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Idea Bank: Vectors on the Basketball Court

An Idea Bank published in the April/May 2009 issue of The Science Teacher describes an experiential physics lesson on vectors and vector addition (Brown 2009). Like its football predecessor, the basketball-based investigation presented in this Idea ...

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Science Sampler: Simple machine junk cars

During the month of May, the author’s eighth-grade physical science students study the six simple machines through hands-on activities, reading assignments, videos, and notes. At the end of the month, they can easily identify the six types of simpl...

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Point of View: A Lateral View of Darwin

Last year, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809–1882); it has been approximately 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species on the theory of evolution by natural selection. As the authors’ cont...

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Methods and Strategies: Science and Literacy Centers

In recent years, science has taken a backseat to reading and mathematics in many primary classrooms. Imaginative teachers have coped with this loss of science time by creatively integrating science topics into reading instructional materials (Douglas...