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Scope on the Skies: Conjunction functions
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This spring, as the school year starts to wind down, there will be many opportunities for students to observe bright planets and to wrap up the year with some great conjunctions and close occultation with the Moon,…
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Science Shorts: Comparing Liquids
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Children experience the physical properties of liquids as they watch raindrops run down a window, observe how insects can walk on water, and notice how the “shape” of a liquid matches the container in which it is held.…
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In this section the editor discusses how children are expected to understand how their bodies work as well as how to keep their bodies healthy as aligned with the National Science Education Standards. She gives an…
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Analyzing toppling dominoes in slow motion sharpens students' observations of a fairly common childhood experience and stimulates creativity for subsequent explorations within the field of mechanics and forces in motion…
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Astronomer/Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman
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How did the first galaxies form? How old are the oldest stars? Much of the universe remains uncharted territory. As astronomers study the abundance of celestial objects and phenomena outside Earth’s atmosphere, they…
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Try using an assessment cycle to effectively probe students' understanding of scientific concepts. The diagnostic, formative, summative, and confirmatory assessment can be embedded into any unit of study.
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Science Shorts: Weather Watchers
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A unit that emphasizes sensory observation, with the creation of appropriate weather instruments and models!
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Editor’s Corner: Outside the School Walls
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This issue of The Science Teacher (TST) continues our tradition of devoting one issue each year to partnerships that connect students, teachers, and their communities. Science activities that take students outside…
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The authors developed an inquiry-based course that emphasizes integration of the sciences. Student teams pursue research projects of their own design using mathematics and physics to study biological phenomena. Faculty…
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Modifying the family science night concept mimics the engineering design process and connects families to the science curriculum.
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Making Environmentally Friendly Cleaners
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The emphasis on science education involves students "doing science" with hands-on and minds-on activities. In this article, students do science by making, testing, and comparing the effectiveness, cost efficiency, and…
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The Prepared Practitioner: Intro to Research
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As a K-12 teacher, should you pay attention to the research done by “those university people up in their ivory towers?” To understand some of what academic research offers you, an analogy might be helpful. As a driver,…
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Students build a Markov chain probability model of marriage and divorce using statistics—the chance of divorcing in a given year and the chance of divorcing eventually—from an article on the subject with the goal of…
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Guest Editorial: Technology Techniques: Using Them the Right Way
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An opinion piece about using technology in the classroom.
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Classroom demonstrations and hands-on modeling of abstract scientific concepts represent pedagogical strategies that are often overlooked in college science teaching. The educational literature is replete with research…
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