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Engineering Technology for the Digital World
Explain how 1s and 0s are used to create the digital world around us....
Journal Article
Test and refine student-constructed rockets to explore the practices of science and engineering outlined in the NGSS....
Journal Article
Editor's Roundtable: Saying Goodbye: An Editor's "Footprint" on Science Scope
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Teacher's Toolkit: The New Standard in Technology Education: 3-D Design Class
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue covers how three-dimensional printing is one way that you can involve your students in the design process while teaching them a completely new s...
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Tried and True: Falling in Style
This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. In this month’s issue the author wanted her students to design a solution to a problem, test it, and innovate as necessary to improve the outcome. Additionally, she wante...
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Scope on Safety: Responding to Laboratory Accidents
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the need for ongoing safety training based on legal safety standards and better professional practices....
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Scope on the Skies: Juno's Route to Jupiter
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the end of Juno's five-year mission to Jupiter....
Journal Article
Computer modeling can help find new medicines to fight cancer....
Journal Article
Computational biomodeling replicates the activities of living organisms....
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Connecting the Visible World With the Invisible
Particulate diagrams deepen student understanding of chemistry....
Journal Article
Editor's Corner: What Is a Scientific Model?
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Science 2.0: Soaring in a Digital Ecosystem
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses how students can use digital technology to its maximum benefit....
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Focus on Physics: The Equilibrium Rule—A Personal Discovery
This article discusses the equilibrium rule....
Journal Article
Health Wise: Countering Poverty's Effects on Learning
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 discusses the relationship between poverty and learning....
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Safer Science: Student Tests for Safer Labs
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of safety tests to help students demonstrate their proficiency in lab safety....
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Career of the Month: Paleoseismologist
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Chris Goldfinger's career path to becoming a paleoseismologist....
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A Community Mentoring Model for STEM Undergraduate Research Experiences
This article describes a community mentoring model for UREs that avoids some of the common pitfalls of the traditional paradigm while harnessing the power of learning communities to provide young scholars a stimulating collaborative STEM research exp...
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Learning Experiences of University Biology Faculty: A Qualitative Pilot Study
The study described in this article incorporates qualitative research through in-depth, individual, structured interviews with 12 biology faculty from two Midwestern universities to explore perceptions about how they have learned to teach and how the...
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What Can Students Learn About Lab Safety From Mr. Bean?
Chemical laboratory safety education is often synonymous with boring, dry, drawn-out lectures. In an effort to challenge this norm and stimulate vivid learning opportunities about laboratory safety, college chemistry classes analyzed a short, humorou...
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Live From Boone Lake: Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Meets Public Science Writing
As strong proponents of problem-based learning (PBL), the authors designed and taught an interdisciplinary, team–taught PBL course on Writing Science for the Public at a midsize northeastern state university. This approach led to emphasizing collab...
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The study described in this article is part of the Maryland and Delaware Climate Change Education Assessment and Research (MADE CLEAR) project, which aims to improve climate literacy in the K–16 population through systemic, sustainable change in te...
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Exploring the Science–Society Interface With a Bridging Research Course
This article describes the development of a model for an optional, research-based course that bridges two existing, traditionally separate, introductory science courses. This research course provided freedom for students to design and implement new e...
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Nonscience majors often rely on general internet searches to locate science information. This practice can lead to misconceptions because the returned search information can be unreliable. In this article the authors describe how they used the social...
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In this article the authors present an update to Explorations, a program at Stanford University that allows undergraduates in an introductory biology course to explore specialized topics in the biological sciences while providing graduate students an...
Journal Article
In this study, conservation biology faculty and practitioners from across the United States designed classroom exercises and teaching interventions intended to bolster oral communication skills. Through repeated oral presentation assignments integrat...
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Point of View: What Does Formative Assessment Look Like in the College Science Classroom?
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses tools of formative assessment....
Journal Article
Given biotechnology’s emergence as a major competitor in the Pittsburgh region, critically linking education to industry through the Community College of Allegheny County’s Biotechnology Workforce Collaborative (BWC) provided a well-trained workf...
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Case Study: Writing a Journal Case Study
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue describes incorporating a journal article into the classroom by first converting...
Book Chapter
The problems in this chapter ask students to identify basic needs of living things and to describe simple life cycles of animals, plants, and fungi. The problems involve students in a number of science practices included in the Next Generation Scienc...
Book Chapter
The problems in this chapter ask students to identify basic needs of living things and to describe simple life cycles of animals, plants, and fungi. The problems involve students in a number of science practices included in the Next Generation Scienc...
Book Chapter
The problems in this chapter ask students to identify basic needs of living things and to describe simple life cycles of animals, plants, and fungi. The problems involve students in a number of science practices included in the Next Generation Scienc...
Book Chapter
The problems in this chapter ask students to identify basic needs of living things and to describe simple life cycles of animals, plants, and fungi. The problems involve students in a number of science practices included in the Next Generation Scienc...
Book Chapter
Fishermen in the Great Lakes are concerned that a growing population of cormorants will harm the perch fishery. In this ecology problem, students are asked to evaluate the problem and propose possible actions. The challenge is to determine if the fis...
Book Chapter
Lake Michigan–A Fragile Ecosystem
Commercial fishermen have noticed declining numbers and smaller sizes of the fish they catch in Lake Michigan, and they want to know how the government’s stocking program is affecting their catch. In this problem, the challenge to students is to he...
Book Chapter
Residents on a 63-acre lake in Montcalm County, Michigan, are concerned about the loss of a once-common insect from the ecosystem. In this problem, the challenge to students is to help the homeowners discover what is happening to the Loon Lake ecosys...
Book Chapter
The plants found in a bog located on the west side of the Rose Lake marsh in Clinton County, Michigan are changing over time. What is causing this change? Is there a human-related problem that needs to be addressed? In this problem, the challenge to ...
Book Chapter
Purple loosestrife is an invasive species of plant that is spreading through North American wetlands. In this problem, the challenge to students is to predict what effect purple loosestrife will have on wetland ecosystem in the future and if anything...