth science? Learning to Read the Earth and Sky is the multifaceted resource you need to bring authentic science—and enthusiasm—into your classroom. It offers inspiration for reaching beyon...
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Look and See: I Wonder Why (e-book)
This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn just how much you can use your sense of sight. Toys and tools, birds and bugs, flowers and fish, and ...
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Next Time You See a Cloud (e-book)
Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science behind these beautiful displays. Author Emily Morgan answers...
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From Flower to Fruit will transform curious readers - children and adults - into budding botanists. The book draws you in with the twin charms of rich illustrations and an engaging narrative. But this is more than just a pretty storybook. It spar...
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Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings (e-book)
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!...
Interactive E-book
Different rocks have different mineral compositions and different textures. Observing and documenting these differences provide insight into a rock’s larger geologic context and natural setting. Observations of rocks can tell us about the processes...
Interactive E-book
The Gravity and Orbits Interactive E-book* investigates concepts related to Earth’s universal gravitation and how gravity affects the universe around us. All objects that have mass have a gravitational force and every object exerts a gravitational ...