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In this article, the authors describe a two-phase inquiry lesson in which students explore the catalytic activity of amylase on starch (Rungruangsa and Panijpan 1979). In the first phase, students’ prior knowledge about…
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Science Shorts: Making a Case for Camouflage
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What child doesn’t enjoy a good game of hide-and-seek? There is the challenge of finding the perfect hiding spot and, of course, the allure of the hunt. Though children get great pleasure from the game, many members of…
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The setting: the science classroom. The characters: you and your students. The scene: Your students acting out scientific discoveries, modeling a frog’s life cycle, mimicking the transition from liquid to solid. This is…
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Science Sampler: Smelling the chocolate—The Perks of modeling habit of mind
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Branston, a sixth-grade urban charter school student, used scientific habits of mind to explain a real event. This was due to a series of lessons that make up the “smell” unit (Krajcik et al. 2006), a six-week, project-…
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This article discusses the structure, content, and implementation of a new course designed to teach the crucial essentials of the scientific enterprise to the nonscience major. The focus is the attempt to teach the…
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Visualizing NeuroscienceL Learning about the Brain through Art
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Neuroscience is a subject that can motivate, excite, and stimulate the curiosity of everyone. However, the study of the brain is made difficult by an abundance of new vocabulary words and abstract concepts. The art…
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Science Circus: Preparing Students and Engaging the Scientific Community
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Demonstrate the interconnectedness of Earth, life, and physical science using community-based exhibits.
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What Students Think: College students describe their high school chemistry class
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A college chemistry professor teaching first-year students was curious whether there was a link between student attitudes about chemistry and experiences they had in their high school chemistry classes. The survey…
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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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