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Editor's Corner: Get Real

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

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Scope on the Skies: Exploring the Red Planet

The launch of the Mars Odyssey 2001 signaled the beginning of a revised plan for the robotic exploration of Mars, the Red Planet. NASA detailed an exploration plan that will span the next two decades. Using new and developing technologies, these inve...

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Genetics of Sesame Street^TM Characters

By enlisting the of Elmo, Zoe, Grover, and friends, the author brought a genetics unit to life. In this week-long unit, the students (1) create a gene map for a particular Sesame Street character, (2) move the resulting chromosomes through the steps ...

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Active Learning in the Lab: Positively influencing student attitudes toward chemistry

One of the greatest challenges in education is finding methods of making learning meaningful for students while effectively preparing them for the workplace. One way to meet this challenge is to actively involve students in learning allowing them to ...

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The Virtual Solar System Project

In the course, Virtual Solar System, students construct models of the solar system in an inquiry framework to learn fundamental astronomical concepts. This paper describes the course, the underlying principles for its design, the core technology that...

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The Ants Have It!

This memorable activity creatively applied students’ knowledge of ants—and it all started with a wonderful Lawrence Hall GEMS guide and a teacher with a sweet tooth. The students learned that the success of the colony depends on each ant doing it...

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Commentary: To Err Is . . .

An opinion piece about teachers making mistakes and how students will learn to accept failed demonstrations and be challenged by them....

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Commentary: On Symmetry

An opinion piece about symmetry stating that it has been increasingly recognized by physicists as fundamental to the forumlation of the laws of physics....

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Classroom Catapults

"Wow, our plastic load flew 540 centimeters! This is so cool!" An interdisciplinary unit on catapults was responsible for the excitement and enthusiasm generated in the author’s classroom. In their social studies class, students learned about the M...

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Research and Teaching: Raising Success Rates in Freshman Chemistry

Using data collected from student records and surveys, this article examines the likelihood of student success in a spring section of freshman chemistry populated by many students deemed at risk of failure. The study also considers the relationship b...

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Action-Based Research Teams: Collaborating to Improve Science Instruction

Action-based research teams, a partnership of scientists, science educators, master teachers, graduate students and undergraduates, have been established at Purdue University to improve undergraduate instruction in the sciences. Action-based research...

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Meteorology Online: Weather forecasting using the Internet

Today, worldwide up-to-the-minute weather information is just a few mouse clicks away on the Internet. The trick is to apply this information in ways that make us think and learn more effectively. Meteorology embodies elements of physics, geography, ...

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Changing the Culture of Undergraduate Science Teaching

Faculty at several Arizona institutions collaborated to change the culture of science teaching by introducing comprehensive and systemic reforms in undergraduate science and math courses. Preliminary measurements of the effectiveness of the reformed ...