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Scope on Safety: Digging up the dirt on soil safety

Should middle school science teachers be concerned about students bringing in unknown sources of soil to work on in class as the activity suggests? The science is well intended, but is it safe? What are some possible safety issues that might be of co...

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Methods and Strategies: Using Learning Progressions to Monitor Progress Across Grades

Learning progressions (LPs)—descriptive continuums of how students develop and demonstrate more sophisticated understanding over time—have become an increasingly important tool in today’s science classrooms. Here the author discusses some of th...

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The Prepared Practitioner: Groundwater—A Green Issue

This issue’s theme—“Going Green”—relates to environmental education. In an article published in the Journal of Science Teacher Education, Dickerson and colleagues (2007) discuss issues related to the lack of groundwater education in school ...

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Health Wise: February 2010

Can eating less meat really help the environment? ...

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Editor’s Note: Reaching Out

The National Science Education Teaching Standards state that students should be provided with opportunities to use resources outside the classroom (Standard D; NRC 1996). Involving parents in learning, including informal learning sites, and tapping i...

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Scope on the Skies: End of the line for a star like ours

Stars of different masses have varying life spans, with the more massive stars “burning out” more quickly than stars of lower masses. How or what they do when they burn out also varies, depending on the mass of the star. All stars are called main...

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The Built Environment

For a science teacher in a city, it can sometimes be a challenge to find curricula that are geared specifically toward urban students. The author tackled this dilemma by creating a unit that focused on the urban surroundings experienced by his second...