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Science 2.0: Tablets as Learning Hubs
This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses the use of tablet computers as a digital hub for learning....
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The Green Room: Fracking for Natural Gas
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses the environmental problems and economic benefits associated with using fracking to extract natural gas....
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Identifying Mathematics Content and Integrating It Into Science Instruction
Learn what to do when your students lack the necessary math skills to master science content....
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Editor's Corner: New Standards
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Methods and Strategies: On the Case
Implementing environmental science case studies helps students experience science in a meaningful way. This article describes a case study that involves the effects of the invasive plant kudzu....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Confronting Common Folklore—Catching a Cold
Formative assessment probes can help teachers find out what students' ideas are before teaching lessons and use the information to adjust instructional strategies. This article gives an example teachers can use to see if students understand signs of ...
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Extant and emerging literature on undergraduate research experiences (UREs) focuses on the identification of their benefits to student participants. This study offers descriptions, drawn from an analysis of students' reflective journals, of three pro...
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Scope on the Skies: The Changing Earth's Surface
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses using satellite technology to describe the changing of seasons in rather precise terms using either geographic or celestial coordinates....
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Case Study: Assessing Critical-Thinking Skills Using Articles From the Popular Press
The author describes an instrument for evaluating critical-thinking skills using science articles in the popular press....
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Morning Meeting and Science—A Winning Combination
Daily morning meetings help improve key social skills needed for science class....
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Integrative Biology: A Capstone Course for an Introductory Biology Core
A capstone to a biology introductory curriculum was developed with the specific goals of enhancing integration of course content, promoting development of oral presentation skills and critical reading and thinking skills, and introducing ecological p...
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The author suggests expanding the NSTA community to two-year communities and four-year communities, so they can participate in conversations about grades 13–16 coordination....
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Editors' Note: Moving Toward the Next Generation Science Standards
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Swap Meet: A Novel Way to Introduce Unit Conversion
This article describes a way to engage students through playing a card game to reinforce unit conversion skills....
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A Novel Technology to Investigate Students' Understandings of Enzyme Representations
This article describes how digital pen-and-paper technology was used to improve data collection in research regarding students' learning, specifically their understanding of enzyme-substrate interactions as depicted in textbook representations....
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The Structure and Assessment of a Unique and Popular Interdisciplinary Science Course for Nonmajors
Science Without Borders is a unique interdisciplinary science course that uses group and active-learning strategies and is in high demand among nonscience majors at a masters-level university. This article describes the course's unique structure and ...
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Data Scientist Daniel Tunkelang
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue discusses the work of a data scientist....
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How Much Have You "Bean" Eating?
Students use beans to explore the relationship between world population and limited food resources....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Looking at Life Cycles
This article discusses the different stages of the life cycles of butterflies and frogs....
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A teacher's expedition inspires her school to follow along and adopt healthy habits....
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The instructor of an integrated science course for nonscience majors embedded content-related video segments from YouTube and other similar internet sources into lecture. Through this study, the instructor wanted to know students' perceptions of how ...
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Developing Graduate Student's Knowledge of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium Through Lesson Study
A group of graduate teaching assistants collaborated with a biology professor and a science educator in a Japanese Lesson Study to directly address a need for contextualized learning. The results indicated that the participants were able to articulat...
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Explore Earth's atmosphere with an air-pressure activity. The lessons in the unit described in this article meet content objectives from both science and mathematics. ...
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Are We Looking at the Same Sun? Exploring the Seasons Using Data Analysis
Students gather, analyze, and interpret data to understand why the seasons change. This lesson features the 4E x 2 instructional model....
Book Chapter
Do you remember your amazement the first time you watched a Mexican jumping bean hop around in the palm of your hand? Investigating "jumping beans" is a unique way to get your students engaged in scientific inquiry. In this chapter, students invest...
Book Chapter
Depending on you location, you may get to experience different seasons–thus meaning your environment changes. Students can begin to make initial observations about an area and then follow this area through the changes that occur over the course of ...
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Invention assists students in understanding the relationships between the individual subjects of STEM education (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). The playful nature of this chapter's trade books adds that additional spark of creati...
Book Chapter
In today’s world of short attention spans and media overload, the ability to create visual representations to communicate data is an important skill. This lessons, in this chapter, focus on various ways to display data and the purpose of visual r...
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Third-grade students research using claims and evidence in science. Throughout this unit students examine how scientific knowledge is developed and shaped over time....
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Editor's Roundtable: Learning in a Digital Frame
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Teaching for creativity can help students improve critical-thinking skills, motivation, and engagement and start to understand the role of creativity in developing new scientific knowledge. This article shows how to modify existing lessons and labs t...
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Summertime Musings of a Former New Teacher
This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue provides ideas on how to reflect on the past year's teaching and how to use this information to improve next year's teaching....
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Scope on Safety: Bringing Safety Into Bloom
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses greenhouse safety....
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Engaging science investigations form the foundation of a science-centered school year. This article describes four activities that keep students engaged in science throughout the year....