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What's Bugging You?

"'Ooh, these things give me the willies, and I am not getting near them." "Wonder what those things are and what they eat?" Statements like these were heard amongst preservice students as they embarked on "bug" research. This article offers insight...

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Knowing When You Don't Know

This article describes an alternative way of testing--a performance assessment--that is different both in process and goals from typical tests, but closer to what teachers believe assessment should be. Teachers who have helped to create, refine, and ...

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Collaboration with Community Partners

Collaborations with community partners make problem-based learning experiences more authentic and exciting for students while ensuring that the experience is consistent with the community’s needs and interests. The authors describe a problem-based ...

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Editor's Corner: Community Collaboration

Science activities that take students outside the school walls can combine the best aspects of service to the community, problem-based learning, and lessons in good citizenship. Over the past half-decade, The Science Teacher (TST) has published more ...