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The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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To achieve a truly multicultural curriculum, the entire composition of lessons must be re-envisioned to embrace the global community. Principles are recommended for designing and implementing culturally responsive…
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Nurturing the Nature of Science
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Historical stories of scientists provide an excellent opportunity to help students see that science is indeed a human endeavor and demonstrate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. A number of…
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Syracuse University initiated a comprehensive Teacher Assistant (TA) program called the Future Professoriate Project—a project designed to prepare future faculty members for their teaching role. The goal is to transform…
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Science Sampler: Narrowing student investigations
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Learn how to teach students science by using single-lesson investigations. This technique complements longer-term investigations by allowing students to practice narrowing questions and to plan and conduct their own…
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Patent Attorney-in-Training Peter Brown
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From money-making inventions we think of in the middle of the night to scientific breakthroughs discovered in labs, patents help us protect our original ideas from copycats. With our ideas—legally dubbed intellectual…
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This selection includes thoughts from the Field Editor of Science and Children related to better organization. Some of the suggestions in this issue are not intended for a single teacher but, a single teacher may lead…
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Myths, Misconceptions, and Misunderstanding: Polar Misunderstandings: Earth's Dynamic Dynamo
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This column identifies and corrects misinformation in the classroom. This month’s issue discusses the movement of Earth's north and south poles.
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Boulder Creek runs literally in the backyard of Donnelly Elementary School and happens to be on the EPA list of impaired water bodies. Therefore, a unique opportunity for problem solving opened the door to an exciting…
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One Fish, Two Fish, Redfish, You Fish!
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The recreational fishing activity presented in this article provides a hands-on, problem-based experience for students; it unites biology, math, economics, environmental policy, and population dynamics concepts. In…
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Shedding Light on the Inverse-Square Law
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One way to show students that they can “do” science is to have them use an observable event to generate a relationship that can be used as a predictive tool. If that relationship can be quantified using “curve-fitting”…
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Scope on the Skies: Getting a crew into orbit
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Despite the temporary setback in our country’s crewed space exploration program, there will continue to be missions requiring crews to orbit Earth and beyond. Under the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, NASA should have…
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Safer Science: Rise of the Allergens
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses allergens in the laboratory.
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"Tiptoe Through the Tulips" was the theme song for kindergarten through second-grade students at Ashland City Primary in Ashland, Tennessee who participated in Journey North, a free, online educational program that…
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Sonic Hedgehog: A Good Gene Gone Bad?
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In this case of a baby born with the genetic condition holoprosencephaly, students explore the “Sonic hedgehog” gene, signal transduction, and the ethics of body and tissue donation. The two-part assignment involves…
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