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Science Sampler: Giants don’t exist in the real world—Challenges of teaching scale and structure
Issues that relate to the unifying theme of scale, as defined by the National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) and Science for All Americans (AAAS 1989), are common in both science and everyday life. Until recently, there has been little resear...
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Methods and Strategies: The Reflective Assessment Technique
Teachers often rely on student questions, their observations of students at work, and their own intuition to monitor how well students are learning. However, the authors found that teachers learn more about their students when they use the four-step ...
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The United States has a significant deficit in the number of university students choosing to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and subsequently entering STEM professions (National Science Board 2008). One way to addres...
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Editor’s Roundtable: All things great and small
Middle level students often demonstrate limited familiarity with extremes, whether in distance, time, temperature, speed, or size: and they can have poor measuring skills and an inadequate number sense. The can make scale a very difficult concept for...
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The declining cost of computers and wireless networks has made laptop programs more affordable than ever. At the same time, the internet resources available to teachers and students have grown exponentially in the 15 years since web browsers first be...
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Quarked!TMAdventures in the Subatomic Universe is a free, educational website developed by a team of physicists, educators, and designers at the University of Kansas to introduce students to scale and the nature of matter. In this article the authors...
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Natural Resources: Winter Secrets
The obvious signs of winter: red noses, colorful scarves, fidgety students. The not-so-obvious? A gall on a branch, red berries, shortening days. This month, Natural Resources focuses on print resources—appropriate for the season for lurking in a l...
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Science Shorts: Snowflake Symmetry
Even if you get snow in your area, studying real snowflakes in situ can be challenging, but you can still develop a dynamic, hands- and minds-on exploration that can be conducted year-round. Images of actual snowflakes not only help students better v...