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Editor’s Note: Plants and Their Partners
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Plants are a ubiquitous piece of the elementary science curriculum. By the time they reach middle school, students have often grown enough bean seeds to feed a small city. Often these lessons don’t “grow” deeper ideas…
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Teachers are constantly challenged to create a setting where students can engage in comprehensive investigations. Using computer power supplies to power the EC lab demonstrates our commitment to this challenge—to…
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Assistive Technology (AT) helps a person with a physical, cognitive, learning, or speech disability perform tasks that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. There are hundreds of specialized AT devices on the…
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Scope on Safety - Safety contracts: Let it be written, let it be done
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Student safety contracts are an important tool for teachers to use in helping to prepare for and maintain a safe working environment. They also serve an additional means of showing that the teacher was working in good…
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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Students' Ideas in Science
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Formative assessment probes can help teachers find out what students' ideas are before teaching lessons and use the information to adjust instructional strategies. This article defines formative assessment probes,…
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Investigating Future Climate Scenarios
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Identify which locations are most at risk for a global warming–induced rise in sea level.
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Instant Integration: Just Add Water
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An instructional unit incorporating some of the Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) hydrology protocols provides an excellent way to connect academic learning, scientific inquiry, multiple…
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Connecting Biotechnology and Society
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A recombinant DNA activity allows students to consider the benefits and costs of genetic engineering. Laboratory activities in biotechnology can be adapted to provide unique opportunities for students to explore socio-…
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Integrating Pharmacology into the Organic Chemistry Course
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Many nonchemistry majors are unaware of the unity between chemistry and biology and tend to separate the two disciplines conceptually. In a course designed to emphasize health-related issues using a pharmacological…
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Editorial: The Interrupted Case Method
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There are many ways to tell a tale. This issue of the journal demonstrates that point as it devotes itself once again entirely to case studies. One particularly useful type of case study is the Interrupted Case Method…
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Perspectives: A (Mis)Understanding of Astronomical Proportions?
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Misconceptions are ideas formulated by children as they try to make sense of the world. By focusing on students’ ideas, using the strategies suggested in this article, teachers can help students move toward more…
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Designed to help nonscience majors learn about motion, forces, and kinetic energy, students reconstruct a rear-end car accident that takes place in an intersection outside their classroom. They then explore the…
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For over a decade, we have used science fiction films to build interest in and awareness of real science at both the college and precollege levels. Star Trek: The Next Generation series discusses many scientific topics…
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Lights, Camera, Action . . . It’s <em>Science Friday</em>!
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Science Friday’s motto “Making Science User-Friendly” was the authors’ inspiration, as was its format for a segment on the morning broadcast at Forest View Elementary School. Patterned after National Public Radio’s…
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Dig Into Mining Reclamation during Earth Science Week
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Mining reclamation is defined as the process of returning mined land to productive and beneficial use. How this is accomplished depends on the type of mine, its location, and the degree to which the land was disrupted…
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