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Editor’s Roundtable: Weaving a web of learning
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Teachers of all content areas, the arts included, must collaboratively plan meaningful instructional units around themes, issues, or problems that can be investigated and assessed using a cohesive, interdisciplinary…
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Our Watery World: Teaching Middle School Students About Biodiversity
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Explore local natural areas to reinforce the importance of water to life on Earth.
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Girls Only, Please: An after-school science club for girls promotes understanding and involvement
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Many girls come to school with few out-of-school experiences that properly prepare them for science in the classroom; however, boys often play with science toys and tinker with mechanical devices. Furthermore, when…
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Astronomical Scale of Stellar Distances Using 3-D Models
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One of the largest challenges of teaching astronomy is bringing the infinite scale of the universe into the four walls of a classroom. However, concepts of astronomy are often the most interesting to students. This…
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Recognizing Excellence: Turtles and Technology
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This column features profiles of award-winning science programs and teachers. In this month’s issue students are involved in a real-world problem: how to protect a threatened species and become its advocate.
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The ESA21 Project: A Model for Civic Engagement
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Making the content of a course interesting to students can be quite a challenge for an instructor. Making the content of a required general education science course interesting to nonscience majors can be near to…
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Career of the Month: Nutritional Biochemist
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue talks about being a nutritional biochemist.
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Worms on Ice: Exploring the mysteries of the elusive ice worm
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Students and teachers can participate in ongoing scientific research through simple worm experiments in the classroom. During the latest JASON Project expedition, a team of students designed and conducted several…
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Favorite Demonstration: Demonstrating Emergent Properties in Dynamic Systems
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This demonstration was developed for an introduction to a soil science class to show how emergent properties are an essential behavior endemic to dynamic systems; explanations for their existence are not dependent on…
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Although weather, including its role in the water cycle, is included in most elementary science programs, any further examination of raindrops and snowflakes is rare. Together rain and snow make up most of the…
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The author incorporates engineering into the biology classroom by having students safely design, construct, and analyze engineered biological systems. This article examines a new open-access curriculum designed to teach…
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The Sport-Utility Vehicle: Debating Fuel-Economy Standards in Thermodynamics
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This paper describes a debate about national fuel-economy standards for sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) used as a foundation for exploring a public policy issue in the physical science classroom. The subject of automobile…
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This activity provides a way for students to practice using the genetic code and, as a result, to realize the redundancy of the genetic code by practicing "reverse translation" and understand why it's physiologically…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: The Mystery of Migration
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This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. The lessons in this month's column explore what we know about animal migration and what still remains a mystery.
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This activity focuses on Leonardo da Vinci's tree theory, which states that the cross-sectional area of a major limb is approximately equal to the cross-sectional areas of its two offshoot limbs. Students test this…
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