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Fires, Floods, & Hurricanes: Is ENSO to Blame?
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Scientists have associated the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon with extreme climate events such as flooding in California, droughts in Australia, fires in Indonesia, and increased hurricane activity in…
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Student Performances in Various Learning Protocols
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A comparison was made between students' overall performance, as measured by overall grade, in different teaching and learning protocols. The data gathered indicate that students' conceptual learning is enhanced by the…
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Developing and Implementing an Interdisciplinary Origins Course at a State University
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A truly interdisciplinary course was successfully developed and taught that presented an overview of the historical sciences with an emphasis on the nature of scientific inquiry and its relationship to other ways of…
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Scientists commonly use transects as a method of gathering information about a particular area, including studying the distribution of organisms across an area or seeing transitional changes between habitats.…
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Measuring Student Understanding in a Portfolio-Based Course
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In this study, the authors examined student portfolio-based assessment that has been implemented in an upper-level biology course. The two sections of the portfolios analyzed were students' written reflections and…
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Idea Bank: Literature Circle Roles for Science Vocabulary
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The study of science is often vocabulary intensive. An analysis of high school chemistry, biology, physics, and Earth science textbooks showed that approximately 1,000 to 3,000 novel science terms are contained in each…
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NSTA's 2011–2012 president sends a message to science educators.
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Science Shorts: Energy in Motion
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Children experience forces at work while on the playground, in gymnasiums, and in toy stores. Scooters, baseball bats, basketballs, and jump ropes all need pushes or pulls to make them move. When objects change shape as…
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Commentary: The Cost of Teacher Turnover in Math and Science
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Personnel turnovers can create instability for students, schools, and school districts. What are the costs of these changes? What are the causes of these changes? What information can research contribute to…
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The IMSCI model for scaffolding writing in language arts can be used with a science notebook. To illustrate how this model can be used in an early elementary classroom, the authors descirbe a six-week unit for first…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Classroom management à la Goldilocks
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Classroom management is a difficult balancing act. Like Goldilocks, teachers should sample all the classroom management techniques available to them to find the ones that are “just right” for their classroom. Therefore…
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Two university educators and a sixth-grade teacher collaborated to create and implement a five-day engineering unit that incorporated both mathematics and science concepts and hands-on learning. In this series of…
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Learning Together: Understanding and appreciating students' cultural backgrounds
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Understanding and appreciating students’ cultural backgrounds facilitate learning in a Department of Defense (DoD) science classroom. Diversity in the science classroom is both a challenge and an opportunity—a challenge…
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Editor's Roundtable: A Tough Climate for Teachers
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Science Sampler: Bringing scientific inquiry alive using real grass shrimp research
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This lesson was developed for middle school students using actual research on grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) to illustrate the process of a scientific investigation. The research was conducted at Savannah State…
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