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[A] major goal for science education should be to provide all students with the background to systematically investigate issues related to their per...
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The Science Teacher—May/June 2021
May/June 2021: Data and Media Literacy Volume 88, Number 5 We live in a world transformed by data....
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The Science Teacher—March/April 2021
Volume 88, Number 4, March/April 2021 Technology Innovations in Science Teaching This issue of The Science Teacher focuses on technological in...
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The Science Teacher—November/December 2020
Volume 88, Number 2 Interdisciplinary Science ...
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The Science Teacher—September/October 2020
Volume 88, Number 1 Evaluating Scientific Claims ...
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The Science Teacher—July/August 2020
Volume 87, No. 9 Equity for All How can we, as science educators, erase inequitable practices in our teaching? Digital Edition ...
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The Science Teacher—April/May 2020
Nature and the Environment Volume 87, No. 8 Digital Edition ...
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The Science Teacher—March 2020
Volume 87, Number 7 Making science come alive and having students address critical social issues creates a more socially just environment...
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The Science Teacher—February 2020
Volume 87, Number 6 The word assessment conjures up many questions for science teachers. Is it a necessary evil? When is it helpful and benefic...
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The Science Teacher—January 2020
Volume 87, Number 5 Fake news. Pseudoscience. Bad Science. Never before has so much information, both good and bad, been availab...
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The Science Teacher—November/December 2019
Volume 87, Number 4 Learning on Personal Devices Tablets, cell phones, and other handheld devices have become increasingly popular tools to ...
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The Science Teacher—October 2019
Teaching the periodic table is a central part of chemistry, whether it involves memorizing the symbols of the elements, learning about the properties ...
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The Science Teacher—September 2019
Our legacy as science teachers revolves around the memories we make with our students. Make memories. Leave a legacy. ...
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The Science Teacher—August 2019
As early as 1896, Swedish Nobel Prize winner Svante Arrhenius presented a hypothesis demonstrating that doubling the carbon dioxide content in Earth�...
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013) weave connections to the nature of science into every standard. The NGSS note that “Sc...