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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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Teaching Through Trade Books: Exploring Ecosystems
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This month’s Teaching Through Trade Books column explores the complex relationships of living things to their natural environment and to each other. Investigations for grades K-3 and 4-6 are included.
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Point of View: The Conversion of Charles
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This essay tells the story of the path taken by a veteran physics teacher with a strongly traditional, didactic style of teaching to a more constructivist, inquiry-based, student-centered pedagogy. It highlights the…
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The Green Room: Green School Buildings
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses steps you can take to ensure a healthy and sustainable learning environment.
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Often the differences students see in science and mathematics classrooms are in perspective, approach, or application. Understanding those differences can help teachers to present a unified picture of mathematics and…
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"Clicker" Cases: Introducing Case Study Teaching Into Large Classrooms
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Case study teaching is difficult in large classes, especially in fixed-seat ampitheaters. The development of audience response systems, or "clickers," for use in classrooms has opened up exciting new possibilities for…
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Can meeting actual scientists change students' perceptions of scientists? In this investigation, it appears that the face-to-face interactions during the classroom visit influenced the students' perceptions and provided…
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