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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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Science Sampler: You can learn a lot from your dog
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Recently, dogs have been the focus of a great deal of scientific research. In fact, dogs were the inspiration for Professor Bruce Blumberg’s class, The Cognitive Dog: Savant or Slacker, at Harvard University. This…
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With some creative integration, this teacher increased student interest in physical science and received a 2002 NSTA Toyota TAPESTRY Grant. Her project, a physics trail on school grounds, included stations devoted to…
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Career of the Month: Energy Engineer
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue provides information about being an energy engineer.
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The analysis and activities described in this article provide high school chemistry and science teachers with hands-on lab experiments designed to make students more aware of corrosion and the processes used to prevent…
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Concrete Inquiry: An introduction to materials science
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Students walk to school on concrete sidewalks every day. Yet how many of them understand how concrete is made, how it can be strengthened, or the difference between cement and concrete? In this materials science unit,…
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This paper is an attempt to place the recent flurry of activity into context for SMET faculty. It contains nearly 100 resources which may be useful to researchers, theorists, and practitioners in this area. The…
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Through retelling, students can begin to attach sense and meaning to the sometimes complex concepts they encounter in science texts. Also, the shift from silent thinking to verbal expression causes the brain to…
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A Message from the NSTA President: Science Education—The Times They are A-Changin’
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Inspired by her favorite Bob Dylan song of 1964, “The Times They Are A-Changin”—NSTA President Page Keeley’s presidential theme during her 2008-09 tenure will be “From Transition to Transformation—Striving for a Science…
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Variations on an Historical Case Study: The Extraordinary Accident of Isidro Mejia
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Activities using the same historical case study can be designed for courses of varying degrees of proficiency by altering the format to suit each academic level. The case of Isidro Mejia, a construction worker who had…
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Habits of Mind for the Science Laboratory
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Laboratory experience should be an integral part of any high school science program, especially laboratory activities designed so that students gather data, explore concepts, and answer questions through inquiry. So,…
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Scope on Safety: Sticker Shock--There’s a high price to pay for ignorance about Electricity
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Lighting a fluorescent bulb by touching it to the nose of a student who has one hand on an electrostatic generator is an illuminating demonstration of the properties of voltage. It demonstrates that the several hundred…
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“If I ever get as burnt out as Mr. Jones down the hall,” commented a teacher I admire to a group of us novices, someone please tell me, and I will get out of teaching.” To avoid faring like “Mr. Jones,” read the…
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