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Exploring the Science Framework
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Learn how the practices of the Next Generation Science Standards promote scientific literacy.
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Brain Awareness Week Open House
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Brain Awareness Week (BAW) has been established for people of all ages to learn about the brain, nervous system, and current research and to celebrate the brain's wondrous workings.
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Editorial: Where There's a Market, There's a Way: Student Entrepreneurs—Filling a Niche in Education
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The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Using Light and Color to Search for Astronomical Origins
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Using telescopes in space and on the ground for innovative research, NASA’s Astronomical Search for Origins program explores the universe at a variety of wavelengths. To help communicate the results of the Origins…
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Recognizing Excellence: Bayou-tiful Data
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This column features profiles of award-winning science programs and teachers. This month’s issue discusses a summertime teacher research experience on the bayou that gives way to a water-quality-monitoring lesson for…
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Student time on task is the most influential factor in student achievement. To maximize time on task, teachers need to make decisions about the systems they install in their classroom well before any students enter the…
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Idea Bank: Performance-Based Assessment
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Performance-based assessment is appropriate to use in a project-based, problem-based, or inquiry-based science classroom because it is consistent with the way students learn—by investigating a question or problem using…
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Interactive Word Walls: Transforming Content Vocabulary Instruction
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The authors implement an interactive word wall to support vocabulary development in science students, especially ELL students.
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Green Science: Building for the Future
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This first Green Science column will focus on the environmental features of NSTA’s new headquarters, the John Glenn Center for Science Education. The new building, which is currently being designed, will be constructed…
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Artificial Sanity: A Case Study for a Class in Introductory Psychology
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Using the story of death row inmate Charles Singleton, who developed paranoid schizophrenia while in prison awaiting execution, this case study explores the relationship between a society’s concept of mental illness and…
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Science Sampler: Accessible reading assignments
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A few simple reading strategies, properly utilized, can be dynamic, learning techniques. Here the author describes how these strategies helped to engage a student with learning difficulties related to head trauma.
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Investigations with Wisconsin Fast Plants can make the subject matter come alive…or dead, depending on the experimental treatment. This became apparent when a university-based teacher educator and a fifth-grade teacher…
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Data Versus Evidence: Investigating the Difference
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Science teachers and graduate students have developed activities and assessment tools that begin to help students make the distinction between data and evidence. Two activities are covered in this article.
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First graders experience inquiry during a lesson on seed germination and plant growth. Although limited inquiry is used in the beginning while students are planting, once the seeds germinate, students take control!…
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Teaching Science to Students from Rural Mexico
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George Roberts has been teaching ninth-grade Earth science in Gardston, Iowa, for 10 years. This year, as chair of the Gardston High School’s science department, he agreed to have all the English Language Learner (ELL)…
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