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Scope on the Skies: Summer Skies (2009)

This summer the planet parade shifts to the morning skies as most of the visible planets are arranged over the southeastern to southwestern horizons before the Sun rises. And only one planet, Saturn, graces the evening skies. All, with the exception ...

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Science Sampler: No excuses

Kyle Maynard’s book entitled No Excuses is an inspirational story that shows how a positive attitude can lead to great achievements, even when against the odds. Here the author describes how she uses Maynard’s “no excuses” philosophy as the o...

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Managing Inquiry-Based Classrooms

Though it may seem that classroom management comes naturally to some teachers, upon closer examination you’ll probably discover that preparation and adaptation are more important than any innate ability when it comes to successful classroom managem...

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Science Sampler: How to enjoy your students while your students enjoy science

Every teacher’s goal should be to create a classroom atmosphere where students know one another, feel safe both physically and emotionally, and enjoy interacting. By creating a good rapport with your students as well as a positive environment in wh...

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Science Sampler: Teaching—A reflective process

In this article, the authors describe how they used formative assessments to ferret out possible misconceptions among middle-school students in a unit about weather-related concepts. Because they teach fifth- and eighth-grade science, this assessment...

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Current Research: Summer Reading Suggestions

To supplement your summer reading, NSTA’s affiliates would like to suggest some recent articles on education research. These articles cover a variety of topics that include diversity, technology, and science teacher retention. The abstracts of thes...

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Classroom Management: Setting Up the Classroom for Learning

Student learning is directly related to classroom control established the first week of school (Wong and Wong 2001)—what you do the first day counts, and what you do the first 10 minutes counts even more. This article shares the advanced planning a...

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Guest Editorial: Would you like to be a student in your classroom?

Why do some teachers experience successful teaching in the middle level year after year, while others consider an eighth-grade teaching assignment equivalent to a sentence of hard labor? Why is it that some teachers and their students look forward to...

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Solar Paths: An International and Integrated Look at the Sun and Seasons

Some of the most difficult concepts for students to understand in Earth science are the ideas and explanations related to the Sun and seasons. The daily rotation of the Earth causes day and night, and the differences of how it is observed at differen...

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Tech Trek: TeacherTube for Science

Following in the footsteps of YouTube, TeacherTube is a website where teachers can access a trove of videos that can be used in the classroom to improve instruction. The inclusion of YouTube as a venue in the presidential debates of 2008 has brought ...