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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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Science 101: What kind of professional development is best for teachers?
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The simple answer to this question is that it depends on your needs. For elementary and middle school teachers, though, the author has found that a high percentage of teachers lack the proper background in science…
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Safer Science: Personal Protective Equipment—It’s the Law!
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In addition to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) personal protective equipment (PPE) standard—OSHA Laboratory Standard 29CFR 1910.132—and other professional prudent practices, many states have…
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Idea Bank: Celebrating Seren<i>dipity:</i> Connecting Chemistry and History
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In today's world of social media websites and Web 2.0, people are connected like never before. Why not use these web tools in the science classroom? In this month's Idea Bank, the authors propose that teachers use an…
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A Message from the NSTA President: A New Era for NSTA Conventions
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NSTA has unveiled a new name--and an enriched format--for its time-honored conventions. The NSTA national and area conventions will now be called NSTA Conferences on Science Education. Teachers will benefit from the…
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Case Study: <em>Not</em> an Old Person’s Disease
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This article describes a case study done in sections. Students first read a scenario and then write down and discuss answers to questions provided by the professor. After discussion, they continue reading, learn a…
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After the Bell: Turn any science topic into hands-on fun
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Many students are turned off by science even before they get out of grade school. This articles focues on making science a discovery process—not just a result—by creative teaching methods and a positive philosophy of…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Professional development—A thousand kilometers wide and a micron deep!
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A long-term, coherent program of high-quality professional development (PD) is the best way to foster improvement in classroom practices and student learning. Administrators and district office personnel must make high-…
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