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The Poetry of Science: Differentiating Instruction Through Poetry

Building literacy in playful, meaningful ways....

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Teaching Through Trade Books: How Plants Use Energy to Grow

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature....

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Tech Talk: UDL Strategies With Technology

This column describes how teachers can integrate innovative educational technology in their classroom....

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Science 101: Does a Force on an Object Always Result in Motion?

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers....

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Engineering Encounters: Planting the Seeds of Engineering

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering....

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Methods and Strategies: Responsive Teaching

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching....

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Teaching Teachers: Theory to Practice

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers....

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Teaching Natural Selection Ambitiously

Using Bernard Kettlewell’s peppered moths study as an anchor for Ambitious Science Teaching (AST)...

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A Particle Model for Density

Emphasis on the particle nature of everyday matter can improve student understanding of density...

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Science-Based Serendipitous Events

Students teach the class about historic scientific inventions...

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Blowing Up Demos

Making demos more effective...

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Making in the Middle: Teacher-tested tips for integrating 3-D printing technologies into the science classroom

Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more...

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Teacher's Toolkit: Strategies for co-teaching and teacher collaborations

How-to strategies and classroom management...

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From the Editor's Desk: Gifted and Advanced Learners: The Forgotten Minority?

Science Scope's editor introduces the current issue....

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Disequilibrium: Bringing respiration to light

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions...

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Citizen Science: What are your pipes made of? Find out with Crowd the Tap citizen science

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions...

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Science for All: Making it work: Incorporating design thinking into all areas of instruction to fit the needs of unique learners

Strategies for increasing student engagement...

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Classic Lessons 2.0: Taking the plunge! The Barbie bungee

Updating perennial classroom favorites...

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Interdisciplinary Ideas: Data literacy 101: What do we really mean by “data”?

Bringing other subjects into the classroom...

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Scope on the Skies: Hurricane Season

Astronomy throughout the year...

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Virtual Chemistry

Using the PhET pH scale simulation and the 5E Model to enhance students’ pH understanding ...

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Modeling for Ecological Engineering

Students create iterative models to make sense of pine beetle outbreaks in North America...

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Watered-Down Evidence

Using water activities to allow students to construct their own explanations...

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The Migratory Patterns of Birds of Prey

Using scientific data to inform students about the ecological profile of the broadwinged hawk (Buteo platypterus)...

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Explanatory Thinking Using Mobile Devices in a Nonscience Majors Biology Course

This article describes a course redesign to enhance explanatory thinking, engagement in scientific modeling to explain phenomena, application to the real world, and the use of an Explain Everything application as a modeling tool....

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Launching Sustainability Leadership: Long-Term Impacts on Educational and Career Paths in Undergraduate Research Experiences

This exploratory study examines the potential of UREs for developing sustainability-minded professionals to address our increasingly serious and complex global environmental issues....

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Island Ecology for Educators: An Interdisciplinary Course Bridging Science and Education Through Interactive Community Partnerships

The authors present a 5-week interdisciplinary summer course, Island Ecology for Educators, designed for both undergraduate and graduate students in the environmental studies and education departments....

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Faculty Adoption of Active Learning Strategies via Paired Teaching: Conclusions From Two Science Departments

The authors offer recommendations to universities interested in establishing a paired teaching program and to faculty members preparing to pair-teach....

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Case Study: An Introduction to Biological Research Course for Undergraduate Biology Students

The authors describe a seminar course for firstyear university students designed as an introduction to biological research....

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Point of View: Chinese Undergraduates in U.S. Science Programs: Challenge and Opportunity

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community....

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Two-Year Community: Editorial: Two-Year Colleges (TYCs) are Essential in Science Education Research and TYC faculty and Students Should Get Involved

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community....

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Research and Teaching: A Three-Year Retrospective Analysis Comparing Student Retention of Human Physiology Concepts in Flipped, Lecture, and Two-Stage Cooperative Testing Classrooms

This retrospective study investigated the effectiveness of an active approach to assessment (two-stage cooperative testing) as a means of improving student retention of key physiologic concepts....

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Research and Teaching: Micro-Agency: Measuring the Initiation of Agency Within Science Classes

This retrospective study investigated the effectiveness of an active approach to assessment (two-stage cooperative testing) as a means of improving student retention of key physiologic concepts....