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Sticking Together: A learning cycle investigation about water
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Science educators are consistently challenged to seek ways to help students make meaning of difficult and often abstract concepts. This learning cycle investigation was designed to serve this purpose on important…
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Creativity in the Science Classroom
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Though many teachers would like to incorporate creative activities into their teaching, there are few practical suggestions to help them accomplish this goal (Yager 2000). In this article, the authors introduce four…
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Learning Genetics with Paper Pets
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By the end of the eighth grade, students are expected to have a basic understanding of the mechanisms of basic genetic inheritance (NRC 1996). However, these concepts can be difficult to teach. To make these concepts…
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The author describes how to facilitate the inquiry experience so that teachers can generate wonderful settings for students to develop their own ideas regarding science.
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After the Bell: Measure for measure
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Students are asked to measure objects almost every day, but a number of students omit units when providing an answer. In this article learn why units are so important.
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Teach students about microbes, with an emphasis on those that cause sickness, and introduce them to careers in epidermiology with the simulated outbreak.
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Science Sampler: The science of skin color
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For many teachers of life science, one of the favorite parts of the curriculum is the unit on heredity. Students love to discover how and from whom they’ve inherited certain traits such as tongue rolling, earlobe shape…
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Using the Past in Class: Learning from historical models of cell membranes
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Studying the history of science shows students how science is a process that occurs over time. A sample lesson in which secondary life science students examine the history of the development of the cell membrane model…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Representing Microscopic Life
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses the formative assessment probe "Pond Water," which reveals how elementary children will often apply what they know about animal…
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Science Sampler: Using science journals to encourage all students to write
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It seems that everyone is using science journals or notebooks lately. As middle school science teachers, the authors use science journals as a tool to enhance students' knowledge and understanding of content and…
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After the Bell: Radio astronomers for a day
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In this activity, students take a field trip to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia. This interactive field experience helped make science come alive and helped convey the nature…
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Science, Technology, and YA Lit
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This article provides three engaging projects science teachers can use to help students develop environmental consciousness and global awareness using young adult literature and technology.
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The students at Xavier University's general biology course learn about evolution by ascending a stairway in a science building. Along the stairwell walls students examine fossils and explanatory texts while the…
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The Prepared Practitioner: Summer Reading
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With summer in full swing, now is a great time to recommend summer reading about science and scientists. Since space is limited, let’s dive right in!
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Idea Bank: Diving Into Professional Development
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The challenge of the Research and Education: Volcanoes, Exploration and Life (REVEL) Project, sponsored by the University of Washington School of Oceanography, is to teach, energize, and reinvigorate teachers, so that…
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