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Idea Bank: Building a Periodic Table
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, an introductory unit on the periodic table of elements is adapted for a blind physical science student, and this unique adaptation en...
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After the Bell: Bridging the Knowledge Gap
Driving over bridges may be a daily activity for many of us. But, do we ever consider the scientific factors that keep bridges intact and functioning when we go over them? This article offers suggestions for how to begin a scientific exploration of b...
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Creative Writing and the Water Cycle
Creative writing provides one strategy for helping students combine their powers of imagination with their arsenal of knowledge. Teachers also can use creative writing exercises to assess student understanding of science content. Use the story, “Th...
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Issues in Sociobiology: The nature vs. nurture debate
The implications of recent advances in genetic science have been called “America’s next ethical war.” Teachers should be prepared to discuss the controversial and sensitive dimensions of these topics because citizens will be faced with hard dec...
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Exploring the Evolution of Plate Tectonics
Students often view science, especially Earth science, as being “set in stone.” They don’t realize that scientific theories are continually being developed, refined, and discarded as new information is discovered. The American Geological Instit...
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Technology-Based Learning: Using water studies as the basis for an alternative teaching strategy
The Technology-Based Learning in School Science (tBLISS) project was developed with two purposes in mind—to investigate the feasibility of implementing a technology-based science curriculum with a small group of teachers and students and to examine...
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Atomic Poetry: Using poetry to teach Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus
Most students regard literature and science as two separate subjects with no obvious connections to one another. This interdisciplinary, cross-curricular approach integrates the two to teach physical science students about atomic theory through Rober...