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Teaching Through Trade Books: Cloud Watchers
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Weather is a topic in science that is applicable to our lives on an everyday basis. The weather often determines what we wear, where we go, and what we do. This month’s column focuses on clouds and the part they play in…
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Reflections on Earth—Remote-Sensing Research from Your Classroom
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The Smithsonian Institution, with support from Honda, has developed a program entitled Reflections on Earth to provide resources for remote-sensing education. Through this program, teachers and students have access to…
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Increasing Student Participation in Science Fair Competitions
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Discover how to engage students from a population that is often underrepresented in science fairs.
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From Aristotle to Today: Making the History and Nature of Science Relevant
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Students connect to science in multiple ways. For some students, learning how real people have developed and defended their scientific ideas makes science relevant and interesting. Tracking the changes in scientific…
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Tech Trek: Up-to-the-minute meteorology
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Up-to-the-minute weather information that is easily available on the Internet can be a great tool for complementing a traditional study of meteorology.Of course, students should still be taught how to gather their own…
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Many people think of earthworms as small, slimy creatures that belong in the garden. To teachers, however, earthworms are delicate animals that can help young students develop important science-process skills such as…
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Predict, Observe, and Explain (POE) centers can be used in the classroom to provide simple and focused activities that promote scientific inquiry skills. This article provides instructions for setting up a POE center,…
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Navigating the Active Learning Swamp
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The authors surveyed 29 fellow faculty by asking them to define active learning, to rate how effectively different teaching techniques contribute to active learning, and to list the three teaching techniques they use…
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The author used a repeated-measures design to compare students’ exam performance after their participation in a cooperative concept-mapping workshop in contrast to their exam performance after more traditional…
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In our students’ lifetimes, as many as a quarter of the plants, animals, and microorganisms on Earth may become extinct, primarily due to deforestation. . . As we introduce these concepts to our students, we should not…
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Inside the Science Fair: The Judge's Perspective
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Science fair judges provide secrets to a successful science fair. These insights can help inform both science research programs and student performance at all levels of science fair competition.
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An Undergraduate Journal Club Experience: A Lesson In Critical Thinking
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In an effort to better prepare undergraduate students to read and critically evaluate scientific literature, a journal club experience was introduced into a university's bachelor of science curriculum. As a result of…
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Peer leaders play a key role in the success of the peer learning teaching method. In this article, we discuss the effect team learning has had on peer leaders in chemistry and biology classes over the course of four…
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Science for ELLs: Rethinking Our Approach
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Many educators feel ill-prepared to meet the academic needs of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. As educators, we strive to guarantee science education opportunities for all students.…
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A parachute drop is a fun way to engage students in science while sneaking in a lesson on average velocity, wind resistance, and gravity. The following hands-on activities ask students to first build and then test…
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