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Including Students in a Model of the Earth, Moon, and Sun System

Model the phases of the Moon and other astronomy concepts with this hands-on approach that will keep students on their toes....

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Think Instruments, Think Apps: Using App-Based Technology in the Science Classroom

Integrate tablets and smartphones into your classroom by incorporating the latest apps into your lessons....

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Born to Run: Experimental Evolution of High Voluntary Exercise in Mice

Explore evolutionary change in response to selection using real organisms instead of simulations....

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Editor's Roundtable: Adding some STEAM to Astronomy

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

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Guest Editorial: Modeling What We Can't Sense—Using Evidence We Can

An opinion piece about exploring ways the practices of science can be integrated with literature....

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Teacher's Toolkit: Scientific Explanations and Arguments: Building New Science Content Knowledge Through Argumentation

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue describes a process by which to develop science lessons that support students in engaging in and learning through argumentation....

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Tried and True: Planetary Properties: A Systems Perspective

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue describes a lesson that provides students with an opportunity to learn about the properties of each planet as well as properties that the planets share...

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Scope on Safety: Safety's Within Your Grasp

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses assessing safety issues during a model's testing phase....

Middle School STEM Labs Makerspace Safety

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Scope on the Skies: Location, Location, Location

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue has students developing a complete address for their location—a universal address....

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The Dark Side of the Tube

A science and statistics integration activity using charismatic cockroaches....

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Discovering Our Stellar Neighborhood

Modeling the nearby stars in three dimensions....

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Graphing the Past

A stratigraphy project for interpreting data and integrating science and math....

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Striding Through Time

Using dinosaur tracks to integrate engineering and math in the science classroom....

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Computational Thinking in High School Science Classrooms

Exploring the science Framework and NGSS. ...

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Editor's Corner: Math-Science Connections

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

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Science 2.0: Write Your Own Science Book

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses creating digital science books....

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The Green Room: The Latest on Climate Change

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses activities having to do with climate change....

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The New Teacher's Toolbox: The A-to-Z Summer Checklist

This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue provides an A–Z list of important reminders for the last weeks of school....

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Health Wise: Putting the Brakes on Marijuana Use

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 getting students to think critically about measurable consequences of marijuana use....

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Idea Bank: Modeling the Millikan Oil Drop Experiment

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank describes an activity that allows students to recreate Robert Millikan's thought process for his oil drop experiment....

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Safer Science: Accommodation and Laboratory Safety

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue addresses maintaining a safer classroom environment while accommodating special needs students....

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Career of the Month: An Interview With Biological Engineer Reshma Shetty

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Reshma Shetty's career path to becoming a biological engineer....

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Twitter in the Higher Education Classroom: A Student and Faculty Assessment of Use and Perception

This article describes a study that assesses social media use and perception of utility in higher education classrooms among faculty, graduate, and undergraduate cohorts....

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Beginning a Classroom Inquiry: Using Photovoice to Connect College Students to Community Science

In this article the process of photovoice is showcased as a platform for undergraduate students to connect to their local community through science while beginning to develop an inquiry project on environmental stability....

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A Learner-Centered Molecular Modeling Exercise for Allied Health Majors in a Biochemistry Class

This article describes a learner-centered project given to allied health majors in a biochemistry course. The project involved building molecular models of imagined protein binding sites for the drug thalidomide....

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General Chemistry II: Setting the Stage on the First Day With Jeopardy

This article describes using an interactive Jeopardy-type review for the first-class meeting as a means to engage students, review the previous semester content, and set expectations for the new semester of our general chemistry series....

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A Novel Interdisciplinary Science Experience for Undergraduates Across Introductory Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Courses

This article describes the mobilization and implementation of a community-oriented Interdisciplinary Science Seminar (ISS) that adds interdisciplinary content to traditional introductory science courses without a significant investment of additional ...

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Applying the Brakes: How Practical Classroom Decisions Affect the Adoption of Inquiry Instruction

The study described in this article involved 13 community college biology instructors as they adopted bioinformatics problem-based learning modules in their classroom. The study used a diffusion of an innovation theoretical framework and a systematic...

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Collaborative Projects Increase Student Learning Outcome Performance in Nonmajors Environmental Science Course

The focus of this article is primarily on the success of a semester in which students were invited by the director of the campus library to specifically address, and make recommendations to mitigate, the carbon footprint of the library....

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Editorial: Bully for You

The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Two-Year Community: A Six-Year Review of Student Success in a Biology Course Using Lecture, Blended, and Hybrid Methods

This article presents a comparison of the success rates of different teaching methods for students enrolled in a general biology course with laboratory for majors in a community college....

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Case Study: From Gummy Bears to Celery Stalks: Diffusion and Osmosis

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 covers diffusion and osmosis....

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Research and Teaching: Fostering Collaborative Problem Solving and 21st Century Skills Using the DEEPER Scaffolding Framework

This article describes the DEEPER framework for scaffolding collaborative problem solving that was designed to address the student outcomes outlined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills....

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Research and Teaching: Published Freshman Lab Exercises as Indicators of Awareness and Adoption of Instructional Practices Grounded in Discipline-Based Education Research

This article looks at a potential factor for the existence of a research-practice gap in science instruction in higher education: instructors' access to research-based instructional materials....

Book Chapter

Rubber vs. Glass: I Wonder Why sample

In this sample from Rubber vs. Glass: I Wonder Why you will explore the properties of rubber vs. glass and will discover that different objects have special and useful properties. ...

Book Chapter

Light and Color: I Wonder Why sample

This sample from Light and Color: I Wonder Why unfolds observations about light, interaction with the properties of light, and the effect of light on objects. By reading this sample, you’ll discover what we mean when we say the colors of a rainbow...

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Sounds Are High, Sounds Are Low: I Wonder Why (Book Sample)

This sample from Sounds Are High, Sounds Are Low: I Wonder Why presents the nature of waves and sound with humorous proof in poetry of just how fun it is to observe with your ears. It’s ideal for beginning readers and hilarious practice for future...

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Michael's Racing Machine: I Wonder Why sample

This sample from Michael’s Racing Machine: I Wonder Why illustrates the use of simple machines to accomplish work. It provides an easy-to-understand lesson in how simple machines are all around us, making work more efficient. You will learn that a ...

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Dark as a Shadow: I Wonder Why sample

This sample from Dark as a Shadow: I Wonder Why is written in lively rhymes, making it fun to learn the science behind why shadows change length through the day and disappear in the dark. Kids will learn to twist and bend or wiggle and shake, to see...

Book Chapter

Next Time You See The Moon sample

This sample chapter from Next Time You See The Moon focuses on the Moon's changing shapes and the many phases of the Moon. If you keep track of the Moon phases for a while, you will discover that it takes about a month to observe all of the Moon phas...