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A Special Assignment From NASA: Understanding Earth's Atmosphere Through the Integration of Science and Mathematics

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....

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Crazy for Loco Beans

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...

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Exploring Your Environment

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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Imaginative Inventions

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...

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Wild About Data

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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What Does It Mean to Know?

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

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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Start With Science

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....

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STEM Supports a Blooming Summer

Book suggestions from NSTA Recommends reviewers....

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Application of Core Science Concepts Using Digital Video: A "Hands-On" Laptop Approach

Students use freeware to make a short video with text, images, and music as a way to explain scientific concepts that are traditionally difficult for students to apply. The data from this study underscore the impact social media has on student engage...

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E-mail–Based Formative Assessment: A Chronicle of Research Inspired Practice

This article describes an e-mail–based formative assessment program, which was established to encourage students to revisit first-year general chemistry material regularly in a low-risk and supportive environment....

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Teaching Critical Thinking Through Media Literacy

In this article the author introduces many engaging media-literacy lessons that educators have developed, piloted, and evaluated....

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Teaching Through Trade Books

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue features books and lessons that will have students anticipating the interesting topics and engaging activities that await them in science class this school year...

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Safer Science: Clean and Green

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses cleaning methods in schools....

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Formative Assessment Probes: Where Did the Water Go?

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses how formative assessment relates to standards-based teaching and learning....

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Case Study: Using A Case Study Article on Earwax to Enhance Understanding and Interest in Genetics

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the case study article explains that humans either have wet or dry earwax and...

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Editorial: Belly of the Beast

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

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Tried and True: Cubes and Raisins: A Student-Centered Lesson Designed to Teach Observations and Inferences

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue discusses making observations and inferences....

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A Five-Year University/Community College Collaboration to Build STEM Pipeline Capacity

This article investigates the mechanisms through which undergraduate research experiences for community college students can have second-order and multiplier effects on other students and home community college science, technology, engineering, and m...

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Editor's Corner: Big Ideas

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

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Viral News: Media Literacy for the 21st Century

The authors present a lesson designed to address the 21st-century skills of information and media literacy in the context of science issues. This lesson was embedded in a full unit focused on viruses and vaccines at the eighth-grade level....

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Editor's Note: The First Two Weeks of School

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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HeteroGenius Classes

The author describes a technique called metacognitive circles, which is used with heterogeneous classes. Metacognitive circles allow teachers to provide opportunities to obtain, evaluate, and communicate information....

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Growing Water Pearls

This article describes three science investigations students can conduct using a single bag of superabsorbent water pearls....

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Teacher's Toolkit: Using Metacognition to Develop Understanding of the Role of Evidence in Science

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue focuses on strategies to encourage students to make more effective observations, collections, and recordings of data....

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Communicating Science Concepts Through Art: 21st-Century Skills in Practice

To demonstrate the strength of integrating conceptual art strategies into a variety of science curricula, science teachers recruited the school's art teacher to provide basic art lessons during science classes. This allowed students to learn the fund...

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Tech Trek: Skeins of Student Contribution: A New Web 2.0 Tool for Science

This column provides a look at the latest technology for science educators. This issue discusses new Web 2.0 tools....

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The Green Room: The Ecology of Food

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses modern agricultural technologies....