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Honeybees, Butterflies, and Ladybugs: Partners to Plants
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Honeybees, butterflies, and ladybugs all have fascinating mutually beneficial relationships with plants and play important ecosystem roles. Children also love these creatures. But how do we teach children about these…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Model behavior
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Models are manageable representations of objects, concepts, and phenomena, and are everywhere in science. Models are “thinking tools” for scientists and have always played a key role in the development of scientific…
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The Early Years: Adding Up the Rain
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Having your class measure and record the amount of precipitation that falls daily is a job young children can do as part of learning about measurement and weather. Summer is a good time to prepare to teach about…
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If the pressure’s on to enhance the growth and development of students’ inquiry skills, use a discrepant event. A discrepant event is a demonstration designed to present a situation or phenomenon that has an unexpected…
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Online Class Review: Using Streaming-Media Technology
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This article presents an automated system that allows students to replay both audio and video from a large nonmajors’ organic chemistry class as streaming RealMedia. Once established, this system requires no technical…
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Scope on the Skies: Exploring the Earth's Atmosphere
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue details information about the layers of the atmosphere.
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The Early Years: Exploring the Properties of a Mixture
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Children learn about properties of materials as they walk through a fabric store, help in the kitchen, or dig in the garden. Directed explorations in the classroom build on these early experiences. In the inquiry-based…
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What’s It Like Where You Live? Meeting the Standards through technology-enhanced inquiry
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“What’s It Like Where You Live?” is a unit that involves an extended comparison of biomes, defined as regions characterized by distinctive climate, plants, and animals. By designing the curriculum around the Standards,…
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Enhancing students’ cognitive development is a priority—students must learn how to think. Inquiry instruction provides students with tools to make decisions based upon available evidence and an opportunity to develop…
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Learning Logs in the Science Classroom - The Literacy Advantage
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One of the most functional forms of writing to learn is two-column learning logs. Two-column learning logs are based on the premise that collecting information and processing information are two very different aspects…
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This article presents a lesson in which students examine current field research on global change. In particular, students investigate the effect of carbon dioxide and tropospheric ozone on ecosystems by applying their…
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How can we use inquiry to examine why animals live in groups? The answer is to use models, which are more feasible than working with hundreds of test subjects. This article describes a Standards-based directed inquiry…
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Awaken and sharpen your students' powers of observation by using art, particulary drawing, in your science classroom. There is a commonality between methods that artists employ in portraying their subjects and the…
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Idea Bank: The Nuts and Bolts of Enzymes
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank describes an enzyme modeling activity that helped students identify the functions of enzymes using nuts and…
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The Green Room: Earth Day 2012
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue talks about how to celebrate Earth Day at school.
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