All The Science Teacher resources

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Commentary: Science and Service Learning

An opinion piece about a successful service learning project in which students used research on plant types to bring a lively activity to local nursing home residents....

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Studying Science Teachers: Determining whether organization membership and national standards matter in the classroom

Individual teacher membership and use of the National Science Education Standards are vital to attaining the goal of an inquiry science experience for all students. Membership in professional organizations and NSES use are linked with desirable class...

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Idea Bank: Investigating Science Careers Online

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank features ways students can use the Internet to research careers in science and engineering. ...

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The Science-Mathematics Connection: Using technology in an interdisciplinary module

This workshop uses technology-based modules that emphasize multicultural instructional activities, materials, tools, and assessment for integrating concepts in Earth science, algebra, geometry, and statistics. Instruction in the culturally responsiv...

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Commentary: Building on Strengths

An opinion piece about being positive with students....

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Chemistry Rocks: Redox chemistry as a geologic tool

Teachers can use students’ interest in the color in rocks as a starting point for a redox chemistry lesson. In this activity, each group of students examines one or more of the rocks. By matching a rock’s color to a form of iron allows students t...

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Editor's Corner: Making a Difference

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue, as well as one of the authors sharing stories and background on her teaching career....

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Idea Bank: Building a Periodic Table

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, an introductory unit on the periodic table of elements is adapted for a blind physical science student, and this unique adaptation en...

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Issues in Sociobiology: The nature vs. nurture debate

The implications of recent advances in genetic science have been called “America’s next ethical war.” Teachers should be prepared to discuss the controversial and sensitive dimensions of these topics because citizens will be faced with hard dec...

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Technology-Based Learning: Using water studies as the basis for an alternative teaching strategy

The Technology-Based Learning in School Science (tBLISS) project was developed with two purposes in mind—to investigate the feasibility of implementing a technology-based science curriculum with a small group of teachers and students and to examine...

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Atomic Poetry: Using poetry to teach Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus

Most students regard literature and science as two separate subjects with no obvious connections to one another. This interdisciplinary, cross-curricular approach integrates the two to teach physical science students about atomic theory through Rober...