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Tech Trek: A Coruscating Star in the Calvalcade of Electronic Devices: The iPad
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This column provides a look at the latest technology for science educators. This month's issue focuses on the iPad.
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Home Connections: Thumbs Are Handy Digits
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Hold your hand out in front of you and look a it carefully. The human hand is made up of four fingers and one thumb. Have you ever thought about how much you use your thumb? This month’s Home Connections activity…
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12 (Books published in 2009)
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What makes an outstanding book for a young reader? Although it would be hard to create a rubric for every book, experienced teachers recognize them quickly. They fascinate and captivate with both their content and style…
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“Engineering Challenge for the 21st Century,” a weeklong teacher workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation, uses project-based learning (PBL) to help students and teachers build science, technology,…
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The Brooklyn Opportunities in Science and Careers (BOSC) program aims to increase student participation in physics, environmental studies, geology, and teaching science using a career-focused strategy to recruit…
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Weaving Science and Civics Through Interdisciplinary Courses
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Cross-curricular programming offers unique opportunities to connect non-majors with science. In this article, the author describes personal experiences related to a novel initiative uniting science, civics, and…
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This article explores ways that people impact ecological systems and how those systems can influence our daily lives. Students use newspaper articles and case studies of scientific research to link daily human life and…
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Science Sampler: ExploraVision's professional development opportunities
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Professional development can take many forms. One unusual approach recommended by the author is participation in NSTA's futuristic science event, ExploraVision. It requires teams of students to investigate a problem and…
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Nematodes: Model Organisms in High School Biology
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In a collaborative effort between university researchers and high school science teachers, an inquiry-based laboratory module was designed using two species of insecticidal nematodes to help students apply scientific…
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Teaching through Trade: Life-Cycle Science
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The lifecycle of the butterfly is commonly taught at the elementary level. This month's column focuses on the book Waiting for Wings. Background information and activities for grades K-3 and 4-6 are included.
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Formative Assessment Probes: Seeing the Light
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses students' preconceptions related to the reflection of light.
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Science Sampler: Inquiry goes outdoors—What can we learn at the pond?
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The Oregon 4-H Wildlife Stewards program has been training teachers and volunteers to convert school grounds to education sites by constructing schoolyard wildlife habitats since 1997. The publication What Can We Learn…
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This laboratory exercise introduces students to a fundamental tool in evolutionary biology--phylogenetic inference. Students are required to create a data set via observation and through mining preexisting data sets.…
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Field Surveys of Amphibian Populations
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Amphibian Research, a course offered at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana, introduces freshmen- and sophomore-level biology and environmental science majors to investigative field research. Students learn to…
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Scope on Safety: Bloodborne pathogens—Be prepared, be protected
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Malaria, Lyme disease, Epstein-Barr syndrome, meningitis, syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS—what do all of these diseases have in common? These belong to a group of over 100 microorganisms categorized as bloodborne…
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