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Guest Editorial: The Changing Landscape of Assessment

An opinion piece about inquiry assessment....

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Recognizing Excellence: Scientists on a Mission

This column features profiles of award-winning science programs and teachers. In this month’s issue third- and fourth-grade students design and build isopod habitats....

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Capitalizing on Curiosity

The author describes how to facilitate the inquiry experience so that teachers can generate wonderful settings for students to develop their own ideas regarding science....

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The Toxics Geography Exercise: Students Use Inquiry to Uncover Uses and Limits of Data in Policy Analysis

Students use publicly available data on industrial activities, history of toxic material disposal, basic chemistry, regulatory approaches of federal and state agencies and environmental policy theory to critique and evaluate public policy decisions a...

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Editorial: Leveraging the Circulatory Systems of the Science Faculty: A Practical Guide for Novice Administrators

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

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Hydrogel Beads: The New Slime Lab?

Students experience an inexpensive inquiry activity on chemical bonding, properties, and replacement reactions. In this activity, students synthesize a cross-linked polymer: hydrogel....

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A Scientific World in a Grain of Sand

Students investigate local sand samples on a shoestring budget. This investigation reveals a fascinating Earth history that can address various interdisciplinary scientific topics, provide rich inquiry experiences, and move beyond the science classro...

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Methods and Strategies: Less Talk but Better Teacher Feedback

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. In this month’s issue the author describes using redirects to improve student-to-student discussions....

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Twenty Ways to Assess Students Using Technology

To ensure students are fully engaged in the learning process, educators must explore every available path for assessment. This article provides a list of ideas and programs/websites that can be used in any combination for formative and summative asse...

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Favorite Demonstration: An Activity to Demonstrate the Genetic Code, Gene Duplication, and Divergence

This activity provides a way for students to practice using the genetic code and, as a result, to realize the redundancy of the genetic code by practicing "reverse translation" and understand why it's physiologically impossible....

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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Mystery of Migration

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The lessons in this month's column explore what we know about animal migration and what still remains a mystery....

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Natural Resources: The Farmer and the Bell

This column helps bring the outdoors into your curriculum. In this month’s issue information on starting your own school garden is provided....

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Improving Student Perceptions of Science Through the Use of State-of-the-Art Instrumentation in General Chemistry Laboratory

Access to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy early in the college curriculum was provided to undergraduate students in an effort to improve student perceptions of science. Survey results indicated positive student perceptions after working...

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Case Study: Bewitching Ideas Influence Learning: An Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Teaching Experience

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 authors describe an interdisciplinary approach to case study teaching tha...

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The Sounds of Summer

Reading suggestions from NSTA Recommends reviewers....

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The Case of Lobster Shell Disease

The authors combined content-driven and inquiry-based lessons into the framework of problem-based learning. These older elementary students explored a local problem of lobsters infected by lobster shell disease....

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Editor's Note: Assessment: Learning Under Construction

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

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Editor's Roundtable: Going Native

Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Summer Reading, Dawn to Dusk

NSTA Recommends reviewers suggest science books to refresh your spirit and renew your professional skills....

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Science 2.0: PD on a Shoestring

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue describes inexpensive or free professional development opportunities by listing webinars, videos, podcasts, and more that are available online....

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Whoooo Knew?

In this article the authors discuss several assessment strategies that you can use and adapt for inquiry-based science units, using the example of a weeklong fifth-grade unit about owls and owl pellets....

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Using Technology in the Classroom

The author describes how she has come to use technology in her classroom over the years. Her main topics include using the internet, experiencing podcasts, using technology for assessment, and recording results from science research....

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It's Elemental!

Using Period Table Live! pushes students to think critically and helps them learn the period trends in properties....

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The Green Room: A Sense of Place

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue, the author discusses how to create a sense of place for your students....

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Science 101: What causes a charge to move from one substance to another?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. In this month’s issue the author describes how to build a primitive electroscope to show charge transfer....

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 1: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes (e-book)

Author Page Keeley continues to provide K–12 teachers with her highly usable and popular formula for uncovering and addressing the preconceptions that students bring to the classroom—the formative assessment probe—in this first book devoted exc...

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Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion (e-book)

Never has it been so easy for educators to learn to teach physical science with confidence. Award-winning author Bill Robertson launched his bestselling Stop Faking It! series in 2002 with Force and Motion—offering elementary and middle school te...

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Gourmet Lab: The Scientific Principles Behind Your Favorite Foods (e-book)

Hands-on, inquiry-based, and relevant to every student’s life, Gourmet Lab serves up a full menu of activities for science teachers of grades 6–12. This collection of 15 hands-on experiments—each of which includes a full set of both student and...

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Yet More Everyday Science Mysteries: Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching (e-book)

In the fourth book of this award-winning series, author Richard Konicek-Moran explores 15 new mysteries children and adults encounter in their daily lives. Relating the mysteries to experiences familiar to elementary and middle school students—Part...