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Commentary: What it Means to Belong
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An opinion piece about why you belong to a professional organization.
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This activity—Classifying Seeds—is designed to bring students and their surroundings together. By the conclusion of the activity, students have been exposed to a variety of situations requiring them to observe,…
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Science Sampler: What to do about Pluto?
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Perhaps Pluto is no longer a planet, but does that mean we should remove it from our solar system models? Is it time to order new textbooks, buy new posters, and invent new mnemonic devices? Slow down, no need to panic…
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By spiraling and varying the curriculum, teachers can structure lessons with the appropriate activities for each student. Three lesson plans centered around the same experiment and the same big idea allow students to…
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This article presents the qualitative analysis of data from a 20-year project analyzing the knowledge and attitudes toward science of undergraduate students enrolled in introductory astronomy courses.
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Editor's Corner: May You Live in Interesting Times!
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As the 2004-2005 began, science teachers were faced with unprecedented challenges. Limited budgets were stretched to the breaking point. The mandates of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), state and national standards, and…
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Student Reactions to Just-in-Time Teaching’s Reading Assignments
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This article describes how the Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm-up exercises were successfully adopted into a college-level physics course as a teaching tool. Students were found to be more engaged in lectures after…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Need an answer? Research it yourself!
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Action research can have a powerful impact on your classroom practice because you don’t have to scan through document after document to find solutions to your problems. Instead, you will develop solutions by analyzing…
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Experiencing Friction in First Grade
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First-grade students explore friction and use technology to collect data during a unit on forces and motion.
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Symbiosis is best defined as a physical association between, or among, organisms of different species that persists for most of their life history. The existence of symbiosis as an evolutionary force teaches students…
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Science 101: How can hands-on science teach long-lasting understanding?
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Hands-on science activities have long been touted as a great way to motivate students who otherwise might not be all that interested in science. This article discusses the art of tapping into successful discovery…
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When John Dewey’s name appears somewhere, many people imagine a librarian inventing an organizing system for shelving library books, but this is a different Dewey. Here the author is talking about John Dewey (1859–1952…
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Teachers can engage their students in lively presentations that demonstrate their understanding of biological classification. Using a cooperative learning approach, student groups research and apply their knowledge of…
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After the Bell: Science of the symphony II: Sound intensity
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The sounds that reach our ears when we listen to an orchestra performance are founded on scientific and mathematical principles. The science of sound can be used to engage students in explorations of tone, pitch,…
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A Simple Exercise Reveals the Way Students Think About Scientific Modeling
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Scientific modeling is an integral part of contemporary science, yet many students have little understanding of how models are developed, validated, and used to predict and explain phenomena. A simple modeling exercise…
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