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Idea Bank: Adding Inquiry to Cookbook Labs
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank presents a new approach to add inquiry to two common biology labs: Environmental Effects on Catalase…
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Applying Age-Old Physics: Using ancient inventions to teach modern physics concepts
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Despite daily use of computers, cell phones, and sound systems, students are fascinated by the technology that our ancestors once used to survive. Ancient inventions are great tools for fostering understanding of…
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Elementary Science Study Groups
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Initially, the main purpose of the science study group was to make science teaching and learning more exciting and available. This goal has been accomplished. The continuing goal is to maintain the excitement—members…
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Creating torn paper biomes integrates science and visual art in a performance task that assesses students' knowledge of the characteristics of the biomes of the earth. Students who have difficulty communicating their…
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Supporting Right-Brained Thinking
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In his book, A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink champions the benefits of right-brained thinking: creativity, flexibility, empathy, and meaning. He stresses the need to not only be logical, but also aware of emotion; to not…
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This article offers an opportunity to nurture the lifelong learner deep inside with a summer reading list that will allow you to renew, reflect, and refresh. NSTA Recommends reviewers share what they're reading this…
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Methods and Strategies: I Wonder...
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how "I Wonder" boards serve as a springboard for scientific investigations.
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The Isle of Navitas: Planning for Energy Use With Web GIS
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Engage in authentic scientific practices using geospatial technologies to plot an island's energy resources.
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Directed Student Inquiry: Modeling in Roborovsky Hamsters
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In this inquiry-based activity, Roborovsky hamsters are used to provide students with an opportunity to develop their skills of analysis, inquiry, and design. These hamsters are easy to maintain, yet offer students a…
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Career of the Month: Avalanche Researcher
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Many of us enjoy snowboarding, snowshoeing, and other winter sports at the season’s first sign of snow. But what about when a massive amount of snow crashes down the mountain, gains speed and size with every second,…
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Editor's Note: Happy New Year to All! (January 2003)
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In this issue we are highlighting science activities that go beyond the classroom and involve parents and folks in the community with elementary school boys and girls. Most parents, grandparents, neighbors, and…
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At the end of their oceanography unit, fourth-grade students are challenged to create an imaginary creature that is well adapted to live in an ocean environment. They present their new species at a "marine biology…
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No matter what I tell my students, they insist it’s safe to go to the tanning salon. What are the real effects of tanning beds?
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Who would have thought that a primary level science camp would spark exciting science programs for the more than 1,000 elementary students in one school district in Stephenville, Texas? This article details the…
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Teaching From a Global Point of View
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Teachers of all disciplines . . . need to recognize the importance of science in the curriculum not simply as science per se, but in how it relates to the social, political, and economic spheres of human endeavor . . .…
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