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Natural Resources: The Farmer and the Bell
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This column helps bring the outdoors into your curriculum. In this month’s issue information on starting your own school garden is provided.
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An inquiry-based research model provides students and teachers with a better understanding of inquiry and greater confidence in their critical thinking skills. This classroom experience is valued because the teacher…
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The Ocean, Reefs, Aquariums, Literacy, and Stewardship (CORALS) research program helps students connect global environmental issues to local concerns and personal choices. During the 18-week program, students strengthen…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Wonderful, Wiggly Worms
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Worms have the ability to either elicit screams of excitement or perhaps screams period. Although we don't generally see them, worms are an important part of our world. Take this opportunity to introduce students to…
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Reverse Your Science Fair with Educational Partnerships
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Do your students roll their eyes and groan at the idea of another science fair? If so, try implementing a different twist on science fairs, where teachers can arrange for adults to present projects to students. This non…
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Point of View: The Nuclear Road Ahead—A Science, Technology, and Society Issue
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Many undergraduates can often be motivated by the opportunity to explore issues requiring them to develop at least a modest understanding of the underlying science. For many students, “just in time” science makes good…
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Battling Ecophobia: Instilling Activism in Nonscience Majors When Teaching Environmental Issues
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This article describes an approach to teaching about environmental issues that helps instill a sense of agency in the young learner. Students identify five lifestyle behaviors that contribute to environmental…
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PD Pathways: Teacher? Learner? Both!
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Teachers often have questions about how the strategies they learned at a professional development (PD) workshop will work with their students. Wouldn’t it be great if teachers had the opportunity to practice…
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue focuses on the challenge to create an environment within the science enterprise where intellectual…
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Favorite Demonstration: An Inexpensive Resonance Demonstration
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Resonance is commonplace and easy to recognize when it occurs. Yet it is also one of the most impressive and often unexpected phenomenon in all of physics. This article describes a visually appealing resonance…
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The Gulf of Maine Institute (GOMI) is striving to empower youth to take on stewardship roles in their communities. Through its Community Based Initiative (CBI) program, GOMI addresses environmental degradation by…
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Are They Really Learning What We're Teaching? An Informal Survey and Student Self-Assessment
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While enrolled in either the first or second semester of a two-semester human anatomy and physiology sequence, students self-assessed their mastery of material presented in the prerequisite course. Fifty-seven percent…
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To help promote student awareness of the connection between radio astronomy and radio frequency interference (RFI), an inquiry-based science curriculum was developed to allow high school students to determine RFI levels…
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Favorite Demonstration: Visual Aid to Demonstrate Change of State and Gas Pressure With Temperature
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The visual aid described in this article is designed to demonstrate the change in state of matter with the change of temperature and the change of pressure with temperature.
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Augmented Reality Games: Using Technology on a Budget
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Take a smart-phone-enhanced tour of your school to solve a recycling mystery.
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