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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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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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