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A Sweet Balance: A module activity for balancing chemical reactions
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This module uses a relevant problem of baking sugar cookies to develop a basic understanding of balancing chemical reactions. It is designed to stimulate creativity and motivate students to become scientifically…
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Scope on Safety: Chemical sensitivity
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Teachers and students are subjected to myriad indoor and outdoor air pollutants such as arsenic, asbestos, benzene, formaldehyde, isocyanates, lead, and a host of others from materials used in classrooms, laboratories,…
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Creating and Delivering Differentiated Science Content Through Wikis
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Have students contribute to the learning process by creating a classroom wiki.
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Post-Genome Era Pedagogy: How a BS Biotechnology Program Benefits the Liberal Arts Institution
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Genomics profoundly affects society, because genome sequence information is widely used in such areas as genetic testing, genomic medicine/vaccine development, and so forth. Therefore, a responsibility to modernize…
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In this activity students are able to explore the particle nature of light and calculate the energy of light. Students can see the star "glow" because the emssion of the star persists for several seconds (or even…
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The Hudson River Watershed contains a variety of geologic, topographic, climatic, and hydrologic features and a diversity of land-use patterns—making it an ideal model for studying human impact on the coastal…
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Methods and Strategies: The Reflective Assessment Technique
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Teachers often rely on student questions, their observations of students at work, and their own intuition to monitor how well students are learning. However, the authors found that teachers learn more about their…
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Point of View: A Lateral View of Darwin
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Last year, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin (1809–1882); it has been approximately 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species on the theory of evolution by natural…
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Transformative Professional Development: Inquiry-Based College Science Teaching Institutes
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Two summer institutes had the overall goal of promoting learning and practice of inquiry-based college science teaching. They involved a collaborative and active learning format for participants that involved all phases…
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Flooded! An Investigation of Sea-Level Rise in a Changing Climate
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Explore how melting ice sheets affect global sea levels. Sea-level rise (SLR) is a rise in the water level of the Earth's oceans. There are two major kinds of ice in the polar regions: sea ice and land ice. Land ice…
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Editor's Note: Happy New Year and Welcome to the New Millennium
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Working as a Team: Preparing a Problem Awareness File
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A generic teaching format in which students actively participate in a whole-class collaborative-learning experience is described. The entire class, divided into groups, made a joint effort to overcome a hypothetical…
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Modeling Olympus Mons from the Earth
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Compare mountains found on Earth and Mars by creating two-dimensional block models. Students will be amazed by the immensity of the sheild volcano Olympus Mons located on Mars.
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Green Science: Organic Milk—Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side?
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This column focuses on issues related to environmentally friendly and sustainable science. In this month’s column we look at the costs and benefits of producing organic milk.
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Humble Advice for New Science Teachers
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By understanding the relationship between practical knowledge and teaching techniques, new teachers can improve upon the learning experiences of students. The author shares approaches to teaching that she found…
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