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If we want our students to become capable practitioners of scientific inquiry, we should not stop at providing opportunities to do inquiry. We need to be intentional about assessing and teaching the competencies…
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With the increasing popularity of energy drinks, I wonder—are these drinks safe? How do they affect teens?
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The Building Migratory Bridges (BMB) program—a collaboration between the Marvelwood School and Audubon Sharon in Connecticut and Conservation Research Education Action (CREA), a U.S. not-for-profit in Panama—uses…
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Scope on the Skies: Dance of the planets and our Moon
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This summer, the visible planets will put on quite a display, giving us not only the opportunity to compare relative orbital motions, but to also see some beautiful arrangements and conjunctions among the planets, stars…
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Science Sampler: A simple assessment solution
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This formative-assessment program is based on two key ideas about assessment. First, thoughtful educators use assessment results to revise their instructional approaches so that assessment is no longer a product, but a…
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This cooperative activity presents middle school students with the opportunity to explore and discover, as well as enjoy their own communications with one another. By employing reading, writing, and history as an…
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Guest Editorial: Reflections on a Classroom Managed Through Inquiry: Moving Past "Nondiscipline"
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An opinion piece about how class management using inquiry engages students in meaningful science activities and effectively reduces discipline problems.
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Favorite Demonstration: Forensic Analysis Demonstration via Hawaii Five-O
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The interdisciplinary nature of a forensics-based demonstration encourages science majors to move beyond their own narrow fields of study. The demonstration described in this column emphasizes the interconnectedness of…
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Modeling Geyser Eruptions in the Classroom
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Watching Old Faithful transform from a smoldering mound to an explosive 50-meter high geyser is enough to generate awe in any observer. Geysers provide an excellent opportunity to explore th Earth system as described by…
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Point of View: Death by PowerPoint?
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Presentation software is here to stay and, rather than avoid it, the authors recommend its judicious use, particularly for what it does best—provide a simple platform for projecting a rich assortment of images. Although…
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To circumvent the problem of academic dishonesty through the mass administration of multiple-choice exams in college classrooms, a study was conducted from 2003 to 2005, in which multiple versions of the same…
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Scope on the Skies: End of the line for a star like ours
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Stars of different masses have varying life spans, with the more massive stars “burning out” more quickly than stars of lower masses. How or what they do when they burn out also varies, depending on the mass of the star…
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Research and Teaching: Attendance and Performance
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Class attendance by most students in nonmajors science classes is influenced by whether they receive points for attending class. If students do not get points for attending class, there is a strong positive correlation…
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Science 2.0: Invitation to Inquiry
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Too often, students are not engaged in authentic questioning. Dan Meyer, a math educator, explains, “Our curricula are full of pseudoproblems wrapped in pseudocontext. We ask students to grapple with problems that only…
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Building a Better Biology Lab? Testing Tablet PC Technology in a Core Laboratory Course
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Tablet PC technology can enliven the classroom environment because it is dynamic, interactive, and “organic,” relative to the rigidity of chalkboards, whiteboards, overhead projectors, and PowerPoint presentations.…
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