Science Scope—September 2019

Tried and True Teaching Ideas addresses classic demonstrations and experiments that have been proven to work time and time again in your classroom. We share new twists on familiar activities and provide the science community with fresh ideas for the teaching toolbox.

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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...