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Science Sampler: The biological budget
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Students often have difficulty grasping the complexity of ecosystems and the importance of biodiversity. The following activity applies students’ creativity and basic math skills to creating a sustainable and diverse…
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Idea Bank: The Snowball Questioning Method
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank highlights an efficient method of questioning students that brings quick feedback, revealing how well they…
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Point of View: Think Outside the Box: A Logic-Defying "Impossible" Solution
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses educating teachers about problem solving.
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Research and Teaching: Inquiry in the Community College Biology Lab
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A qualitative analysis of students’ reactions and outcomes to a long-term inquiry experience in a freshman biology course shows positive results. Students posed research questions and designed experiments. The analysis…
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One way for teachers to show a small specimen to an entire class is by placing the specimen in a small, transparent display case, such as a Petri dish. This allows students to closely observe the specimen and reduces…
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Local professors teamed up with a fourth-grade teacher to show students the similarities and differences between sedimentary rock layers and snow banks. Students observed and drew snow banks and explored the effects of…
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Scope on Safety: Digging up the dirt on soil safety
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Should middle school science teachers be concerned about students bringing in unknown sources of soil to work on in class as the activity suggests? The science is well intended, but is it safe? What are some possible…
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Since 2002, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado has been working to provide learning tools for students and teachers. The project has developed over 85 interactive simulations—or sims—…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Sharpening Your Senses
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Students’ fascination with the world around them can inspire numerous investigations about the five senses. This month's Teaching Through Trade Books column focuses on two books about the senses: My Five Senses and…
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Science Sampler: Why we have seasons and other common misconceptions
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The video, A Private Universe, engages students in the ideas regarding alternative conceptions. This video is effective in capturing preservice teachers’ attention and altering their own beliefs regarding alternative…
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The Dimensions of the Solar System
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A few new wrinkles have been added to the popular activity of building a scale model of the solar system. Students can learn about maps and scaling using easily accessible online resources that include satellite images…
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The implementation of a new first-semester general chemistry laboratory curriculum provided an opportunity to answer the following question: How does the degree of inquiry-based laboratory instruction impact student…
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Science Sampler: Engineering-A-Future for tomorrow's young women
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Engineering-A-Future (EAF) is an outreach program for middle school age girls. Through a collaborative effort of the Colleges of Engineering and Education at Tennessee Tech University (TTU), the participants experience…
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Can you imagine yourself in the outback or on a tropical island, using your scientific smarts to outwit all the others? Why not challenge students to use what you've taught them in a setting that tests their skills of…
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Guest Editorial: The Changing Landscape of Assessment
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An opinion piece about inquiry assessment.
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