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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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Editor’s Note: States of Matter
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There is a common misunderstanding of chemicals and chemistry. Chemicals are “bad.” Chemists are a nerdy set in the same category as those zany physicists, except that chemists work with more dangerous materials—“…
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Suckers for Science: Lessons with leeches teach students to think like scientists
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Suckers for Science is a model inquiry-based program for integrating curriculum, incorporating technology, providing alternative assessment, demonstrating connections between classroom and real-life applications, and…
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YouTube in the Science Classroom
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YouTube makes it possible for teachers to capitalize on children’s insatiable appetite for visually stimulating learning. Some of these videos attain “viral” status, getting passed on from person to person and by links…
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Guest Editorial: Computers in the Year 2000
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An opinion piece about the millennium computer bug or year 2000 problem (Y2K) that could cause computer systems to crash.
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Changing the Learning Environment in Large General Education Astronomy Classes
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The gradual, ongoing transformation of a large general education astronomy class is presented. Emphasis is on student reaction to and academic impact of changes in the teaching/learning environment introduced over a…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Science, the ultimate math word problem
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Science is a proving ground for skills learned in math classes, and for most students, it is often the first place where they have had to repeatedly use math to answer questions and solve problems. A lack of math skills…
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