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Editorial: No Time for Complacency
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What accounts for our citizens' apparent lack of interest in scientific careers? The National Science Foundation (NSF) and other agencies have pumped tens of billions into science education improvement at all levels,…
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Success with Investigations: Strategies for facilitating student science investigations
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Classroom strategies for the teacher help strengthen student investigative skills and processes. In this article, the author discusses common weaknesses associated with students’ performance on science investigations,…
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The course in this article is a first-semester general chemistry class with a large-enrollment lecture section of students with minimal background in chemistry at The University of Texas at San Antonio—a designated…
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NSTA initiated the student chapter program in 2001 to help preservice science teachers at universities and colleges gain access to professional development opportunities and provide support as they enter the profession…
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Science Festival Fun: A Teaching and Learning Experience
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Unlike a science fair that consists of static displays of science investigations completed by students, a science festival includes interactive science exhibits that students share with one another (Parker, 1996). As…
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The Adventures of the Bucket Buddies
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Through Bucket Buddies—a collaborative online project—elementary students from more than 150 schools in 33 states and 6 countries have taken samples from local ponds and teamed up to answer the question: Are the…
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Awardees from the 2002 Craftsman/NSTA Young Inventors Awards Program relate the stories behind their inventions. The article also lists the 2002 regional awardees including, the name of the invention; the inventor; the…
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Science Sampler: Assessment for All
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There are many ways of assessing students and the work they do, and many ways of getting them ready for those assessments. Special needs students provide an extra challenge to educators because they have difficulty…
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The Case Study: Professional Development Cases
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A professional development case in college science teaching bridges the gap between educational theory and practice. A good case poses an interesting dilemma involving instructors, students, and administrators. Case…
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Editor's Roundtable: Drawing conclusions
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Science Sampler: Analogy of the cell project
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In this inquiry-based science project, students compare the makeup of a cell to an everyday working unit or system and create a three-dimensional object that represents their analogy. In addition, students select five…
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Point of View: Dual Enrollment—Postsecondary/Secondary Partnerships to Prepare Students
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The last decade has seen an explosion of interest in dual enrollment. In dual enrollment, high school students are permitted to take college courses and, if they pass them, earn college credit. Sometimes, as in the case…
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Point of View: So Tell Me Again--Who's Locked in the Chinese Room?
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To succeed in our classes--especially science classes--students must be physically and intellectually present most of the time. They must be able to solve problems with minds and with hands and with others. They have…
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Science 101: Why are oceans salty and lakes and rivers not?
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For starters, lakes and rivers do contain salt, just not as much as the oceans. A large portion of those salts and minerals washes downstream into other rivers, or through the outlet stream or river of a lake, and…
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Editor’s Corner: Working Wages
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Because of teacher retirement and other factors, our nation will need almost a quarter of a million new middle and high school science teachers over this decade (NSB 2006). If we want to recruit and retain the most…
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