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Teacher's toolkit: Measurement stations
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This issue of Science Scope debuts Teacher's Toolkit, a new column featuring an array of tips, strategies, and resources for teachers addressing instructional issues in science. Over the course of the school year, the…
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Research indicates that interdisciplinary instructional strategies help students make meaningful connections among various subjects through asking questions, making predictions, and thinking critically (Borich 2000).…
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Collecting data and analyzing the results of experiments is difficult for children. The authors found a surprising way to help their third graders make graphs and draw conclusions from their data: digital photographs.…
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Science Sampler: First-class inquiry
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In this scientific inquiry-based activity, students explore how variables in a first-class lever, specifically arm length, position of the fulcrum, and placement of the load, affect the effort needed to lift the load.
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Scope on Safety: Administrators say the darndest things!
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Science teachers are licensed professionals and therefore are held to a higher standard by the court when it comes to “duty of care” of students and fellow employees. Remember, most courts today rely on the teacher to…
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Enhancing Science Kits With the Driving Question Board
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This article describes a tool to increase student engagement, clarify connections between activities, and align to standards.
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As teachers, one of our most important responsibilities is to help students develop dynamic and useful views of science. Using current issues to create learning experiences can help generate student interest in science…
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Research and Teaching: Assessing the Effects of Prior Conceptions on Learning Gene Expression
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Gene expression is a highly theoretical concept that requires advanced reasoning skills to comprehend. Often, students receive instruction but fail to replace prior conceptions and thus do not benefit. To investigate…
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The Green Room: School Gardens
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A School Garden fits nicely within the guiding principles for sustainable schooling. As the sustainability coordinator at St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, this column author's most fulfilling, inclusive, well-…
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In this study, the authors examined students’ perceptions of their grades throughout an introductory biology course. Since large majorities of students prefer open-book exams (Moore and Jensen 2008); they sought to…
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Svithjod, Stories, and Songs: Rewriting Earth Science in Creative Ways
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Explore Earth science concepts through the language arts. In this article, creative writing and observation exercises help students to improve their writing skills, increase their understanding of Earth science, and…
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Science Sampler: Helping students write scientific explanations
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Constructing explanations is an important scientific practice that brings meaning to all that scientists do. But just because it’s important to scientists doesn’t mean it’s going to be important to students. However,…
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Although assessment is tradtionally applied at the end of a unit, evaluating students during instruction can help to eliminate misconceptions and deepen understanding. This 5E sequence on the phases of the Moon…
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This project-based science unit, focused on a local environmental issue, created a great deal of interest and learning, as well as drew in the support of the community. The authors designed and implemented the project…
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A New Way of Looking at the World
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The Global 200 represents a new science-based approach to setting priorities for conservation. At its core is a simple concept: If we conserve the broadest variety of the world’s habitats, we can conserve the broadest…
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