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Scope on the Skies: Planets in motion
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September is a great month to watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mars in action. These planets will be visible as they move across the sky, and can be viewed with the naked eye. Take this opportunity to plot planetary motion…
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Before you throw an object into the air, it is wise to remember that “What goes up must come down.” Similarly, before you throw an object away, you should recall that “mass cannot be created or destroyed during a…
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"Student Teaching" in the Eighth-Grade Science Classroom
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Engage students by having them step to the front of the class and into the shoes of the teacher.
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Science Sampler: Piñatas, episodic events, and real-life applications
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Teaching students to gather and analyze data can be challenging. In particular, many students find the concepts of mean, mode, median, and range to be confusing, even though these concepts are typically introduced to…
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Most educators have a love-hate relationship with field trips. On the one hand, field trips are a great way to get students out of the building, enhance learning, and have some fun. On the other hand, field trips are a…
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Editor's Corner: 21st-Century Skills
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The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.
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Mythbusters, Musicians, and MP3 Players: A Middle School Sound Study
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Create your own speakers for an MP3 player while exploring the science of sound. Review of science notebooks, students' intriguing cabinet designs, and listening to students talk with a musician about the physics of an…
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The Science Text for All: Using Textmasters to Help All Students Access Written Science Content
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This article describes how one teacher uses the Textmasters strategy to motivate students to engage with the science textbook.
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Perspectives: On Writing in Science
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Many teachers use writing in science as a recording tool (science notebooks) or to find out what students have learned (constructed response tests). Yet writing experts Judith Langer and Arthur Applebee (1987) tell us…
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Undergraduate elementary education majors participate in an interdisciplinary course focused on modeling scientific systems. Students’ applications of three artificial intelligence concepts used in modeling scientific…
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Making Mendel's Model Manageable
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Genetics is often a fascinating but difficult subject for middle level students. This engaging activity presents an approach that helps students understand how genotypes can translate into phenotypes using Gummi Bears…
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The Early Years: Birds in Winter
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Science and art go hand-in-hand, as scientists make art to share their observations. Two scientists who are widely known first as artists are Leonardo de Vinci, anatomist and inventor, and Beatrix Potter, mycologist.…
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Discovering Flowers in a New Light
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Although students may have made observations of plants and flowers, not many have looked closely at their various structures or seen the colorful designs of flowers that are only apparent when magnified. The 5E learning…
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Students—and just about everyone else—tend to have a wide range of misconceptions about microbes. This article is aimed at changing how students view microbes by engaging them in two hands-on activities that are fun and…
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While many states are facing challenges to the teaching of evolution in their science classrooms, the University of California Museum of Paleontology, working with the National Center for Science Education, has…
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