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Science Shorts: Project BudBurst—Analyzing Data
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Project BudBurst is a national program intended to get students and other “citizen scientists” to participate in a real study about plants, the environment, and climate change. It also provides an excellent opportunity…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Exploring Your Environment
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February is one of those months that is at the halfway point between the cold of the winter and the promise of the spring. It also offers a great time for students to begin to make initial observations about an area…
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Every Day Science: January 2009
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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The authors engaged in an education experiment to determine if the integration of lab and lecture activities in zoology and botany proved beneficial to student learning and motivation toward biology. Their results…
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Editor's Roundtable: Exoplanet Explosion
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Multiple Modes of Inquiry in Earth Science
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To help teachers enrich their students’ understanding of inquiry in Earth science, this article describes six modes of inquiry used by practicing geoscientists (Earth scientists). Each mode of inquiry is illustrated by…
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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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A newly appointed joint hire in the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and the College of Education, Department of Middle/Secondary Education, was charged with the responsibility of bridging…
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Science Sampler: The use of stations to develop inquiry skills and content for rock hounds
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Teaching the rock cycle can overwhelm even the most enthusiastic rock hound. As middle school science teachers, we constantly struggle with an appropriate balance between Earth system content and experiential activities…
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This article describes an inquiry-based lesson to deepen preservice teachers' understanding of the spherical Earth model using the Global Positioning System.
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Editor's Corner: Learning to Like Professional Development
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Science teachers today face unprecedented opportunities for professional development. From genomics to planetary exploration, new scientific discoveries are announced almost daily, discoveries that are changing our…
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Spill Sleuths: An Interdisciplinary Environmental Health Investigation
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An environmental health mystery can help teach students many aspects of environmental health and crisis management in the context of their own community. Students use skills from several disciplines to pinpoint, assess…
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Case Study: My Favorite Case and What Makes It So
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the authors discuss the results of a poll asking…
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At its heart, science is fundamentally about solving questions, or puzzles. Puzzles are those things to which the solution is unknown—now. Each generation of scientists tackles an array of problems, solving some and…
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This article details how collaboration among the authors—science teacher educators and scientists—was forged and the benefits that have emerged, such as documentation of reformed teaching and significant gains in pre-…
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