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To summarize the author’s answer to this question, effective questions are those that lead, eventually, to answers that indicate the student understands what’s going on beyond a terse answer that might just be memorized…
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Favorite Demonstration: E-Concept Mapping
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Not all demonstrations involve using exciting visual displays of one or a series of scientific principles. Demonstrations can be as simple as showing the interrelationship between scientific concepts or principles using…
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This article describes a learning experience that follows an alternate approach to integrating science and literacy. Teachers use a narrative to encourage children to use their imaginations in learning to describe…
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: The Beauty of Bell Ringers
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue discusses tactics to have a good start each day at the beginning of class.
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In an effort to involve students in research, writing, and the use of technology, faculty at Middle Tennessee State University developed Scientia, an electronic journal devoted to publishing student research. This…
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Photographing Wildlife: Observing wildlife with an inexpensive camera
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This activity can produce meaningful learning by improving students' skills in planning, problem solving, and decision making, as well as to serve as a natural springboard for journal and story writing. A great project…
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Methods and Strategies: Developing Investigative Skills Purposefully
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Members of a team of educators and university students participating in the project, Pittsburgh Partnership for Energizing Science in Urban Schools, addressed the issue of helping students develop investigative skills…
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A partnership brought a community together for a science night that included a planetarium, telescopes, and science activity centers.
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Science Sampler: Periodic Table
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Teaching the periodic table can be a mundane task filled with repetition and rote memorization. The techniques for engaging activities outlined in this article will help students become familiar with the periodic table…
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Plants play an essential role in daily life, making them a natural subject of study for a standards-based unit in the elementary science curriculum. One creative way to give students direct experience with living plants…
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The science education community has embraced no idea more widely than “inquiry,” or “inquiry-based instruction.” In fact, developing an inquiry-based science program is the central tenet of the National Science…
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Astrobiology is a relatively new field of study in science, one that has found a home in the curriculum of many universities. At the middle level, this multidisciplinary field is an exciting mix of topics and questions…
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Editor's Note (September 2006)
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Investigation skills are taught for several reasons--to help students become better thinkers and problem solvers; to help them be better versed in the nature of scientific work; and to help them remember content and…
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Science Sampler: Collecting artifacts
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A new science teacher commissioned students to help build a collection of artifacts related to science. As the project evolved, the teacher was able to cover material across the curriculum and show how closely different…
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The New Teacher’s Toolbox: Conquering the “So What Now?” Moment
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The first years of teaching can be tough: Getting to know a new school, new students, and what really works in the classroom can be a lot to handle! In this new column, Michael Romano shares some insight from his first…
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