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Project FLORA: Flora Love Our Revegetation Areas

A small school district in southwestern Texas comes together to protect its own backyard. In this project students collected native seed, built a greenhouse to propagate native plants from this seed, learned to identify disturbed areas within the par...

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Commentary: The Digital Divide

An opinion piece about the technology gap....

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Toying with Motion: Exploring Newton's laws of motion with student activities

Students are motivated to understand and apply Newton’s laws of motion by playing with toys. This activity allows students to demonstrate their understanding of the laws of motion and requires far more than just memorization. ...

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The Coast Guard Comes to Class

The United States Coast Guard offers many programs and resources without cost to teachers and their students. The author describes his visit to a sixth-grade classroom, where he demonstrates an oil spill and explains how pollution affects the marine ...

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Scope on the Skies: April's planetary line up

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. Sit back and enjoy the month of April as the five brightest planets are arranged over the western horizon at sunset....

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One Foot = One Cenxocpalli: Measuring in the Pre-Hispanic World

Discover measuring systems used by ancient civilizations while incorporating multicultural issues into your classroom. Students learn about ethnomathmatics, the study of math and science as they arise within a culture. ...

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Recycling the Paper Trail

Students use easy-to-obtain supplies and computer scratch paper to make their own paper. This papermaking activity, which is always popular with students, brings home the individual importance of recycling and its effect on the environment....

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Glow-in-the-Dark Science: Phosphorescent stars help students understand the wave-particle nature of light

In this activity students are able to explore the particle nature of light and calculate the energy of light. Students can see the star "glow" because the emssion of the star persists for several seconds (or even minutes) after the light source has b...

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Modeling Olympus Mons from the Earth

Compare mountains found on Earth and Mars by creating two-dimensional block models. Students will be amazed by the immensity of the sheild volcano Olympus Mons located on Mars....

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After the Bell: The wrap on raptors

Teachers and students can visit the Raptor Trust rehabilitation facility. either in person or via internet, to observe the captive birds....