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Research on how people learn and the incorporation of that research into lesson plans and curriculum demands that the highly successful 5E model be expanded to a 7E model. The 7E model proposes the addition of…
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Citizen Science in Your Own Backyard
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In this article the authors share some citizen science entomology investigations and suggest how to incorporate them as "backyard extensions" of your own classroom lessons.
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An In-Depth Exploration of Karst
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Exploring the fragile environment of Karst enables students to examine how Earth systems interact over time to create the spectacular landscape features and unique watersheds of Karst regions. It also will help students…
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Assessing Children’s Career Aspirations
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In the past several years, Science and Children has invited preservice and inservice teachers to participate in national studies of students’ ideas about scientists (Barman 1997), animals (Barman et al. 2000), and…
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Science Shorts: Blood in a Bag
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This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. In this month’s issue models representing organ systems are explored.
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Creating Science Assessments That Support Inquiry
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This article discusses the resources available for teachers to apply higher-level thinking and cognitive complexity to their instruction and assessments.
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How a Dragon Gets its Wings: A fanciful approach to teaching meiosis
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The process of meiosis and its contributon to genetic variation are important concepts. But they are challenging for students, many of whom confuse meiosis with mitosis because of the similar terminology and likenesses…
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This memorable activity creatively applied students’ knowledge of ants—and it all started with a wonderful Lawrence Hall GEMS guide and a teacher with a sweet tooth. The students learned that the success of the colony…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Threads of change
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Egg, larva, pupa, adult, done! How easy it would be if teaching students to grasp the nature and role of change was that simple! Getting students to observe and attend to the changes around them—in their natural…
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Teaching through Trade Books: Rocking Around the Rock Cycle
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“What type of rock is this?” is a common question spoken by all children at some point in their young lives. Many students have rocks of all shapes and sizes in their “collections.” In this column, young students will…
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Methods and Strategies: From Landfills to Robots
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Third-grade students work like engineers as they learn about recycling and reusing materials, encouraging change at home.
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Idea Bank: Vectors on the Basketball Court
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An Idea Bank published in the April/May 2009 issue of The Science Teacher describes an experiential physics lesson on vectors and vector addition (Brown 2009). Like its football predecessor, the basketball-based…
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Safer Science: Consumer “Science” in Chem Labs?
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English, mathematics, social science, and other nonscience classes are being held in science laboratories during unassigned laboratory time. However, science laboratories are unsafe places. They contain hazardous…
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Scope on the Skies: Summer Skies (2009)
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This summer the planet parade shifts to the morning skies as most of the visible planets are arranged over the southeastern to southwestern horizons before the Sun rises. And only one planet, Saturn, graces the evening…
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Society for College Science Teachers: Cheatin' Ain't the Cowboy Way
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As academics, we are generally appalled by students who cheat or plagiarize, perhaps because it violates our sense of right and wrong. As educators who are interested in improving college science teaching, we need be…
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