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Perspectives: Children’s Literature and the Science Classroom
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Children’s literature, or trade books, address many scientific topics, both in narrative and expository forms. They provide a context for developing process skills (Monhardt and Monhardt 2006) and help create a sense of…
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Science 101: Do balances and scales determine an object’s mass or its weight?
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The typical elementary school explanation of the difference between mass and weight goes something like the following: Mass is the amount of matter contained in an object. If you travel to the Moon, another planet, or…
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Editorial: Tsunamis and Other Disasters -- A Response from Scientists Who Teach
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Scientists who teach have a unique opportunity and an ethical obligation to ensure that the scientific and technical basis for analyzing natural and man-made threats is communicated to citizens. As predictions are…
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The day the Turtle Girls received Montel’s adoption papers, piercing screams ricocheted across the school grounds instantaneously and simultaneously—in that moment, each student felt the joy of civic stewardship. Read…
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From Data to Policy: An Undergraduate Program in Research and Communication
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This article describes a student Science and Policy course for undergraduate science majors. During this program pairs of students undertake research projects while receiving instruction in both research methods and…
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In this article, the authors look in-depth at scientific practice number 2—developing, evaluating, and revising scientific models to explain and predict phenomena—and what it means for classroom teaching.
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A teacher describes how developing a structured, focused, and fun curriculum on rocks and minerals for learning-disabled students transformed her initial reluctance about Earth science into enthusiasm. Students observed…
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This article presents a program that introduces undergraduates to the diversity and scope of biological research and also provides unique teaching opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.…
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In this case, students speculate on what may have caused a major fish kill in an estuary in North Carolina. In the process they explore how land runoff and excess nutrients affect aquatic communities and learn about the…
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Commentary: Positive Parent-Teacher Conferences
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An opinion piece about being positive with students, as well as with parents, and suggestions for how to handle parent-teacher conferences.
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Science 101: How does the human body turn food into useful energy?
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As with just about everything else involving the human body, it is absolutely amazing that we can chow down on various things and somehow use this basic action to grow, move, breathe, and all other kinds of things.…
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Science Sampler: Space moves—Adding movement to solar system lessons
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Earth and space science figure prominently in the National Science Education Standards for levels 5–8 (NRC 1996). The Earth in the Solar System standard focuses on students’ ability to understand (1) the composition of…
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By investigating laundry detergent effectiveness, students participate in discovery-based learning. A common paper chromatography experiment is modified to introduce students to properties of surfactants and is used as…
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An aquatic insect aquarium is a great tool for teaching students about life cycles, food webs, environmental niches, and adaptations to pond life. Complete directions for setting up the aquarium are provided, along with…
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Student inquiry projects with first graders? What a frightening idea! At least that’s what one first-grade teacher thought until she actually did it. Although she taught and extended the inquiry-based science kits with…
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