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Racing into Physics: Using creativity and physics to design race cars
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Conceptual physics emphasizes analysis and analytical thinking skills. This article features an "Edible Race Cars" lab where students design, construct, and race their cars to learn about the concepts of aerodynamics,…
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Twin strategies of Institutes on the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics and support for faculty through minigrants are shown to be effective in stimulating college science and mathematics faculty to modify…
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Fire and Ecological Disturbance
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Misconceptions are not simply factual errors or a lack of understanding, but rather explanations that are constructed based on past experiences (Hewson and Hewson 1988). If students' misconceptions are not directly…
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The typical biometry course emphasizes statistical theory and methods, with little opportunity for students to apply statistics in testing scientific hypotheses. Early in education, students should be taught to use…
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Methods and Strategies: Thinking Metric
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Despite educators’ strong recommendation for teaching students measurement skills—and specifically the metric system—measurement continues to be among the lowest scoring mathematics content areas in the United States…
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A multidisciplinary learning community provided environmental management students the opportunity to work with students in different classes and majors to create designs for improving the appearance and environmental…
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Connecting Algebra & Chemistry: Creating a combined math and science course
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A teacher makes interdepartmental connections between the science and math departments as a step toward creating a combined science and math course. This is an important step toward reaching the primary goal—helping…
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The Early Years: Summer Science
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This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue discusses summer science notebooks.
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Scope on the Skies: "I'm Your Venus"
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue centers on Venus, the Kepler Mission, and the annular solar eclipse.
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Tried and True: Taking flight with an inquiry approach
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This paper airplane lesson has been used with sixth-grade students to introduce scientific terms and concepts that students need to know before they design and conduct their own inquiry experiments. In addition to…
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Forensic science education has evolved as an interdisciplinary science that includes medicine, chemistry, biology, and criminal justice. Therefore, multiple paths can lead to a career in forensic science. A formal…
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Extra! Extra! Learn All about It
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Communication and reporting of findings to peers are important to middle school students. One way to capitalize on students’ interests and incorporate the nature of science into the science curriculum is to have…
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The algebraic concepts and major ideas that govern Newton’s laws of motion can often be a challenge for the majority of ninth-grade students. Therefore, to make learning these concepts less task-oriented and more…
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This inquiry-based investigation focused on shadow measurement and the apparent movement of the Sun throughout the school year. Students would collect data about their shadows weekly. Toward the end of the year,…
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Home Connections: Objects in Motion
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These activities, which are designed for students to try at home, focus on Newton's First Law of Motion. A simple explanation of the law is provided along with two demonstrations of inertia.
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