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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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It's Alive: Students observe air-water interface samples rich with organisms
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After collaboration with a university researcher, students found that the air-water interface was a thin biofilm on the surface of still water composed of a rich variety of living microorganisms. Samples exposed to day-…
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How to Have a Successful Science and Ethics Discussion
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Students often come to class discussions with preformed opinions on many ethical issues. The challenging task for teachers is to help students learn to identify the facts of a case, recognize the underlying ethical…
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Methods and Strategies: Journals of Discovery
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Integrated science journals provide educators with valuable insight into teaching. They allow students to reflect on how engaged they were in learning about a particular topic while also providing information about how…
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Formative Assessment Probes: “More A – More B” Rule
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Early-formed preconceptions can be explained by one of the intuitive rules identified by Stavy and Tirosh (2000) called More A – More B. By starting with students’ preconceptions, revealed through the use of a formative…
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Resourceful Science Integration
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Recognizing that many issues of Science and Children contain helpful and varied examples of science integration that might be pertinent to a particular classroom setting, we decided to compile an annotated bibliography…
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Fossil Finders: Engaging All of Your Students Using Project-Based Learning
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Take a PBL approach to paleontology to engage even the most unmotivated of students.
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