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Science 2.0: PD on a Shoestring
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue describes inexpensive or free professional development opportunities by listing webinars, videos, podcasts, and more that are available online.
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Tried and true: Heating up inquiry with solar ovens
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Melt away your students' fear of failure while igniting their scientific inquiry skills with this exciting and hands-on project using solar ovens. Students will design, build, and test a solar oven that is capable of…
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Developing writing skills along with content by incorporating hands-on science experiences and related writing lessons provides students with a purpose for writing, which makes it more meaningful to students. The…
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Media and Science: Developing Skepticism and Critical Thinking
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Science lessons can encourage students to view data with a scientists' skeptical eye—especially now that so much unrefereed information is online, in advertising, and in other media sources. In developing the skills of…
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Guest Editorial: Minds, Models, and Maps
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An opinion piece about the benefits of visual learning devices.
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This paper describes the results of incorporating technology in the histology laboratory by using high-resolution video-imaging equipment (VIE). The study sought to determine if (1) the VIE would allow students to more…
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To address the confusion resulting from difficulties with proportional reasoning among preservice physical science students, a cube-assembly activity was used to bring a sense of concreteness to abstract ideas. The…
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Explore Earth's atmosphere with an air-pressure activity. The lessons in the unit described in this article meet content objectives from both science and mathematics.
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Burning Questions About Calories
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Encouraging students to define problems through asking questions about the topic has a positive impact on classroom morale. First, the teacher benefits from increased understanding of students’ knowledge and background…
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Case Study: Learning About the Nature of Science With Case Studies
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Case studies are an effective way to help students understand how science works, and perhaps even more importantly, how science knowledge is constructed. Yet often when we teach the content of science, we overlook the…
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The Green Room: International Sustainability Education
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue, the author discusses three sustainability stories of three schools she visited in the past year.
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Most states’ science-education standards support the teaching of evolution, but many in the general public and some policymakers want science classrooms to include creationism. As a result of this influence, are…
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Science Sampler - Solutions and dilutions: Mixing the math into the science
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This lab activity teaches students how to make solutions and dilutions while reinforcing the mathematical concepts involved. The materials used are cost-effective, readily available, and safe for students to handle. “I…
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Seeing Isn't Always Believing: Investigating the reliability of classroom demonstrations
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The author describes a traditional classroom experiment often used to demonstrate the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, and challenges the high school chemistry students to test the validity of the procedure.…
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A Real Fish Story: Students raise salmon and ecological awareness
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Students work to restore the salmon population in a local tributary. The project, partially funded by a TAPESTRY grant, and with the involvement of the local community, was successful. The salmon began to return in…
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