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Scope on Safety: Bringing Safety Into Bloom
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses greenhouse safety.
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Cosmetic Chemist Amy Wyatt
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Where do you turn when you have a bad hair day or need to cover up an unwanted blemish? From hair gels to concealers, cosmetic chemists use science and creativity to develop products that make us look and feel good. As…
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Providing opportunities for students to grapple with collecting and organizing data, struggle with how to represent and communicate ideas emerging from the data, and consider the alignment of these ideas with the…
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Fostering Preservice Teachers’ “Nature of Science” Understandings in a Physics Course
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In this paper, the authors examine an algebra-based physics course designed for preservice teachers and explore how the course integrated two pedagogical strategies to bridge the gap between inquiry-learning experiences…
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Safer Science: Safety in Uncharted Waters
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the safety of on- and off-campus independent study programs.
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Taking Engineering Design Out for a Spin
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How a simple whirligig design challenge can highlight both inquiry and design.
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Science teachers face many hurdles in their quest to train young minds to understand the precise planning, thinking, and actions required for success in this field of study. Read about the GLOBE (Global Learning and…
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Shampoo, Soy Sauce, and the Prince's Pendant: Density for Middle-Level Students
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This article describes a series of activities that are designed to clear up common student misconceptions regarding the difficult concepts of mass and density at the middle-level. Concept development, problem solving,…
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Earth's Most Important Producers: Meet the Phytoplankton!
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Students learn about single-celled, plantlike organisms called phytoplankton, which are the base of nearly all marine food webs. During the lesson students construct and use a phytoplankton net and create a…
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Refocusing Natural Resource Management
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Achieving scientific literacy requires students to understand how science is applied in the real world. A capstone class at Virginia Tech focuses on the role science and scientists play in the process of natural…
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Internet Courses: Are They Worth the Effort?
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To investigate the effectiveness of an Internet-delivered course, one group of biology students learned the course material employing Internet resources while a second group attended a traditional, lecture-based class.…
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Engaging science investigations form the foundation of a science-centered school year. This article describes four activities that keep students engaged in science throughout the year.
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This article is an interview protocol that you can use to gather information about your students’ ideas about animals. Specifically, you will be able to determine which organisms your students think are animals and…
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Scope on Safety: Building safety into student models and projects
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This column shares safety information for your classroom. In this month’s issue the author discusses the basic safety guidelines for students engaging in model building and other hands-on projects.
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Career of the Month: An Interview with Microbiologist Dale B. Emeagwali
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Although invisible to the naked eye, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites can be found everywhere, from the air we breathe to inside our favorite foods. Microbiologists investigate how these organisms exist and…
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