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Twentieth-century novelist and physicist C.P. Snow famously stated that solving the world’s complex problems requires collaboration between humanists and scientists. We agree with Snow and illustrate one integrated…
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Science Sampler: Five guiding principles of meteorology
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The language of meteorology could be reduced to five deceptively simple guiding principles. This article focuses on how these guiding principles provide students with the necessary language to understand and make…
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To engage students in a real-world issue (Bransford, Brown, and Cocking 2000) that affects their communities, the author designed an entire unit to investigate air pollution in their home state, Connecticut. The unit’s…
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Solving Authentic Science Problems
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Problem-based learning (PBL) connects science to the world beyond school. This article describes the benefits of using PBL problems as a center of science curriculum. The authors offer suggestions and resources for…
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The Early Years: If You Were a Dinosaur…
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Dinosaurs are one of those science topics that draw children in and teach them about concepts like measuring and using descriptive language. Learning about dinosaurs, although not hands-on like observing and recording…
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"Clued In" to Their Environment
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To help students become better acquainted with Florida’s natural environment, an environmental outreach program director developed an activity in which students would use a large canvas floor map of their state to learn…
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The Prepared Practitioner: Making Inquiry Successful
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In general, moving from structured to guided to open inquiry means increasing student thinking and responsibility—at the highest level, students come up with questions to investigate, figure out how to answer those…
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This article describes teaching and learning strategies that promote creative problem finding. The authors examined problem finding factors that lead to high-quality science fair projects.
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Biomedical Engineer William Ditto
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Biomedical engineers combine biology, physics, medicine, math, communication, and engineering to solve medical and health-related problems. Through their development of everything from pacemakers to artificial organs to…
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From Galileo to Snowflake Bentley: Using Literature to Teach Inquiry in Middle School Science
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In this article, the authors create new possibilities for using award-winning literature to teach science. Paired texts, or two texts that are related conceptually, are used to integrate science and literacy standards.…
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Making a Mini-Submarine: An open-ended investigation with positively buoyant results
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A minature submarine is a fascinating toy that sinks and rises in a container of water. They make excellent teaching tools for illustrating the concept of density and buoyancy. In this article, students are challenged…
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In Praise of Performance-Based Assessments
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Performance-based assessments are tasks conducted by students that enable them to demonstrate what they know about a given topic. The difference between this type of “test” versus the traditional method is that students…
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On Clickers, Questions, and Learning
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The purpose of this paper is to review the procedures used to help students become learning victors. Specifically, this paper will discuss the process used to integrate classroom-response-system technology and question-…
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Guest Editorial: In Search of Science for All
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An opinion piece about the issue of inclusion in the elementary science classroom.
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Recitation sections are led by a graduate teaching assistant (TA). Introductory biology is often the TAs' first recitation teaching experience, and the TA receives little guidance on how to direct the section. In this…
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