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When Wrong Answers Receive Top Grades

This article discusses whether the education community shares a collective understanding about how students should be evaluated. ...

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Tried and True: Using Notebooks to Aid Organization

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue covers a notebook plan to help students get organized in the science class....

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Effective Strategies for Engaging Students in Large-Lecture, Nonmajors Science Courses

This article reports on the impacts of changing an introductory environmental science class to move away from standard lecture delivery to increase student engagement in class. The class was designed around small-group activities, inquiry labs, and s...

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The New Teacher's Toolbox: The Beauty of Bell Ringers

This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue discusses tactics to have a good start each day at the beginning of class....

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Nurturing the Child Scientist

Kindergarteners collect natural objects, investigate their objects, and record observations in science notebooks....

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Science 2.0: Upgrade Your Science Fair

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue discusses Google's science fair in which students can participate by sharing their research projects on the internet....

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Tried and True: I Scream for Ice Cream (in 45 minutes)!

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue covers students learning about chemistry by making ice cream in a guided inquiry laboratory....

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Observation Station

A teacher integrates science observations into the writing center. At the observation station, students explore new items with a science theme and use their notes and questions for class writings every day....

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Research and Teaching: Meaningful Learning in a First-Year Chemistry Laboratory Course: Differences Across Classical, Discovery, and Instrumental Experiments

To investigate students' perceptions of learning through three categories of experiments—classical, discovery, and instrumental—six students were interviewed over the course of a semester. Students' descriptions of their learning in the laborator...

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The Green Room: Environmental Research Projects

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses doing a research project/science fair project that has an environmental focus....

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Green Science: Revisiting Recycling

This column focuses on issues related to environmentally friendly and sustainable science. This month’s issue covers recycling....

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Natural Resources: A Sixth Sense

This column helps bring the outdoors into your curriculum. This month’s issue talks about instilling a sense of wonder in your students....

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Research and Teaching: Assessment of a Constructivist-Motivated Mentoring Program to Enhance the Teaching Skills of Atmospheric Science Graduate Students

This article describes a collaborative mentoring program in which graduate students from a university atmospheric science research department team-taught environmental science classes with professors in a liberal arts college. Qualitative analysis of...

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Students Inspiring Students

The Archimedes Initiative is a free, online archive of videos recorded at county and state science fairs, which show students addressing their peers. This article describes the content of the website and suggests how students, teachers, and parents c...

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Tried and True: The Incredible Growing Gummi Bear

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. In this month’s issue the author describes using gummi bears to review and reinforce students' process skills....

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Webcam Stories

Students watch science narratives unfold in real time on the internet. Students collect, sort, analyze, and digest the information, and then they create a story based on their prior knowledge and their focus as they watch....