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A Computer Story: Complexity From Simplicity
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This article describes an activity in which students learn how complex outcomes can result from simple decisions. Participants encounter a broad range of learning experiences, including electric-circuit construction,…
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The authors developed a demonstration with two similar setups that provide students with both the prior experience to form an expectation and the discrepancy to grab their attention. They follow the demonstration with a…
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Editor's Corner: Reflection and Renewal
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According to Field Editor, Steve Metz, science teachers know that the traditional time for reflection on the past year is more likely to come in July than in January. Since summer is the time for reflecting on past…
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Teaching Teachers: Lessons in Cooperative Learning
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In this article, the author provides a list of suggestions, based on personal experience, to help preservice teachers start using cooperative learning.
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Libros de Ciencias en Español (2005)
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This article lists the current trade books in Spanish useful for young learners. Books are grouped under such categories as For the Very Young, Biology, Technology, and Physical Science.
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The instructor of an integrated science course for nonscience majors embedded content-related video segments from YouTube and other similar internet sources into lecture. Through this study, the instructor wanted to…
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Investigating Students' Ideas About the Flow of Matter and Energy in Living Systems
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In this article we describe strategies for eliciting student thinking, common responses to elicitation prompts, and implications for moving students' thinking forward.
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Problem-based learning is a powerful tool that motivates students to learn problem solving through investigation and research. The problems should be applicable to real life, messy or undefined, and require students to…
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Point of View: Dissecting Motivation—The Will-Skill-Thrill Profile
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Teaching is not talking. Teaching is creating an environment where learning happens. Effective teaching is creating an environment where maximum learning happens for every student. This requires acknowledging the…
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Everyday Engineering: A little flash (of) light
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The flashlight is a simple device that is composed of a lightbulb, usually two cells connected in series, a housing, a switch, and a reflector for the light. All flashlights essentially use these parts to complete a…
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Point of View: Do Academic Research Costs Drive up Undergraduate Tuition?
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue focuses on the tuition and fee increases for colleges and universities.
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Tried and True: Looking for Questions
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During the first day of school, eighth-grade students often receive hour after hour of specific rules and classroom procedures. However, the author takes a different approach in science class. Here she describes an…
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Cooperative Learning in the Science Classroom
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To help high school science teachers make sense of the extensive cooperative learning research over the last two decades, this article summarizes the major ideas behind the cooperative learning teaching model, provides…
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Case Study: Cooking Under Pressure—Applying the Ideal Gas Law in the Kitchen
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This case study uses a daily cooking scenario to demonstrate how the boiling point of water is directly related to the external pressures in order to reinforce the concepts of boiling and boiling point, apply ideal gas…
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