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Students of exercise science are well positioned to facilitate a shift of the nation's attitude on health care from disease treatment to disease prevention. This report chronicles the authors' efforts toward transforming the exercise physiology core ...
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Methods and Strategies: The Concept of a Model
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses ways to teach students the meaning behind models and not just what they represent....
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Science Shorts: Blood in a Bag
This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue models representing organ systems are explored....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Earthquakes!
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue covers two books that deal with earthquakes....
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A lesson on snow demonstrates several principles of practice for using models in elementary science. The article also discusses how models can be used to help students construct meaning as they compare the properties of models....
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An Introduction to Tissue Engineering Using Hydrogels
This article presents a three-part classroom activity that introduces students to examples of research in the field of tissue engineering and allows them to replicate experiments being done in university laboratories using alginate hydrogels....
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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The Accreditation Process for Science: The Path Leads to Unintended (Positive) Consequences
This article discusses how a community of scholars came together to create assessments across science departments for a teacher preparation program in secondary science teaching....
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Extended Problem-Based Learning Improves Scientific Communication in Senior Biology Students
This article describes a model of extended problem-based learning that instructed upper-level undergraduate students to focus on a single biological problem while improving their critical-thinking, presentation, and scientific-writing skills....
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This article discusses a Volcanic Concept Survey, an instrument designed to measure conceptual understanding of volcanic processes and hazards. Scores from this survey show that students who learned about volcanoes from nontraditional sources, such a...
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What Students Really Want in Science Class
The authors asked biology students "What helps high school students learn science?" They share the digital resources and other classroom activities that students thought would help them learn science....
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Case Study: The Chemistry of Cocaine
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 case study focuses on the chemistry of cocaine to teach a number of core concepts in o...
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NSTA's 2011–2012 president writes a message for science educators....
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This article discusses a creative visualization project to motivate and engage students. Students depict a dinosaur in its ecosystem and include all three elements of the environment: air, land, and water. Students explore scientific content in evolu...
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NSTA's 2011–2012 president writes a message for science educators....
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Safer Science: Safety on the Move
This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. In this month’s issue, the author covers safety on field trips....
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Career of the Month: Smell Scientist
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes the work of smell scientist Avery Gilbert....
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After the Lab: Learning Begins When Cleanup Starts
Having students design their own methods regarding data collection during a lab may help them formulate appropriate investigative procedures. The authors use a modified gallery walk to develop science skills....