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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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To teach writing to science students, we designed a collaborative learning community linking students in biology and English courses in author-editor relationships. This article describes the project to date:…
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“Watch out, the stove will burn you,” “Ooh, ice cream headache!” Students construct their conceptions about heat and temperature through their own intuitions about daily life experiences. As a result, misconceptions can…
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Energy is what makes things move, light up, and radiate warmth—energy makes things happen and makes our lives easier, too. But despite the importance of energy to every aspect of our lives, many Americans are not…
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Idea Bank: Astronomy for Students With Sensory Impairments
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The Space Exploration and Experience (SEE) Project and Yerkes Astrophysics Academy for Young Scientists (YAAYS)—both at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin—are designed to promote…
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While there may be a strong human instinct to try to teach, how to teach is not instinctive—it’s habitual—and this leads to very different implications for the classroom and teacher preparation. College classroom…
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The experts address the following question in this month’s column: How do fireflies get their light power?
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In the spring 2000 semester, elementary education preservice teachers at Penn State Harrisburg designed and implemented a long-term, interdisciplinary, inquiry-based project. Several students chose to collect baseline…
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Developing Problem-Solving Skills of Students Taking Introductory Physics via Web-Based Tutorials
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Science teaching and learning can be made both engaging and student-centered using pedagogical, computer-based learning tools. The authors have developed self-paced interactive problem-solving tutorials for introductory…
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Research and Teaching: Using Action Research to Improve Teaching and Student Learning in College
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An action research approach was used to examine revisions made to the design and delivery of a freshman zoology laboratory section. Because action research involves iterative cycles of planning, acting, observing, and…
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Help slow the growth of landfills with strategies found in this month's insert provided by Keep America Beautiful, Inc.
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Putting Assessment to the Test: Tips for designing standards-based tests
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During the last decade significant changes occurred in the way we teach and assess learning. Both the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, 1996) and the suggestions from Benchmarks from…
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Purposeful questioning encourages visual literacy during a lesson on cells. In this article a teacher uses a cutaway diagram to teach visual literacy skills to enhance students' science inquiry experiences.
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Tried and true: It's all done with mirrors
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Reflect the magic of science using the following activities to spur an interest in the study of light and its associated properties with the use of mirrors--these activities are designed to startle the senses! With a…
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