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Scope on Safety: Test Your Metal (Safety Knowledge)
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the safety of various metals commonly used in middle school science lab activities.
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Methods and Strategies: A Science Lesson or Language Lesson?
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue covers using the 5R Instructional Model during a unit on soil erosion.
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Science Is for the Birds: Promoting Standards-Based Learning Through Backyard Birdwatching
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Backyard bird watching can be a means for promoting authentic research projects in middle level science. Cornell University's Project FeederWatch provides research protocols for measuring diversity, distribution, and…
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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Editor's Corner: The Answer to Extra Credit
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the answer to extra credit assignments.
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The three “legs” on which science instruction rests are the content of science, process of science, and the nature of science. Each leg performs its own function and need not be competitive with the others. This article…
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Editor's Corner: Earth and Space
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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The Learning Cycle and Instructional Conversations
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Engaging students in instructional conversations creates opportunities for discovering and internalizing the critical attributes of a concept. In this article, the authors will identify questioning practices for the…
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Much research supports the conclusion that most students do not take accurate and thorough notes. The interactive lecture notebook is prepared on a computer so changes and corrections can be made easily, and students…
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Scope on the Skies: The equinox
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With the vernal, or March equinox at hand, now is the perfect time to do some myth-busting with your students by exploring the popular notion that a raw egg will only balance on its end on the equinox. This month’s…
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Editor's Corner: Reading, Writing, and Science
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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Science Shorts: Solar Pizza Friday
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In an effort to bridge the gap between science and technology and its effects on everyday life, this lesson engages students in a study of solar energy and technological design. Students make real world connections and…
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Editor’s Note: Classification Matters
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Classification skills, so foundational to science, must be taught. While children have a passion and drive to organize and categorize their experiences, sometimes the way they organize them doesn’t lead to a worthwhile…
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Identification of Minerals... There Has to Be a Better Way
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"You Be the Geologist" is an adaptation of the traditional, teacher-centered method of mineral identification. This activity requires students to mimic the work of a geologist attempting to identify unknown mineral…
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Every Day Science: September 2009
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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