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Health Wise: Flu Season: The Best Defense
This column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—along with classroom activities that help students make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses an activity that shows how flu germs spread....
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Scope on the Skies: Apparent Sizes, or "It was this big!"
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses specific astronomic events that were highly publicized....
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A guided inquiry helps students view an equilibrium system from the particulate level....
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes the life of an inventor....
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The authors review DNA fingerprinting and describe two standards-based lessons they have used in middle school science classes to provide a hands-on approach to learning the basic idea of how restriction enzymes work, the fundamentals of gel electrop...
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The Evolution Readiness project introduces fourth-grade students to a series of big ideas that would lead them to understand the theory of evolution by natural selection. The goal in developing this project was to cover the fundamental concepts that ...
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Science Shorts: Modeling Light and Shadows
This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. This month’s issue describes a 5E lesson in which students study light and shadows through a broad range of verbal, numerical, and symbolic models....
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue is Part 1 of two columns dealing with classroom management....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Talking About Shadows
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue highlights shadow investigations that provide an ideal context for children to collect and analyze data used to recognize and explain predictable patterns of the Sun's...
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By playing into students' inquisitive nature and taking a closer look into the details of science content, teachers can start uncovering student misconceptions, correcting them, and even preventing future misconceptions from developing....