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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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Scope on Safety: A Science Lab by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet—But Would It Be as Safe?
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This column focuses on safety information for your classroom. In this month’s column the author discusses the definition of laboratory.
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Tried and True: Peanut butter and jelly science
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Are you feeling frustrated with the quality of your students' writing or lack there of? If so, head straight for the peanut butter and jelly. Students will respond to this fun filled activity as they learn the…
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In this activity students are assigned occupations that rely on specific minerals. To obtain the minerals they need, each student must trade a service or mineral to another worker. Teachers can show students real-world…
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Don't Settle for Imitation Laboratory Assignments
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Science courses often offer structured laboratory exercises that do not provide students with a thorough understanding of how to conduct scientific research. Westfield State College’s Animal Behavior course requires…
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Favorite Demonstration: Using Dice to Explore the Consequences of DNA Mutations
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Working collaboratively, students explore the effect of different types of DNA mutations using dice. The exercise provides students with a tangible way of visualizing how mutations may contribute to genetic diversity…
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At the entry level, clear and effective writing is essential to the teaching, learning, dissemination, and progress of science. Improvement in writing occurs largely through individual effort, practice, and feedback.…
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Active learning promotes higher-level reasoning, and it can be achieved in large classes without wholesale changes in class format. Applicable methods include in-class mini-investigations, robust multiple-choice exam…
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