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Science Shorts: Learning From the Spill

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Science Shorts: Learning From the Spill

It is hard to imagine anything good coming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; even suggestions that the public and private sectors will learn and adapt to ensure that nothing like it can happen again are almost as difficult to digest as the massiv...

Scope on the Skies: Total lunar eclipse

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Scope on the Skies: Total lunar eclipse

In the hours before the December solstice, the full Moon will pass through the Earth’s shadow for a total lunar eclipse that will be visible at some point from all of North America. Depending on your longitude and time zone, this event will be visi...

Guest Editorial: Sparks That Ignite Inquiry

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Guest Editorial: Sparks That Ignite Inquiry

Students ask questions all the time. They have natural curiosities about the world in which they live. Teachers help pique this curiosity with engaging activities—making students want to know more. Therefore, experienced teachers listen for and to ...

Curiosity + Kindergarten = Future Scientists

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Curiosity + Kindergarten = Future Scientists

Carefully crafted experiences in the early childhood classroom can create learning opportunities for children that allow one curiosity to lead to another. Learning how to find out answers to fascinating questions is what science is all about. In fact...

The Hudson River Plume

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The Hudson River Plume

The Hudson River Watershed contains a variety of geologic, topographic, climatic, and hydrologic features and a diversity of land-use patterns—making it an ideal model for studying human impact on the coastal environment. In this article, the autho...

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