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Methods and Strategies: Learning Science in Cultural Context

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue describes students taking a school yard hike to identify rock and mineral materials in and around students' classroom that come from the Earth....

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Science 101: What Causes Major Wind Patterns, Such as Trade Winds?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses general wind patterns on Earth....

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The Leonardo Strategy: Scientific Discourse and Argumentation in an Online Environment

Use online discussion forums to engage even your most reluctant students....

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Supporting Linguistically Diverse Students in an Era of Science Education Reform

Try these strategies for closing the achievement gap between your ELL/ESL and English-speaking students....

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Every Assessment Tells a Story

Tell a story to reduce anxiety and boost student achievement on assessments....

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Science + Art = Enhanced Learning Experiences for Students

Blend art and science to promote student thinking, interaction with phenomena, and diverse modes of expression....

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Engage. Elaborate. Evaluate! Virtual Environment-Based Assessments of Science Content and Practices

Create an immersive virtual environment to engage students in problem solving....

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Using Place-Based Inquiry to Inspire and Motivate Future Scientists

Combine inquiry with place-based education to improve student attitudes about science....

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Stomp Rockets: A High-Impact Exploration of Science Concepts

Explore the principles of engineering and design with a rocket-building activity....

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Standardized Test Questions: A Tool for Developing Students' Proficiency With the Framework's Science Practices

Learn to create test items that put students' higher-level thinking skills to the test....

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Editor's Roundtable: Meet Me in the Middle in Boston

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

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Teachers Toolkit: Scientific Explanations and Arguments: Accessible Experiences Through Exploratory Arguments

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue focuses on activities that use a puzzling but accessible phenomenon to engage and familiarize students with fundamental aspects of explanation a...

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Scope on Safety: Eating in the Lab: A Recipe for Disaster

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the rules associated with eating in the science laboratory....

Middle School Labs Safety

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Scope on the Skies: A Tail of Two Comets

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses comets, Jupiter, and visible planets....

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A New Take on the Field Trip

A low-tech, inquiry-based virtual field experience...

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Bioethics in the Hunger Games

Evaluating the effects of genetic engineering through popular fiction....

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Beyond "My Opinion Versus Yours"

Supporting students in socio-scientific argumentation...

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Personalizing Science

Four lessons and five strategies for engaging diverse students with socio-scientific issues...

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MicroWorld

Interdisciplinary investigations of scale...

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Editor's Corner: Science and Society

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

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The Green Room: Back to Ecological Basics, Part 2

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses the matter cycles in ecosystems....

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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Showtime, Not Naptime

This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue covers tips to help teachers have a successful movie day....

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Safer Science: Shining a Light on Laser Safety

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to safely use lasers....

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Health Wise: Teens, Cigarettes, and E-Cigarettes

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 teens and tobacco use....

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Career of the Month: Structural Biologist

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Erica Ollmann Saphire's career path to becoming a structural biologist....

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Teaching About Ethics and the Process of Science Using Retracted Publications

In this article the authors discuss their experience using articles that have been "abandoned" (results are no longer accepted due to new evidence) and/or retracted as methods for teaching students about scientific literature in general and specifica...

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Teaching Science and Mathematics: Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Knowledge Needs

This article describes an activity, entitled preservice elementary teachers science and mathematics activity, designed to expose preservice elementary teachers to the multiple domains of teacher knowledge for science and mathematics instruction....

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Remeasuring Postsecondary Teaching: How Singular Categories of Instruction Obscure the Multiple Dimensions of Classroom Practice

This article introduces a new approach to studying postsecondary teaching that captures five distinct dimensions of teaching practice as they interact over time....

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A Multidisciplinary Laboratory Course in Color Science

This article includes descriptions of lab experiments, information on assessment measures, and a discussion of best practices for projects involving the science of color, in which several disciplinary representatives work together to create a course ...

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Introducing Transdisciplinary Problem Solving to Environmental Management Systems and Geology Students Through a Case Study of Disturbed Coastal Systems

Environmental management, geology, and landscape architecture students participated in a transdisciplinary course designed to help students understand approaches to restoring disturbed coastal systems in Louisiana....

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Student-Generated Cases: Giving Students More Ownership in the Learning Process

This article describes a novel method used during the past two years for an introductory neurobiology course that required students to generate their own cases....

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Editorial: Good Help Is NOT Hard to Find

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

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Point of View: The American Adjunct: Almost Always a Bridesmaid, Almost Never a Bride

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue talks about the challenges and benefits of being an adjunct professor....

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Point of View: A Tipping Point in Stem Education Reform

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses STEM education reform....

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Two-Year Community: Examination of the Effects of a Watershed Project

The author of this article has involved students in a long-term watershed study, the purpose of which is to encourage interest in scientific inquiry and protection of the local environment. To determine the effect of the watershed study on learning o...

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Case Study: Sick on a South American Sugarcane Plantation

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 an interrupted case study designed for use in an undergraduate microbi...

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Research and Teaching: Principles, First and Foremost: A Tool for Understanding Biological Processes

The authors developed an instructional model that focused on using principles first, foremost, and as tools in a wide variety of contexts. We focused especially on changes in matter and energy in processes that involve carbon in living systems....

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Research and Teaching: Collaborative Testing: Evidence of Learning in a Controlled In-Class Study of Undergraduate Students

In this article the authors compare two-stage collaborative testing with individual testing to determine which format has a greater effect on student learning in an undergraduate Earth and Ocean Science course....