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Formative Assessment Probes: Confronting Common Folklore—Catching a Cold
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Formative assessment probes can help teachers find out what students' ideas are before teaching lessons and use the information to adjust instructional strategies. This article gives an example teachers can use to see…
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This article details the experiences of a fifth-grade class taking part in a NASA project in which students make observations of clouds and other weather data in order to reinforce satellite data and scientific research.
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This exercise visually demonstrates that the binding of calcium to calmodulin changes its conformation to allow binding to a target protein, calcium/calmodulin protein kinase II. It introduces undergraduates to the…
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Service learning provides a novel learning experience for science students while furnishing a service to the community. The implementation and assessment of a service learning project involving an Earth science fair are…
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Instead of tedious labeling of rocks, geology is a dynamic, relevant field that in many ways provides a context and connection for all other fields of science. This selection includes notes from the field editor of…
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Across the City and Across Grades: Investigating Energy Flow in the Boston Harbor Ecosystem
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Discover how students can conduct an in-depth study of a local ecosystem.
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Editor's Note (September 2004)
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The act of having students commit to an outcome makes them think. It is different than oral brainstorming because everyone is accountable. Students may not volunteer exactly what they are thinking. Like everyone else…
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Science Sampler: Water, Water, Everywhere?
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Many students assume that we have an unlimited supply of water available for human consumption. Through the following investigations, students will gain a better understanding of how much is actually available.
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This article focuses on the use of artwork to investigate science-process skills in an interesting and unusual way. Preservice teachers examine a painting and share descriptions of the painting (observations), what they…
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Since 2008, several digital cameras have offered high-speed movie settings that allow video to be captured at 120 to 1,000 frames per second. That means you can play back a 1-second, real-time event in slow motion that…
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Every Day Science Calendar: February 2006
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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The Energy Retrofit of a Building: A Journey Through Bloom’s Learning Domains
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At Colorado College, the energy retrofit of a building is used as a service-learning research project to teach physics and chemistry in a variety of courses. In introductory courses for nonscience majors, the project…
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Methods and Strategies: The Science Representation Continuum
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Research indicates that people more easily understand abstractions when they are preceded by concrete representations (Lawson 2002). This article describes how educators can use science representations to help students…
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Safer Science: Equipment Safety—UL Ratings and More
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The UL label signifies that an appliance has been safety-tested in accordance with a specific set of standards. This ensures safer operation and built-in protection for the user. Science teachers might find themselves…
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Science Sampler: Creative projects stimulate classroom learning
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In a perfect world, what would a good classroom strategy look like? It would definitely include the use of projects. Classroom projects are original pieces of student work that may be in the form of art, writing, models…
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