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The Science Buddies program pairs a seventh-grade life science class with a second-or third-grade class in a yearlong partnership of science adventures. Over the course of the year these dual-grade learning groups work…
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Research and Teaching: Helping Students Succeed in Introductory Science Courses
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The author measured the reliability of introductory biology students’ claims regarding lecture attendance, help session attendance, and reading assignment compliance. In all areas, students’ reported behaviors were…
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During the semester, the author found that students became more and more comfortable with the use of "Post-it Notes”—they became a tool much as their pens and pencils were tools. Some students would make Post-it Note…
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Every Day Science: August 2008
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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The Benefits of Scientific Modeling
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When students are engaged in scientific modeling, they are able to notice patterns and develop and revise representations that become useful models to predict and explain—making their own scientific knowledge stronger,…
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Productive Questions: Tools for Supporting Constructivist Learning
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The six types of productive questions—attention-focusing, measuring and counting, comparison, action, problem-posing, and reasoning—enable teachers to create a bridge between activities and students. A teacher's own…
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Transporting Students Into Thin Air: Using Science to Enhance Reading
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The Into Thin Air unit, based on the book by Jon Krakauer, was designed as an interdisciplinary unit for a small group of academically gifted sixth-grade students. It included hands-on, minds-on activities that would…
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Science Sampler: Catapulting into technological design
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Unleash your students' interest in technological design by implementing this exciting, hands-on activity into your science curriculum. In this activity, students explore levers by designing and building a working…
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Issues In-depth: Inside the rainforests of the sea—Coral reefs and their endangerment
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For a science teacher, studying coral and coral reefs provides an opportunity to present numerous scientific concepts in an integrated manner. The concepts of radial symmetry, biodiversity, symbiosis, interdependence,…
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An Integrated Instructional Approach to Facilitate Inquiry in the Classroom
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In this article we provide an approach that integrates the Know-Learn-Evidcence-Wonder (KLEW) instructional teaching strategy within the 7E learning-cycle model to help teachers immerse students in a range of inquiry-…
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Science Sampler: Frugal equipment substitution—A quick guide
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Is your school on a shoestring budget? If so, learn how to s—t—r—e—t—c—h it further by using the amazingly clever, economical substitutions shared by a veteran teacher in this article. This quick guide will help…
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Because eighth-grade curriculum standards focus in part on systems analysis and graphing, a lesson was created to enhance students’ analytical skills with the introduction of a type of graph, the node graph, which can…
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Why is the Earth's core hot—is it still heating, or now cooling? Is there any evidence that all elements with an atomic number greater than lithium’s have been formed by nuclear fusion in stars? Find the answers…
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This article features an activity-based science course for elementary education students. The course uses a thematic approach that naturally integrates chemistry, physics, and Earth science with activities and themes…
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Instead of having students read about biomes in a textbook, why not have them become expert biogeographers? Once students have learned what a biogeographer does through an on-line search, they will take on the role as…
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