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The Early Years: Water Leaves "Footprints"
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses an activity to help students learn how water shapes the Earth's surface.
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Science Sampler: Designed by Nature—Exploring linear and circular life cycles
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Designed by Nature is a series of six sequential lessons that help middle school students explore the environmental impacts of producing and disposing of everyday items, and the role of citizens, consumers, and…
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Idea Bank: Traveling Safely Overseas
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Overseas field trips can be exciting and rewarding for both teachers and students. To ensure a healthy and safe return, this article features certain steps that MUST be taken before embarking on an overseas adventure.
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We want to challenge our students, but we need to give them tasks and assessments they can realistically succeed at and are valid indicators of their learning. Deconstructing planning, teaching, and assessment can help…
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Teaching Inquiry Skills Using Rainsticks
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South American tribes created rainsticks—percussion instruments made from bamboo or dried cactus filled with rice—to appeal to the gods in hopes of bringing rain. In Africa, rainsticks are musical instruments. In the…
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Teacher Research: Challenging Our Assumptions
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Teacher research—often called “action research”—is an intentional and systematic inquiry into one’s own classroom practice with the goal of improved student learning (Cochran-Smith and Lytle 1993). In this article, the…
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After the bell - Algebraic Thinking Part II: The Use of Functions in Scientific Inquiry
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Functions are not only a necessary mathematical tool for scientific inquiry--the use of functions on standardized tests is increasing to the point where students must be proficient in the subject. This activity, the…
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Modeling the Research Process: Alternative Approaches to Teaching Undergraduates
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An Introduction to Research course was modified to better teach the process of scientific inquiry to students who were not engaged in research projects. Students completed several tasks involved in research projects,…
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Measuring real weather provides a nice opportunity for data collection and problem-solving when students work to create a procedure before they gather data. It is also a powerful way to get students to notice the…
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Educators in Mexico respond to the need for integrating science into other disciplines with a guided-inquiry curriculum module called Adventures on a Deserted Island. The program engages elementary students in an…
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Why are students unable to make the transition from understanding concepts to applying them? It seems that the standard lecture format does not provide students with an opportunity to test comprehension of a subject.…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Gravity and Weight
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. This month’s issue explores the concept of gravity through several activities and readings.
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It is true that science can be found anywhere, even in the ancient Japanese sport of sumo wrestling. This activity gives students insight into both Japanese culture and an important science lesson on center of mass.
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Science 101: Why is a light-year a unit of distance rather than a unit of time?
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There are many issues associated with measurement that can be confusing. From light-years, to Richter scales, to logarithmics, Bill Robertson makes science more palpable for the average person.
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Guest Editorial: Hard to Teach Does Not Mean Impossible
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An opinion piece about difficult-to-teach topics.
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