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  • A Decade of Concern: A review of multicultural science education issues in the The Science Teacher

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    Multicultural science education has long been of interest to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). As a result, The Science Teacher has devoted one issue each publishing year to multicultural science…

  • A Scientific World in a Grain of Sand

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    Students investigate local sand samples on a shoestring budget. This investigation reveals a fascinating Earth history that can address various interdisciplinary scientific topics, provide rich inquiry experiences, and…

  • Editorial: City Science—Filling the Education Vacuum for Our Inner-City Populations

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    The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the need for an urban program sponsoring applied research related to the improvement of the lives of city residents.

  • Art and Evolution

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    Dazzle students with the asthetic nature of art by integrating it into your science curriculum. For two weeks, a 10th-grade biology course is joined with the 10th-grade humanities course, which focuses on the 19th…

  • Keep Up With a Good Book

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    Summer is a time for personal enrichment for teachers. Many travel, take formal classes, or work as interns or volunteers in scientific endeavors. But whatever the schedule, it’s also a time for teachers to get back to…

  • Editorial: Lost in Translation

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    Certainly, students are learners. No one can nor should expect them to demonstrate complete mastery early in the educational process. However, by the end of first semester of their freshman year, the author believes the…

  • Every Day Science: February 2009

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    This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.

  • Taking Science Dialogue by Storm

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    One teacher examines classroom discourse through a unit on tornadoes and natural catastrophes.

  • Career of the Month: An Interview With Ice Scientist Julienne Stroeve

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    While most of us may never see or feel Arctic sea ice ourselves, it directly influences the climate, wildlife, and people who live in the Arctic—and because of the link to global warming, the fate of sea ice affects the…

  • Classroom Composting: Creating compost using an inquiry-based design

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    This article challenges students through a variety of questions to learn about the optimum conditions necessary for composting. The students had more questions than answers so an internet search was done to gain more…

  • Chemical Poker

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    In this innovative method of testing in general and organic chemistry, students receive prepared, randomized cards with a portion of a question on them. The students must then use the cards to complete and answer…

  • Science 101: Why does air expand when you heat it, and why does hot air rise?

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    The short answer to the questions in the title are that air doesn't necessarily expand when you heat it, and hot air doesn't always rise. These two commonly misunderstood concepts related to the behavior of gases and…

  • Scope on the Skies: Rocks, robots, and ices

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    Solar system exploration in November includes flybys of Saturn’s moons, a comet, and the next-to-last launch of a space shuttle before the shuttle program ends. In addition, on November 1 and 29 before sunrise, the…

  • Research and Teaching: Assessment of a Constructivist-Motivated Mentoring Program to Enhance the Teaching Skills of Atmospheric Science Graduate Students

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    This article describes a collaborative mentoring program in which graduate students from a university atmospheric science research department team-taught environmental science classes with professors in a liberal arts…

  • Students Inspiring Students

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    The Archimedes Initiative is a free, online archive of videos recorded at county and state science fairs, which show students addressing their peers. This article describes the content of the website and suggests how…

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