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Reading, Writing, and Comprehending: Encouraging active reading in the science classroom

A wide variety of before-, during-, and after-reading methods stimulate students to become better readers. The author shares strategies acquired from professional development courses that teachers can use to improve reading comprehension and incorpor...

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Turf Protecting Toxins

Allelopathy is a naturally occurring process by which chemicals produced by a plant have a detrimental effect on competing plants. This activity explores how trees protect their limited resource through chemical warfare....

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Investigating Microgravity: Using inquiry, students study objects in a weightless environment

In classroom discussions, students often have misconceptions about how objects behave in a weightless environment. This article provides instruction on how to create a weightless environment in the classroom to enable students to examine the behavior...

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Idea Bank: Sticky Slime

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank learn about other potential uses for slime, in addition to polymer chemistry and materials engineering....

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After the Bell: Measure for measure

Students are asked to measure objects almost every day, but a number of students omit units when providing an answer. In this article learn why units are so important....

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Start Young!

If we want to encourage children to enter into scientific fields in the future, we need to give them a helping hand while they are most open-minded and curious. In this article, the author shares anecdotal stories from the scientific community that r...

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Science Sampler: Role playing in the science classroom

By presenting material in a unique and amusing way, students will remember the material better and comprehend more....

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Research and Teaching: Encouraging Female Undergraduate Students

Two case studies of undergraduate chemistry departments highlight differences between a department graduating a high percentage of women and one that is not, and provide possible ways in which departments can attract and retain more female majors. A ...

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Working as a Team: Preparing a Problem Awareness File

A generic teaching format in which students actively participate in a whole-class collaborative-learning experience is described. The entire class, divided into groups, made a joint effort to overcome a hypothetical outbreak of a new plant disease. H...