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Helping Students With Learning Disabilities Succeed
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Students with learning disabilities (LD) frequently take general education science classes because their disabilities are very mild. Sometimes, however, it is difficult for students with LD to succeed in the classes and…
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Tried and True: Splints and gases
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. In this month’s issue learn how chemical reactions carry much more impact when experienced firsthand rather than through pictures in a…
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This article includes multidisciplinary investigations based on the adventures and journals of Lewis and Clark. Science activities include plant collection and identification, nature observation assignments, sink/float…
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Your students successfully completed a lab session, correctly filled in all of the worksheets, and collected the required data. Yet, as a science teacher, you still find yourself wondering—what did my students actually…
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Commentary: Building on Strengths
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An opinion piece about being positive with students.
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Although the analemma derives from days when advances in technology meant building a more accurate sundial, the hands-on process of incrementally constructing a model of the analemma is still a worthwhile educational…
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"Say when." That expression, usually reserved as an inquiry by a solicitous dispenser of party libations, is apt for the serious case writer. In both cases it is meant to find out how much is enough. How much liquid…
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Turning the Potential Liability of Large Enrollment Laboratory Science Courses Into an Asset
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Data sharing among multiple lab sections increases statistical power of data analyses and informs student-generated hypotheses. This article describes how to collect, organize, and manage data to support replicate and…
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An opinion piece about undergraduate teaching where the author shares inner guidelines derived from more than 40 years of teaching in hope that they may be useful to others.
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A kindergarten science curriculum develops life science investigations in and around school.
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After studying linear motion and learning the basic concepts involved, (inertia, force and motion, friction), middle level students can apply their learning to nonlinear situations. Using toy tops is one way to teach…
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Primary Students and Informational Texts
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Anyone who has spent time looking into science books with young children has no doubt experienced the endless questions that the information and visuals in the books can stimulate. Can snakes climb trees? How do frogs…
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Science Sampler: Learning from amphibians
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Create an exotic frog nursery in your classroom to engage sudents in the process of scientific inquiry, benefit the scientific community, and the natural world simultaneously. This project will expose students to the…
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Exploring Experimental Design: Using hands-on activities to learn about experimental design
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This article presents the basic concepts of experimental design through a series of hands-on activities. This allowed students to focus on one or two fundamental concepts during each activity, reducing the likelihood…
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Green Science: Investigating green—Creating surveys to answer questions
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Being green means different things to different people. Some suggest that being green means saving energy, not wasting paper towels, going solar, harnessing wind, using less fertilizer, or buying products that are…
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