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Since the majority of the content standards related to weather focus on forecasting, elementary students often spend a lot of time studying cloud types, fronts, storms, and using a barometer to read air pressure.…
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Science Sampler: Growth Potential
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Students will enjoy carrying out this exciting and challenging research project that combines science with computers and mathematics to investigate how polyacrylate animals change in size over time when placed in water…
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Idea Bank: The Human Population Game
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The future of civilization and the biosphere depend partly on what is accomplished in the classroom today. Population, resource use, and population’s impact on the environment are often studied separately and passively…
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As instructors of young people, we have come to look beyond unflattering fashions, unfortunate piercings, and unbelievable hair to the people beyond. Misinterpreting a resting face, however, is a more insidious problem…
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Learn about a take-home science program using science sacks prepared by parents. Together students and parents perform these science investigations at home.
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The Prepared Practitioner: Central Limit Theorem
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Statistics have been an important part of science since Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study heredity in the 19th century, if not before. Everyday life is filled with statistics—about sports, the stock market, weather…
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A teacher adapts the format of the show What's My Line? for a unit on famous scientists and inventors. The project consists of a five-paragraph essay, an oral presentation in clue form, and a visual aid. For the oral…
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In this problem-based learning activity (PBL), students embark on a science trek to answer the question “Where is the science in my neighborhood?” The project serves as an excellent review of science curriculum in…
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Methods and Strategies: Responding to the Need for Intervention
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This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue talks about six easy steps to prime students for mastery of science concepts.
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Favorite Demonstration: Structure—Function Lab in a Bag
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This hands-on activity stimulates students to consider the close relationship between structure and function. This inquiry-type lab can be done as a group or cooperative learning experience using simple kitchen tools.…
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Science Sampler: When do girls lose interest in math and science?
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To determine when girls lose interest in math and science, the authors surveyed female students in grades 4 through 8 in several school districts in southwestern Ohio to try to answer three questions: (1) Do girls stop…
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Science instructors sometimes avoid inquiry-based activities due to limited classroom time. Inquiry takes time, as students choose problems, design experiments, obtain materials, conduct investigations, gather data,…
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, find out how writing physics poems can be fun and helpful, how a simple cookie can illustrate percent…
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Sharpen students' experimental design and observation skills with the help of gastropods. This article describes a five-day activity that incorporates guided and inquiry-based learning. Students spend some time…
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Is Inquiry the Answer? Using action research to analyze student performance and opinion
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Action research is one of the most informative methods of investigating issues of concern within the educational community—it not only increases awareness of a particular issue but also allows students to discover…
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