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Learning makes more sense and is retained when it has a context and connection to other knowledge. We know this from a wealth of sources: research, our experiences as students—and as teachers. We remember things that…
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Johnny Appleseed Comes to Class
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Elementary life science methods professors found that their students often misunderstood the connection between flowers and fruits. Johnny Appleseed helped to solve this quandry by making a visit to provide an engaging…
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Fall is a time when the splendors of nature are unveiled through the transformation of leaf colors. Daylight, temperature, and nutritional variations are factors that initiate the hormonal changes leading to the…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Stop avoiding your e-mails!
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Don’t expect the online “innovation” to go away—email communication is here to stay, and it is your responsibility as an educational professional to respond to them, and even use them to your advantage. This month’s…
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Tech Trek: Experimenting with technology—Advice to those who dare
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This planned activity experiments with technology and is designed to explore one site on the World Wide Web.
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Scope on Safety: Safety in the field
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. In this month’s issue the author discusses how to navigate field trips safely through careful preparation and planning. The field trip is priceless and helps…
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Methods and Strategies: The Teaching-With-Analogies Model
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Teachers often use analogies and are unaware of it—they are using them automatically. Whenever they begin an explanation with “It’s just like…,” “It’s similar to…,” or “Think of it this way…,” they are using an analogy…
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Connecting Middle School, Oceanography, and the Real World
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The Sierra Oceanic Institute curriculum is an excellent way to channel students’ energy into completing tasks and learning about the ocean. Students are employees of this fictitious organization that places ownership of…
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This article offers instructional strategies that teach students to think critically.
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Editor’s Corner: Science for All
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This issue of The Science Teacher (TST) marks our 12th consecutive annual issue devoted to the theme “Science for All.” In its infancy, this special issue focused exclusively on the important topic of teaching…
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Adaptable Inquiry-Based Activities About National Patterns of Coal and Energy Use
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This lesson about our nation's electricity resources contains inquiry-based lessons designed to deepen students' understanding of key Earth science issues.
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The term inquiry has been used to form curriculum goals, design instructional strategies, and assess learning. The term also describes what scientists do. Within the science classroom, inquiry is used to promote…
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Writing-to-learn activities are designed to use writing as a process in which students generate and clarify understanding of scientific concepts for themselves, rather than simply communicating with a teacher for…
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Teacher’s Toolkit: The Computational Science Education Reference Desk
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The June 2005 report of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Council stated that “Computational science is now indispensable to the solution of complex problems in every sector, from traditional science and…
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Nonfiction Literacy in Kindergarten
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After an outdoor excursion hunting for a “special leaf” on a delightful fall day, students returned to the classroom and were instructed to capture the leaf on a blank page in their science notebooks. They were asked to…
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