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Getting More Mileage Out of Mousetrap Cars

Building and racing mousetrap cars is a common activity in many eighth- and ninth-grade physical science classrooms. However, once students have raced their cars, most mousetrap assignments come to an end. The project described here was developed to ...

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Teaching Through Trade Books: Fascinating Fossil Finds

This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column engages students in “unearthing” fossils and exploring the processes scientists use in uncovering these fascinating finds and interpreting Earth’s past. ...

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A Voyage through the Radio Universe

The Radio Astronomy Research Team from from Oil City Area Senior High School (OCHS) in Oil City, Pennsylvania, embarked on a special project titled “Mapping the Universe” at the start of the 2000 school year. For the project, students analyzed da...