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As teachers, we are given quite a list of duties to fulfill. It is tempting to take the easy way and plan your lessons for next week during your planning period. However, to be a truly dynamic teacher you must do more. In science, dynamic teachers ha...
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Libros de Ciencias en Español (2001)
From well-designed board books that introduce preschoolers to animals and their young to lighthearted explanations of survival and extinction, from a poetic narrative about the sense of smell to a humorous introduction to the conveniences of cyberspa...
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The Doherty Experience at SEA (Sea Education Association) is a three-week program that involves two sessions of preparatory classes ashore in nautical science and oceanography and concludes with a nine-day sea voyage. While at sea, the teachers are d...
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An opinion piece about how Detroit teachers discovered that partnering with volunteer engineers from business and industry helped maximize student learning....
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Big Picture Science: Uncovering teaching strategies for underrepresented groups
Some experts suggest that people who are underrepresented in science often have difficulty expressing their ideas and participating in classrooms where traditional methods of instruction are used because they may feel uncomfortable with the limited r...
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Commentary: Defining Multicultural Science Education
An opinion piece about a multicultural science classroom and how we provide science education for all students....
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Gyotaku—The Japanese art of fish printing—evolved in Japan more than one hundred years ago as a means for fishermen to record and document the size of their catches. Today, fish printing provides an excellent classroom activity to introduce the t...
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Forces at Work: The Top 5 Reasons for Belonging to a Professional Organization
Although we all interact within our classrooms and with our students all of the time, we also need the dynamic of peer interaction. This article describes the benefits of participating in a professional organization for science teachers, whether it b...
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As educators, we must be willing to reinvent our worlds as we learn new things; to re-examine our conceptions as we encounter new views; and to re-evaluate our own subjective interactions with the new material. As part of a pilot Earthwatch-Conservat...
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“If I ever get as burnt out as Mr. Jones down the hall,” commented a teacher I admire to a group of us novices, someone please tell me, and I will get out of teaching.” To avoid faring like “Mr. Jones,” read the following ideas to maintain ...
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The Seven Cs strategy described in this article is a small but very practical start to addressing the needs of students. The practices are divided into seven categories: community, curriculum, constructivist connections, confidence, competence, compu...
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Science of the Maya: Teaching ethnoscience in the classroom
Ethnoscience is empirical knowledge of the world held by indigenous people, reflecting their thought processes, values, concepts, and experiences. Drawing on the work of Heinberg (1994), five premises may be identified in Mayan ethnoscience: (1) ever...
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Idea Bank: Tips and techniques for creative teaching
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, learn about the periodic table card trick using a half-deck of cards, fun and games science, and integrating technology....