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Games Students Play: Teaming up in physics class leads to cooperative learning

The case for motivating students through cooperative learning has been made and supported throughout the last two decades. Two well-known cooperative learning techniques—Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) and Teams-Games-Tournament (TGT)—...

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Project Reptile!

Good teachers continually plan learning experiences to help young children make connections within and among areas of study (Zemelman, Daniel, and Hyde 1998). Integrating curriculum is important in helping children make these connections. Class proje...

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When a Hypothesis is <em>Not</em> an Educated Guess

The terms prediction and hypothesis are often used interchangeably, yet one term means to think about what might happen and the other means to think about why something will happen. Misuse of these terms may deprive students of the opportunity to thi...

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Dissect Your Squid and Eat It Too!

Studying an organism that lives in the ocean lends itself to many multidisciplinary studies, such as writing poetry about sea creatures, graphing fish harvests, and learning about cultures that depend heavily on the sea. As part of a study about cora...

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How a Dragon Gets its Wings: A fanciful approach to teaching meiosis

The process of meiosis and its contributon to genetic variation are important concepts. But they are challenging for students, many of whom confuse meiosis with mitosis because of the similar terminology and likenesses in how chromosomes align during...

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Eyes in the Sky: The Big Picture

Boost your students’ learning experience by using satellite imagery in the classroom. In the activity described here, students assume the roles of research scientists. They work in groups and analyze satellite imagery to investigate the effects of ...

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Chemistry on Camera: Integrating technology into the science laboratory

Identifying useful, effective, and feasible methods of integrating technology into science classrooms is very important and can be challenging. With this in mind, this article features a relevant, innovative lab exercise that promotes construction of...

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A Key to Science Learning

One way to help students develop their writing skills is through the “key-word process.” In this method, students select key words about a topic and then use those words to build their own sentences and paragraphs. The key-word process can be exp...

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Commentary: Wanted—Advocates for science laboratory safety

An opinion piece about the need for safety in school science laboratories and how it has dramatically increased over the past decade....

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Burning Questions About Calories

Encouraging students to define problems through asking questions about the topic has a positive impact on classroom morale. First, the teacher benefits from increased understanding of students’ knowledge and background. Second, because students hav...

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After the Bell: Turn any science topic into hands-on fun

Many students are turned off by science even before they get out of grade school. This articles focues on making science a discovery process—not just a result—by creative teaching methods and a positive philosophy of science education....

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Surveying Safety: How researchers addressed safety in science classrooms in Wisconsin

Safety is an essential ingredient in all facets of our lives and is especially important in today's educational settings. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction became very concerned when preliminary assessments of teacher understandings of s...

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Integration and Integrity

This article describes a successful partnership between a special education teacher and a mainstream teacher. As a result, every student became more aware of their own abilities, of the diversity of the people around them, and of the science curricul...

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Fact or Fiction? Female students learn to critically evaluate science on the Internet

To introduce students to computer technology, the authors used a web-based science project, “Tabloid Trash vs. Serious Science,” in several secondary science courses at Columbia School for Girls. Their intent was several-fold; given the growing u...

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Editor's Note (March 2001)

Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Dynamic Teachers Re-NEW with NASA

NASA’s Implementation Plan for Education provides support to in-service educators in the areas of technology and science. Some programs include financial support, while others require district or individual financial contributions. NASA teacher enh...

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Editor's Corner: Establishing a Multicultural Presence

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children—2001 (Books published in 2000)

The books that appear in this annotated bibliography were selected as outstanding children’s science trade books published in 2000. They are intended primarily for kindergarten through eighth grade. They were selected by members of a book review pa...