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Teacher's Toolkit: Exploring the Science Framework and NGSS: Computational Thinking in the Science Classroom

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue discusses computational thinking and how it relates to science teaching....

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Scope on Safety: Culturing Safety in Life Science

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue covers safety in life sciences labs....

Middle School Biology Labs Safety

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Scope on the Skies: Anyone Out There?

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses the Kepler mission to discover other planets orbiting their respective stars....

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In Praise of Messy Data

Lessons from the search for alien worlds....

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The Graph Choice Chart

A tool to help students turn data into evidence....

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Reflecting on Data

Using optics to connect science and mathematics....

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Demystifying Data

Using Google Trends and climate-change data to understand graphs and patterns....

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Thinking With Data

Students use authentic data to form evidence-based conclusions and think like a scientist....

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Editor's Corner: Analyzing and Interpreting Data

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

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Science 2.0: Journaling in the Information Age

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue talks about cloud-based journaling....

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The Green Room: The Deadliest Infectious Diseases

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue talks about the deadly infectious diseases ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria....

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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Teach Like It's "Shark Week"

This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue discusses involving media and current events in your classes and teaching science topics that may be controversial....

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Health Wise: More Teens Are Abusing Human Growth Hormone

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 teen use of synthetic human growth hormone....

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Safer Science: Flammables: A Hot Safety Issue

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to store and use flammable materials correctly....

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Career of the Month: Data Scientist

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

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Teaching Quantitative Reasoning for Nonscience Majors Through Carbon Footprint Analysis

This article describes and assesses a laborastory exercise that has students calculate their "carbon footprint" and evaluate the impacts of various behavior choices on that footprint....

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Active Learning in the Atmospheric Science Classroom and Beyond Through High-Altitude Ballooning

This article describes the implementation of high-altitude balloon research into a variety of undergraduate atmospheric science classes as a means of increasing active student engagement in real-world, problem-solving events....

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Using Collaboration Between English and Biology to Teach Scientific Writing and Communication

This article describes a model for a scientific writing and communication course....

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Too Long to Read: Assessing the Motivation Behind Graduate Student Attendance in Reading Groups

Graduate-level reading groups serve as a primary forum for students to learn current and complex concepts in their field. Because graduate students lament that reading "abnormally long" articles discourage them from attending particular reading group...

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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones

This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information....

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Research and Teaching: Statistics Across the Curriculum Using an Iterative, Interactive Approach in an Inquiry-Based Lab Sequence

The authors describe four instructional modules with the goals of increasing student confidence, appreciation, and performance in both experimental design and data analysis....

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Research and Teaching: Midterm and First-Exam Grades Predict Final Grades in Biology Courses

This article describes a study in which the authors analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades, correlated with final grades in several biology courses....

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Research and Teaching: Undergraduate Science Learners Show Comparable Outcomes Whether Taught by Undergraduate or Graduate Teaching Assistants

This article describes a a comparison of student performance in a series of two introductory biology classes and one third-year class shows that students with graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching assistant leaders earn comparable fi...