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Science For All

This issue of The Science Teacher marks our 24th consecutive annual issue devoted to the theme, “Science for All.” Each year this special issue presents ideas and teaching strategies for helping all learners find success in their science classes....

By Steve Metz

Inclusion

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Exit Tickets

Understanding students, adapting instruction, and addressing equity ...

By Kelsie Fowler, Mark Windschitl, and Jennifer Richards

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Investigating Urban Trees

Mobile geospatial technologies enable high school students to engage in authentic scientific data collection and analysis that promote spatial-thinking and reasoning skills, as well as problem-solving in a school’s local environment. We developed a...

By James Carrigan, Alec Bodzin, Thomas Hammond, Scott Rutzmoser, Kate Popejoy, and William Farina

High School Environmental Science

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The Perfect Match

A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this lesson students use the enginee...

By Julie Reynolds

Life Science

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Genetics for All

This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and struggling readers during an int...

By Lauren Stewart, Donna Ross, and Kimberly Elliot

Biology Labs Life Science

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A Web of Ideas

Fostering scientific discourse with spider web discussions ...

By Michael Giamellaro, Jackson Blackburn, Molly Honea, and Jacob LaPlante

High School Teaching Strategies

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Refraction

Exploring light as it moves from one medium to another with the intriguing result of different speeds—the bending of light we call refraction. ...

By Paul G. Hewitt

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Ecologist

Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and even economics. Todd Elliott, who ...

By Luba Vangelova

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Science for All—19th Century "Edutainment"

In 19th-century America, one popular way people obtained new scientific information was through traveling lectures and science demonstrations, sometimes held in large halls called “lyceums.” Before the advent of radio and television, these were l...

By Michael Apfeldorf

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The Early Years: Create a Kit

This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This issue describes how teachers can build their own kits....

Early Childhood Elementary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Instructional Materials Teaching Strategies

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Science Strategies Through Poetry

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong

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Animatronic Lions, and Tigers, and Bears Oh! My!

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering. This issue shares information about computational thinking and 3D printing. ...

By Anna Newley, Erdogan Kaya, Ezgi Yesilyurt, and Hasan Deniz