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Science Sampler: Sending in the Pinch Hitter
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Even the most conscientious teacher will eventually need a substitute. The classroom can continue to function smoothly and effectively when substitute planning is viewed as another important aspect of preparation. Like…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Moving My Body
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The human body is amazing! This month's trade books help students understand their growing bones, muscles, and joints while engaging in some investigations to help them become aware of their bodies and how exercise…
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E-mail–Based Formative Assessment: A Chronicle of Research Inspired Practice
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This article describes an e-mail–based formative assessment program, which was established to encourage students to revisit first-year general chemistry material regularly in a low-risk and supportive environment.
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These inquiry-based projects ensure that students use higher-level thinking skills to improve the community and investigate global and environmental issues. Each project is connected to the previous year's to give…
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While most schools offer different types of camps, a growing number are offering summer science camps. This provides a way for children to enjoy the summer while learning science at the same time. One school looked to…
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The National Science Education Standards states: “Conducting scientific inquiry requires that students have easy, equitable, and frequent opportunities to use a wide range of equipment, materials, supplies, and other…
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Editor’s Note: Literacy Skills
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Our science and literacy issue is always one of the most popular issues of the year, and we’re betting this jam-packed issue will be no exception. Why? There are many probable reasons. Many elementary teachers are more…
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This article suggests how to organize a research unit and to plan effective deadlines.
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Focusing on Function: Thinking Below the Surface of Complex Natural Systems
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Structure-Behavior-Function (SBF) thinking considers the different levels of a system in terms of structures, behaviors, and functions, and how these are interconnected (Goel et al. 1996). This article presents an…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Kitchen Chemistry
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The kitchen is a wondrous place for children to make observations and explore the basics of chemistry. Seize the opportunity and help students build process skills while cooking or baking. Almost everything we eat and…
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A Virtual Tour of Plate Tectonics
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This article describes how teachers can use Google Earth to support inquiry instruction in both general and Earth science classrooms.
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Teaching Expository Text Structures
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Many students enter high school unskilled in the art of reading to learn from science textbooks. Even students who can read full-length novels often find science books difficult to read because students have relatively…
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Physics Careers Web Site: Expanding College Women’s Perceptions of Physicists’ Lives and Work
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Twenty college women used a Physics Careers Web site that aligned profiles of the college’s physics alumnae with the curriculum of introductory physics during an experimental version of the course. Twenty-one college…
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Students, faculty, and advisers must have ready access to current, accurate, and useable information about programs and curricula (Commission for Undergraduate Education 1995). College and university publications (e.g…
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The Fish Kill Mystery: Using Case Studies in the Middle School Classroom
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Case studies are an excellent method for engaging middle school students in the current work of scientists. Students learn to think like scientists as they decide how to investigate the dilemma presented in the case…
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