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Editor’s Note: Classification Matters

Classification skills, so foundational to science, must be taught. While children have a passion and drive to organize and categorize their experiences, sometimes the way they organize them doesn’t lead to a worthwhile or accurate scientific unders...

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Case Study: Chimpanzee Droppings Lead Scientists to Evolutionary Discovery

This case study explores the evolution of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) from SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) and how scientists approach problems. The goal is for students to get a sense of how questions are formulated and methods are employ...

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 (Books published in 2008)

Today’s classrooms have no real walls! Students explore the world on field trips, during virtual journeys on the world wide web, and through the books they read. These pathways help them fly to the ends of the universe to satisfy their scientific c...

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The Early Years: Does Light Go Through It?

Words give us the power to describe our world and how we experience it. Any time we classify something, we give it a name to distinguish it from all others of its kind. Like the buttons on a kitchen blender which says “mix” in five or six differe...

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Point of View: “Is a Bird an Animal?” The Necessity of Science Content Knowledge

Teachers often see science as an important subject to teach, but they are often reluctant to teach science because they feel inadequately prepared or are unsure of their abilities (Atwater, Gardener, and Knight 1991; Bybee 1991; Dickinson et al. 1997...

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Student Reactions to Just-in-Time Teaching’s Reading Assignments

This article describes how the Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm-up exercises were successfully adopted into a college-level physics course as a teaching tool. Students were found to be more engaged in lectures after completing the warm-up assignment...