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Mind Mapping: A Graphic Organizer for the Pedagogical Toolbox

Mind mapping is a graphic organizer that can be used to generate ideas, take notes, develop concepts, and improve memory. In this article, the authors describe how mind mapping was introduced to a group of sixth graders who used the technique through...

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Commentary: Shell Awardee—She Sells Science to Students

An opinion piece about the "Shell Science Teaching Award" given to an outstanding classroom teacher who significantly impacts students through exemplary science teaching....

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Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating a Thermodynamics Fountain

Cryogenic materials, mainly liquefied and solidified gases, are probably the most fascinating materials to use for demonstrating chemical reactions to introductory college students. A popular series of articles (Blachley 1997; Coppola et al. 1994; Ha...

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Teaching Demands verses Research Productivity

Faculty in undergraduate institutions are scholars and need to be actively engaged in research. They must also publish and get grants to be promoted and tenured. The strong demand on their time for teaching and college services, however, leaves them ...

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Science Sampler: Familiar toys and abstract ideas

In this article, learn how to use some toys to teach students various abstract science concepts, such as ratios, percentages, and conservation of mass....

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It's Alive: Students observe air-water interface samples rich with organisms

After collaboration with a university researcher, students found that the air-water interface was a thin biofilm on the surface of still water composed of a rich variety of living microorganisms. Samples exposed to day-night intervals and in total da...

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A Pond Investigation

What lives in the pond? Did frogs hop from another pond to ours? How do tadpoles get into the pond? And Could our pond be polluted? These questions were addressed in a professional development program that takes advantage of a school pond to teach en...