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An after-school photography club challenges students to find a science topic of interest and create a storyboard through photographs. Community members, parents, and volunteer teenagers help the children develop…
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Favorite Demonstration: The Laporte Selection Rule in Electronic Absorption Spectroscopy
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The Laporte selection rule states that electronic transitions between two gerade (g) states are forbidden; electronic transitions between two ungerade (u) states are forbidden; and electronic transitions between a…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: What's Up with Sinking?
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Two trade books invite students to explore the question: To sink or not to sink? That is the experiment. Though both books are targeted for younger children, teachers can use these books with elementary students of…
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Teaching through Trade Books: Rock Solid Science
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Children are naturally curious about the world around them, including the rocks beneath their feet. By observing, describing, and sorting a variety of rocks, students can discover that rocks have certain physical…
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Research and Teaching: Student Understanding of Ionizing Radiation and Radioactivity
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Results from research into the teaching and learning of physics have shown that many college students have significant conceptual and reasoning difficulties relating to topics of radioactivity. Interviewing students…
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Students are using the tools of scientists when keeping a science notebook. They are also keeping track of their thinking and the changes to their original ideas. To bring students’ existing ideas out for examination,…
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High school and middle school science teachers should include English language learners (ELLs) in interactive science learning, thereby increasing the opportunities for these students to learn science. Creating…
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Take Off With NASA’s Kepler Mission!
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Humans have long wondered about life in the universe. Are we alone? Is Earth unique? What is it that makes our planet a habitable one, and are there others like Earth? NASA’s Kepler Mission seeks the answers to these…
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Scientific Journals: A Creative Assessment Tool
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The typical use of science notebooks is for students to record information as they complete an investigation, writing down their procedure, observations, data, results, graphs, and any other factual information…
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Safer Science: Building Safety with Engineering Controls
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Before conducting any laboratory activities, science teachers need to be in the know about the OSHA-required hierarchy of defense in the laboratory. At the top of OSHA's list are engineering controls, which are designed…
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Morning Meeting and Science—A Winning Combination
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Daily morning meetings help improve key social skills needed for science class.
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Editor's Roundtable: Report on reform
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the findings of a new report, What America Thinks About Science Education Reform.
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Editorial: Stuck in the Certainty Gradient
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We are increasingly seeing incoming college students who haven’t experienced (or perhaps haven’t responded to) this gradual presentation of increasing uncertainty. And the author believes this is one of the profound and…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Nurturing Scientific Habits of Mind
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Science process skills and content knowledge are not enough to produce the scientists and scientifically literate citizens we need in the 21st century. Shared values and dispositions within the science community such as…
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And the Winners Are… Award-Winning Science Books of 2008
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Most people are probably familiar with major literary awards such as the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Booker Prizes, and the Caldecott and Newbery awards for children’s literature.…
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