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Savvy Consumers Through Science
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Is Bounty the "quicker picker upper?" Are expensive shampoos better? Are all antacids the same? Fourth grade students posed and answered these questions during a "Consumer Product Testing" unit in which they designed…
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Student Teaching Tools: Key factors to remember in the classroom
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Upon starting the actual process of teaching you can never be completely prepared for the experience. This author identifies four key factors that will help you through student teaching: organization, confidence,…
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Cell Structure Study: Students use microscopes and digital images to examine <i>Elodea</i>
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A common lab exercise in biology involves an examination of the fresh water plant Elodea. This article presents a modification to the traditional exercise using microscopes and digital images. This is particularly good…
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More and more of today's computer users need to keep pace with improved technology by enhancing their proficiency beyond word processing or spreadsheet applications to employ more sophisticated operating systems. The…
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Assessing Students’ Ideas About Plants
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This article contains an interview protocol that will help you gather information about your elementary students’ ideas related to plants. By implementing the protocol, you will be able to discover what kinds of…
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Tech Trek: Flash forward to problem-based science
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Read about The Reconstructors, a website designed to combine aspects of problem-based learning and science standards and deliver them over the Web via interesting multimedia.
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Teaching With Crystal Structures
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Classifying a particle requires an understanding of the type of bonding that exists within and among the particles, which requires an understanding of atomic structure and electron configurations, which requires an…
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Whiteboarding Your Way to Great Student Discussions
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Dry erase boards, sometimes called whiteboards, are a powerful tool for facilitating discussion within groups of students. When each group receives a large whiteboard and specific instructions about how to use the board…
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For a science teacher in a city, it can sometimes be a challenge to find curricula that are geared specifically toward urban students. The author tackled this dilemma by creating a unit that focused on the urban…
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts and suggests an extraordinary effort to involve parents in their child's science learning. Try sharing your educational challenge with your students' parents--together this…
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Methods and Strategies: On the Case
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Implementing environmental science case studies helps students experience science in a meaningful way. This article describes a case study that involves the effects of the invasive plant kudzu.
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Methods and Strategies: Science Success for Students With Special Needs
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Recent special education legislation such as the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) emphasizes the placement of students with mild disabilities in the general education classroom. Therefore, students with learning…
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Idea Bank: Two Green Thumbs Up!
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Teaching with movie clips is one strategy to increase student understanding of environmental science. Whether accurate or not, “movie science” can expose students to phenomena that are difficult to explore in the…
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An opinion piece about teachers making mistakes and how students will learn to accept failed demonstrations and be challenged by them.
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This article presents a phenomenon, the hydraulic jump, as a way to help students see the complexity behind the seemingly simple and build experience and interest in the practice of science research.
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