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Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Using Reader’s Theater to Teach Science
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Reader’s theater is an activity in which students, while reading directly from scripts, are able to tell a story in its most entertaining form. Typically, teachers create or purchase premade scripts of stories, and…
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Science 101: What Is Acid Rain?
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Acid rain is the collective term for any type of acidified precipitation: rain, snow, sleet, and hail, as well as the presence of acidifying gases, particules, cloud water, and fog in the atmosphere. This section gives…
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Science Sampler: Taking steps to understand geologic time
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Getting students to understand the concept of geologic time is challenging because it is difficult to imagine the vast time frame of Earth’s history. Therefore, this article describes an inquiry-based activity that uses…
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Instructor Gender and Student Confidence in the Sciences: A Need for More Role Models?
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This article examines the extent to which college-level instructor gender affects the confidence of males and females in their scientific abilities.
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How can we teach science to English language learners (ELLs) when even our native English speakers have trouble reading the textbook? To help science teachers meet this challenge, this article presents six text-…
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Methods and Strategies: Why Demonstrations Matter
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As a teacher, it is important to build lessons around concepts and utilize demonstrations as an integral part of concept development in science. Demonstrations are easy to do and offer many benefits and unique…
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What is the Value of Course-Specific Learning Goals?
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The authors examined student and faculty opinions regarding the use of detailed learning goals in three courses. Students reported the use of learning goals to be positive, aiding them with studying, in lectures, and in…
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Scope on the skies: You're blocking my view
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Don't try to catch your shadow during April! The arrangement of the Earth, Moon, and Sun will be such that there will be an eclipse of the Sun at new moon, and an eclipse of the Moon at full Moon. While viewing both…
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Intersections, Molecules, and Homeless Shelters
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This article describes activities that motivate science students with drama and imagination. The teacher can invent curiosity-provoking scenarios that require students to apply science concepts and processes as integral…
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Commentary: Wanted—Advocates for science laboratory safety
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An opinion piece about the need for safety in school science laboratories and how it has dramatically increased over the past decade.
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Favorite Demonstration: A Fruity Biochemistry Demonstration
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Inquiry, high-order thinking, reasoning skills, and critical thinking are buzzwords for the outcomes for which college science instructors strive. They can all be succinctly summarized as "get students thinking about…
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Taking classes outdoors to do field studies can be difficult because students have a hard time identifying the local flora and fauna. To resolve the outdoor identification problem, the teachers and students at Arrowhead…
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The Meteor Scatter Project, a replication of a NASA funded project carried out by Anthony Mallama, is a system capable of recognizing meteor activity in a specified section of our atmosphere. The activity is graphically…
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“Creative” does not adequately describe the 2,800 entries in the 2000 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program. Second- through eighth-grade student inventions were reviewed by panels (regional and national) of…
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Recharge your motivational batteries with books suggested by NSTA Recommends reviewers.
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