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Idea Bank: Knowing Without Seeing
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In the following demonstration, students are asked to form a mental picture of an object hidden beneath a cardboard blind. Students must formulate hypotheses about the size, shape, and composition of the object while…
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Editor's Roundtable: Art Appreciation
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Tried and True: How old? Tested and trouble-free ways to convey geologic time
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Geologic time, or the time frame of our planet’s history, is several orders of magnitude greater than general human understanding of “time.” When students hear that our planet has a 4.6-billion-year history, they do not…
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Are you looking for ways to log professional development hours without traveling too far away from home this summer? Through reading, a teacher can spend valuable hours updating content background and methods, or simply…
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As educators, we must be willing to reinvent our worlds as we learn new things; to re-examine our conceptions as we encounter new views; and to re-evaluate our own subjective interactions with the new material. As part…
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Editorial: Unintentional Verbosity
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Writing hurts, even for individuals who do it professionally. Consequently, because the birth of an essay, an article, or a book is so painful, we come to have a special affection for our words. This is both natural and…
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Using Sound Knowledge to Teach About Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
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Throughout our lives we are surrounded by sounds in our environment. Our ability to hear plays an essential part in our everyday existence. Students should develop an understanding of the role technology plays in…
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Editor’s Corner: Inquiring Minds
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Regular readers of The Science Teacher (TST) may have noticed a lot of articles on scientific inquiry and notable among TST articles on inquiry are Bell and colleagues' “Simplifying Inquiry Instruction” and McComas’s “…
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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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