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Editor’s Corner: Science for All (March 2008)

This issue of The Science Teacher (TST) represents our 13th consecutive annual issue devoted to the theme “Science for All.” The theme serves as an umbrella for ideas and strategies to mitigate academic achievement gaps associated with ethnicity...

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Tried and True: Volcano résumés

Tired of building a paper mâché volcano to teach about plate tectonics? Do you want to connect science and writing? Then the volcano résumé project is perfect for you. This one-week, problem-based learning (PBL) project requires students to resea...

Journal Article

Can Trains Really Float?

Have you ever heard of a Maglev train? Who would be crazy enough to think that exploring how a high-tech train little known in the United States works with a group of fourth-grade students would yield understandings about the properties of magnetism,...

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Using Simple Machines to Leverage Learning

What would your students say if you told them they could lift you off the ground using a block and a board? Using a simple machine, they’ll find out they can, and they’ll learn about work, energy, and motion in the process! In addition, this inte...

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A Novel Lecture Series and Associated Outreach Program in the Environmental and Natural Sciences

To address the low priority given to university-level outreach, the authors created an outreach program that makes it easy for scientists to connect with the public, while at the same time providing effective transfer of scientific research results t...

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Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating Indigo Carmine Oxidation-Reduction Reactions—A Choreography for Chemical Reactions

The indigo carmine demonstration (Ferguson et al. 1973), also referred to as a traffic-light demonstration (Flinn Scientific 2007a), is an example of a set of oxidation-reduction reactions that occurs within one solution. This type of demonstration c...

Book Chapter

Science Beyond the Curriculum: Projects and Challenges

The National Science Education Standards and Benchmarks for Science Literacy stress the importance of creating science experiences that are linked to the real world, something that is familiar to students. Projects and challenges hold the potential f...

Journal Article

Science Sampler: The wonder of it all

Nature surrounds us with awe-inspiring events and elements. All too often, however, the beauty and intricacy of nature is lost on students who get bogged down with reading about it in textbooks rather than experiencing it. The simple pleasures of lea...

Journal Article

Science Safaris: Developing Bold Academic Explorers Outside the Science Classroom

Science, like most subjects, can only come alive when students are actively engaged in real-life pursuits that interest and challenge them (VanTassel-Baska and Bass 1998). Here the author describes how she was able to bring science to life for her mi...