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Engineering Encounters: You and Your Students as Green Engineers

Using creativity and everyday materials to design and improve a solar oven....

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Science 101: How Do You Date Fossils?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses how you determine the age of a fossil....

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The Next Generation Science Standards: Where Are We Now and What Have We Learned?

Review 10 important lessons learned since the release of the NGSS nearly two years ago....

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Touching the Stars: Making Astronomy Accessible for Students With Visual Impairments

Discover how universal design is helping to open the night sky to the visually impaired....

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Engineering Progressions in the NGSS Diversity and Equity Case Studies

Learn what you can do to ensure that the NGSS is accessible to all students. ...

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Supporting Science Access for All Students: Using Content Enhancements to Create Pathways to the Big Ideas

Make instructional shifts to reach a wider range of students....

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Collaborative Concept Maps: A Voice for All Science Learners

Use this valuable instructional tool to differentiate instruction for all students....

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The Fish Weir: A Culturally Relevant STEM Activity

Make science meaningful by demonstrating a direct application of STEM to students' lives....

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Science Meets Engineering: Applying the Design Process to Monitor Leatherback Turtle Hatchlings

Explore how temperature and humidity determine the sex of leatherback turtle hatchlings....

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Artificial Floating Islands: An Integrated STEM Unit

Engineer a floating platform capable of supporting aquatic vegetation....

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Editor's Roundtable: Charting a Course Toward NGSS Alignment

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Teacher's Toolkit: "What's Our Three-Word Claim?": Supporting English Language Learning Students' Engagement in Scientific Argumentation

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue explores instructional strategies that support students' argumentation engagement....

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Tried and True: Fossils, Inquiry, and the English Language Learner

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue describes how a teacher integrates language-acquisition skills into her lessons while allowing students to engage in important scientific practices....

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Scope on Safety: Safety: Food for Thought

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses preventing cross-contamination....

Middle School Inquiry Labs Safety

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Scope on the Skies: Far Out! Exploring the Outer Reaches of Our Solar System

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the mission of the New Horizons spacecraft to the outer solar system....

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Thinking Big

Transitioning your students from working with small, student-collected data sets toward "big data."...

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A Day in the Field

A stepped model to developing data-savvy students....

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Harvesting a Sea of Data

Using authentic data to investigate marine migrations....

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Playing With Science

Using electronic games to foster inquiry....

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The Next Generation Science Standards: Where Are We Now and What Have We Learned?

Review 10 important lessons learned since the release of the NGSS nearly two years ago....

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Editor's Corner: Big Data

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Science 2.0: Start Your App Search With a Question

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses how to decide which types of apps to use when teaching science....

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The Green Room: Air Pollution in the Developing World

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue describes where to find ideas for classroom activities about air pollution....

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Health Wise: Debunking Health-Related Myths

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 offers examples of science myths and how to prove that they are incorrect....

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Career of the Month: Data Analyst

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Dean Judson's career path to becoming a data analyst....

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Safer Science: Heightened Risks

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to work safely when using elevated and potentially dangerous locations....

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Are "New Building" Learning Gains Sustainable?

New science facilities have become a reality on many college campuses in the last few decades. Large time investments in creating shared programmatic vision and designing flexible spaces, partnered with large fiscal investments, have created a new g...

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Assessing the Readability of Geoscience Textbooks, Laboratory Manuals, and Supplemental Materials

Reading materials used in undergraduate science classes have not received the same attention in the literature as those used in secondary schools. Additionally, reports critical of college textbooks and their prose are common. To assess both problems...

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Collaboration-Focused Workshop for Interdisciplinary, Inter-Institutional Teams of College Science Faculty

Many science educators know of the pedagogical benefits of inquiry- and research-based labs, yet numerous barriers to implementation exist. In this article we describe a faculty development workshop that explored interdisciplinary and inter-instituti...

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Implementing and Evaluating a Peer-Led Team Learning Approach in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology

This article describes how a Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) program was implemented in a first-year, undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology course sequence to examine the student perceptions of the program and determine the effects of PLTL on student p...

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Using Popular Text to Develop Inquiry Projects: Supporting Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Disciplinary Literacy

Many educators support the idea that science requires a specific set of literacy skills and that all students should be equipped with those skills to become scientifically literate; however, this challenge requires science educators to develop method...

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Targeted Courses in Inquiry Science for Future Elementary School Teachers

This study reports on targeted science courses for undergraduate childhood education majors. We describe an inquiry-oriented, threecourse sequence spanning physical, life, and environmental science. All three courses are hands-on and are designed to...

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Research and Teaching: Aligning Assessment to Instruction: Collaborative Group Testing in Large-Enrollment Science Classes

The authors describe a collaborative group-testing strategy implemented and studied in undergraduate science classes. This project investigated how the assessment strategy relates to student performance and perceptions about collaboration and focu...

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Research and Teaching: A New Tool for Measuring Student Behavioral Engagement in Large University Classes

The authors developed a classroom observation protocol for quantitatively measuring student engagement in large university classes. The Behavioral Engagement Related to instruction (BERI) protocol can be used to provide timely feedback to instructors...

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Research and Teaching: Methods for Creating and Evaluating 3D Tactile Images to Teach STEM Courses to the Visually Impaired

Project 3D IMAGINE or 3D Image Arrays to Graphically Implement New Education is a pilot study that researches the effectiveness of incorporating 3D tactile images, which are critical for learning science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, int...

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Point of View: International Undergraduates: The Teaching Challenge

This article discusses the challenges of keeping international students involved in class activities....

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Two-Year Community: Implementing Vision and Change in a Community College Classroom

The purpose of this article is to describe a model for teaching introductory biology coursework within the Vision and Change framework (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011). The intent of the new model is to transform instructi...

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Case Study: A Step-by-Step Guide to Students Writing Case Studies (and Tools for Novice Case Authors)

In experimenting with ways of structuring the assignment and providing guidance to students, the author developed a series of tools that may be of interest to instructors wishing to implement a case-writing assignment in their course. This assignment...

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Guide to Implementing the NGSS

A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is catalyzing improvements in science classrooms across the United States. Achieving this new vision will...

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Argument-Driven Inquiry in Life Science: Lab Investigations for Grades 6-8 (e-book)

If you’ve been wanting to bring the benefits of argument-driven inquiry to your middle school life science classes, this book will help you get started....