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Online Concept Maps: Enhancing collaborative learning by using technology with concept maps
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In the early 1990s, the University of West Florida and IBM Latin America investigated establishing telecommunication links among schools. This arrangement—Project Quorum—included public and private schools throughout…
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Science in the Toilet: The Flush of Learning
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Of the many possible technologies available to highlight the uses of science in everyday activities, few are more ubiquitous or more humble than the toilet. However, this much-used and much-overlooked appliance…
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Science Sampler: SSSNOW Project—Helping make science cool for students
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In the atmosphere or on the ground, snow provides students with unique opportunities to discover winter weather patterns. Traditionally, when students study weather, it is limited to the collection of data one would see…
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The Impact of Science Fiction Films on Student Interest in Science
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Science fiction films were used in required and elective nonmajor science courses as a pedagogical tool to motivate student interest in science and to reinforce critical thinking about scientific concepts. Students…
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Editor’s Note: Record Keeping in Science
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Records show others what data you have collected and under what conditions. Without records, patterns escape notice. Records also provide accountability and allow someone else to replicate or analyze your methods.…
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Project SunSHINE: A Student-Based Research Program
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This successful middle school program has students use technology to conduct their own weather investigations. Students design a research question focusing on ultraviolet levels, then collect data on local weather…
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The Green Room: What's in Your Trash?
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Each year, Americans generate 250 million tons of waste, recycle or compost about 33% of it, and dispose of most of the rest in landfills (EPA 2009). Though recycling has increased in the United States since 1980, waste…
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Libros de Ciencias en Espanol (2007)
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From eye-catching introductions to planets, animals, food, and the senses for the very young, to little-known aspects of dinosaurs, to the importance of food chains, these recently published books in Spanish are sure to…
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Grading in mass enrollment, introductory labs can easily consume a large amount of the instructor's time. This article features the "streamlined" contract grading scheme which has many potential advantages, including a…
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Teaching Critical Thinking Through Media Literacy
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In this article the author introduces many engaging media-literacy lessons that educators have developed, piloted, and evaluated.
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Scope on the Skies: Solar explorations
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Even though there is no change of season during January, we have just passed the December solstice, it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are 147,100,000 km (91,403,702 mi.) from the Sun. This is in contrast…
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Every Day Science Calendar: February 2010
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This monthly feature contains facts and challenges for the science explorer.
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This article describes a novel approach to evaluating students in a seminar-style science course. The approach involves students in the design of the assessment instrument and a defense of their own performance using…
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This interdisciplinary unit weaves art and science together to help students appreciate the importance of recycling. In this engaging activity, students collected items worthy of recycling from home, and with the help…
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Summing It Up: Teaching summary writing to enhance science learning
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Students can learn to recognize information that is most important to the author of a science article or book by using repeated references and generalization. This strategy—designed for college reading classes but…
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