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Naturalist Writers and Environmental Sentiments
Develop students' awareness and appreciation for the world around them through the written word. Using the work of naturalist writers such as John Muir, Rachel Carson, or Henry David Thoreau offers a refreshing complement to science learning. Sample ...
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Idea Bank: A Forgotten Resource
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank focuses on the one educational resource often overlooked—guest speakers. They can offer an excellent insight into science and science c...
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After the Bell: Newspaper science—Read all about it!
Newspapers that regularly feature science can be used to introduce students to current events. These resources can also lead the way to meeting the National Research Council's suggestions on helping to increase scientific literacy....
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Minimizing Misconceptions: Tools for identifying patterns of reasoning
By distinguishing clear patterns of reasoning, teachers can face the long list of student misconceptions without feeling overwhelmed. This article offers chemistry teachers a useful tool that describes eight thinking rules and examples of alternative...
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Sticking Together: A learning cycle investigation about water
Science educators are consistently challenged to seek ways to help students make meaning of difficult and often abstract concepts. This learning cycle investigation was designed to serve this purpose on important concepts about water, and to help st...
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The Whirl and Hurl: Demonstrating centripetal force in the classroom
Principles of physics are difficult for most students to grasp. That’s why “The Whirl and Hurl” machine and activity were developed—to demonstrate centripetal force in the classroom and teach students how to calculate distance traveled, circu...
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A Sweet Balance: A module activity for balancing chemical reactions
This module uses a relevant problem of baking sugar cookies to develop a basic understanding of balancing chemical reactions. It is designed to stimulate creativity and motivate students to become scientifically literate on chemical reaction balancin...
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Science Sampler: Feel the heat
This article features a simple game that can help students understand the nature of heat transfer through conduction....
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Tech Trek: Ready to navigate—Classroom GPS applications
The potential for enriched science instruction using GPS is virtually unlimited. An inexpensive GPS unit can help students prepare for the national and global dynamics of the twenty-first century, GPS models and applications are discussed....
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Names are vital. Names do more than allow us to pigeonhole things and give us relationships. They give us a sense of ownership. Once we put a name to things we get a sense that we understand something about the essence of the thing itself. Therefore,...